If You Happen To Know Of Anybody Coming Out Here, And So Many Do, And
You Would Like To Give
A - - a present, I wish you would kindly send
him a few table-cloths, dusters, towels, and pairs of sheets;
In short
any linen would be most acceptable as we are so short. How these men
managed when the linen went into Winnipeg to be washed, and was
sometimes kept a month ere it came home, is a mystery. These extra men
living in the house have none. They facetiously describe their ideas
of dirt by saying, if the table-cloth, however filthy it might look,
when flung against the wall didn't stick, it went on for another week;
if it stuck, was then and there consigned to the dirty-linen bag.
Since we have been here we have instituted a weekly wash, every
Monday and Tuesday. E - - and Mrs. G - - preside at the tub all
day, and even then our sheets and towels often run short.
Every colonist ought to provide himself with two pairs of sheets,
half a dozen towels, two table-cloths, and a few dusters; and as
those things and his wearing apparel, if in use six months
previously, are allowed into the country free of duty, they might
as well bring them over as everything of that sort in Winnipeg is
so fearfully dear I do not like buying anything there. We sent for
some unbleached calico the other day, worth twopence-halfpenny;
was charged twelve cents or sixpence a yard.
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