Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1889 — Why John Washes. [ARTICLE]

Why John Washes.

There are no laundrymen in China. No linen is worn there. The rich use silk and woolen undergarments, and the poor wear woolen or cotton. A% starching and, ironing are unknown, the female servants do all the laundry work. The reason of the great number of laundrymen here is that when the Union Pacific railroad threw hundreds of Chinamen out of employment they cast about for something to do, and as there was a great demand for washerwomen, and a leant supply of them in the West, tho Mongolian turned his attention to her trade. He learned it so quickly and so well that he stuck to it, and made so much money that the calling soon became popular. Gradually the laundrymen came Eaat, and no dty. and now few villages of any size in the whole country are without a Chinese laundry.