If only we can establish it on a scale to let us give employment to at least as many women as we have working now! That is what I want to hear of.

But if we wait for a great rival steam laundry to start ahead of us, we shall be beaten and have to depend on the charitable sentiments of rich people to support the Institution.

And that won't do.

So it's a serious question with us to think of taking the initiative: for steam must come.

It 's a scandal every day that it doesn't while we have coal.