1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FAR]\JER. 



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WHEELER'S PATENT WASHING MACHINE. 



"We have said a good deal in the Farmer, we 

 confess, about plows and pitchforks, hoes and 

 harrows, mowers and reapers, and various other 

 machines and implements which tend to expedite 

 and make easy the hibor of the farmer. But to 

 help her who bears up the other end of the yoke, 

 and without such even draft every thing goes 

 askew, we have said but little, because, indeed, 

 we did not know what to say. But now, Eureka ! 

 we have found it. Half of the Washing Days 

 knocked out of the year ! the women good-natui-ed 

 because their work is done rapidly and easily, the 

 children well-cared for, and the husl)and's face 

 beaming with smiles in consideration of snowy 

 shirt-bosoms and dickeys, and his wife's unusual 

 elasticity of spirit. As Sancho invoked Ijlessings 

 on the man who invented sleep, so do we on Mr. 

 Wheeler, for his machine. 



"Kub, scrub, rub, scrub, 

 ScoU, scold away" — 



there's nothing of this about our domicil ??ow ,- 

 but bless the women — we mean Mr. Wheeler — if 

 one is a little late at breakfast on a Monday morn- 

 ing, he would scarcely know from appearances 

 that such an operation had been thought of by 

 any of the fiimily for a month. 



The cut above is a truthful illustration of this 

 machine. The clothes are put in at each end of 

 tlie tub, and the turning of the crank impels the 

 dasher forward and backward, giving a complete 

 fulling-mill stroke, so that the clothes are not 

 rubbed at all. We know that the machine hag 

 the following merits, from actual experiment and 

 observation : — 



1. It saves a third of the time. 



