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What Diantha Did

CHAPTER XI
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One laundress, with machinery, can wash for thirty-five, (its only six a day you see), and the amount is regulated; about six dozen a day, and all the flat work mangled.
"In a Girl's Club alone the cook has all day off, as it were; she can do the down stairs cleaning.

And the two maids have only table service and bedrooms." "Thirty-five bedrooms ?" "Yes.

But two girls together, who know how, can do a room in 8 minutes--easily.

They are small and simple you see.

Make the bed, shake the mats, wipe the floors and windows,--you watch them!" "I have watched them," the mother admitted.


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