Hannah might expend her energy in flat-ironing, and Josiah could turn the mangle.

The idea conjured up quite a pleasant domestic picture.

I recommended the laundry.
"On the following Monday, Josiah wrote to say that he had bought the laundry.

On Tuesday I read in the _Commercial Intelligence_ that one of the most remarkable features of the time was the marvellous rise taking place all over New England in the value of hotel and bar property.

On Thursday, in the list of failures, I came across no less than four laundry proprietors; and the paper added, in explanation, that the American washing industry, owing to the rapid growth of Chinese competition, was practically on its last legs.