Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1917 — GETS $68 A WEEK WASHING [ARTICLE]

GETS $68 A WEEK WASHING

Pennsylvaniawfrl Gave Up Stenography to Take up More Strenuous Form of Earning Living. Norristown, Pa. —Quitting her position as stenographer to go to the washtub, Miss Georgianna Cuthbert Is making S6B a wee£< and she handles only five do it, according to her testimony in the equity action in which she is defendant and Mrs. Marie Lusson, her neighbor, plaintiff. Miss - Cuthbert informed Judge Swartz that one family alone paid her S3O, another sl2, two $9 and a fifth $8 a week. She gets the business, she says, because she does not use bleach or acids in cleaning them.. “None of the clothing I handle Is soiled, only mussed,” she said. Mrs. Marie Lusson seeks to prevent Miss Cuthbert erecting a. laundry in the, rear of her lot In'Ardmore, Pa. Mrs. Lusson says that a laundry there would be undesirable, unhealthy and In violation of building restrictions. In the testlmony'experts said u laundry would he unobjectionable; that there would be no dirt, no noise, no smell, and, in fact, no reason why this woman should not be permitted to proceed with the laundry, which is to be a small one.