THE NEW TALE OF A TUB; OR, THE NOT-AT-HOME SECRETARY AND THE LAUNDRESSES.
"The Women are crying out for the protection of the Factory Acts, which has hitherto been denied them, and which the Home Secretary declines to pledge the Government to support."—Daily Telegraph, Friday, June 12th.
London Laundry-woman, to her Tub-mate, loquitur:—
They tell us the Tub is humanity's friend, and that Cleanliness is of closest kin
To all things good. By the newest gospel 'tis held that Dirt is the friend of Sin.
Well, I'm not so sure that the world's far wrong in that Worship of Washing that's all the rage;
But we, its priestesses, sure might claim a cleanly life and a decent wage!