Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1917 — No Clothespins In China. [ARTICLE]

No Clothespins In China.

The American housewife carries around a big bag of clothespins every Monday. The Chinaman twists two Clotheslines together and thrusts the corners of the washing between ths two strands, where they are held as firmly as clothespin ever held them, says the “Christian Herald." The introduction of clothespins will not help the Chinese, and even such revolutionising products as the sewing machine, the electric light and the phonograph, which give to Americans leisure, evenings of good reading and grand opera at home, may mean longer hours of toil for the Chinese, or unwholesome pleasures when the work Is finished,