Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1914 — Electricity Supplants Charwomen. [ARTICLE]

Electricity Supplants Charwomen.

Machinery has now invaded the field of charwoman, says the London Dally Mirror, for an electric scrubbing machine has just come into use. It is a little pushcart, supplied with electric power through a cable connected with a lamp socket

The operator simply pushes it over the marble flobr and controls Its operations by levers on the cart handle. A set of brushes revolve on the floor, while a little stream ot water trickles down through them from a tank. Powdered soap is fed to the water In easily-regulated amounts. As the cart Is pushed ahead the dirty water is swept up to a pipe and A little pump sucks It up from the floor.