Those Black Diamond Men a Tale of the Anthrax Valley
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It is the proper form for the miner s wife to be on hand to prepare her husband s bath. She must bring his best clothes; see that the water in the wash tub is heated to the right temperature; carry away his dirty clothes when he has washed; have his dinner hot when he is ready or his pipe if he does not choose to eat. Then she goes to work to scrub the floor and clear up the house. It is little wonder that her hus band, having dressed himself in his best clothes goes off to the saloon to escape... from the house cleaning process. It was not surprising then that the mothers did not attend the meetings for them at the kinder garten, or that they did not alw r ays succeed in getting the children off in the morning with clean hands and faces. But to their credit let it be said that they gen- SCHOOL IN GRAHAM S PATCH 221 erally did come clean. Of course the teacher still needed the basin and brush for emergency cases, but the influence of the school was shown in the fact that each day they were less needed.
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