25/47 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. 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. |