Dear Sue, Thank you soooooo much for posting that to the group! From my point of view it served to put that bit of memories that I wrote into the focus that I was really aiming at. Appreciate the hard work that went into the everyday lives of your ancestors--whether it was in the 1900s or the 1700s. In the 1930s and 40s we knew we had it good because we had electric wringer washers. Nonetheless, washday was always "Blue Monday" or was referred to as "Washday Blues." The housewife worked hard all day long getting the laundry washed, out on the line, brought back in again, sprinkled or dampened and and making certain all the beds were made up for the night. Many housewives' magazines of the time featured easy to prepare recipes and labeled them especially for Monday. Did I complain about the hard work? Not that I can recall. Did my mother or did Grandma? Not that I know of. Nonetheless, I can guarantee that when the women went to bed on Monday night, there was a world-wide epidemic of "headaches!" :-D vee