smoke signals

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Monday was wash day because you bathed on Saturday for Sunday services, 
and couldn't
do such things as laundry on The Lords Day.

We are too far removed from our past to see the obvious sometimes.

Tom Cosgrove

NW Mailing List wrote:

> Ron that is an interesting question.

>  

> I expect the answer is that Monday was wash day because Sunday was the 

> only day that industry didn't work (after about 1900) and the smoke 

> and dust from the various industries would have settled.  Monday was 

> probably the least dusty/smoky day.  That would mean it was not a 

> train effect, but a general industry effect.

>  

> The rythym of a coal camp was Monday was wash day, ironing took place 

> on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Going to town for grocery shopping was 

> generally on THursday.  Clean the house and bake on Friday.  Go to 

> town on Saturday with the family for general shopping. Sunday was kind 

> of a day off after church depending on the church you went to.  Some 

> people went ot church in the morning and evening.

>  

> That schedule changed over the years, but Monday always seemed to be 

> wash day.

>  

> One variation to that schedule that I am aware of was every Tuesday 

> (in the 1940s) three foreign ladies (including my great aunt) would go 

> to town to buy a weekly supply of liquor at the State store before 

> they started the weekly ironing.

>  

> Alex Schust 

>

>     ----- Original Message -----

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>     *Sent:* Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:46 PM

>     *Subject:* Re: smoke signals

>

>     Is it true Mondays was always wash day for the women, because of

>     the least ammount of trains , therefore smoke, traffic? Ron H

>

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>     <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>>/* wrote:

>

>         *There was a practice in existence long before Lucius

>         Beebe known as "smoking meets".    One location where

>         it was observed was on the long tangents of the Suffolk

>         & Carolina (later NS Railway's Suffolk Division).  The

>         engine crew of the superior train would cause the loco-

>         motive to produce copious amount of black smoke and

>         the inferior train seeing "burning of Rome" effects on the

>         horizon would clear accordingly.   "Smoking meets" was

>         suspended on windy days and after sunset.  It was a

>         practice mangement never condoned.

>                                                        Harry Bundy*

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Tom Cosgrove
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