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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 7 (October 1, 1934)

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Life is a laundry for Pressing Problems. Fortune's flat-iron smoothes us smartly or smarts us smoothly. Life's pressing processes include a multitude of methods, such as the X-press, the De-press, the Suppress, the In-press, the Com-press, the Re-press, and flatty degeneration of the heart. When the iron mentors our soul we wilt or we won't according to the state of our starch. Some buckle and bulge, others get a gloss that won't wear, the languid lie limp and lustreless, and a few are a-frayed and dis-made and pass their daze covering a multitude of skins. But life is pressing and the game goes on:—

Collars and shirts, into the pails,
Made ones and frayed ones, and
shirts without tails;
Into the starch pot and out on the line,
Life in his laundry rejoices, “all
mine!”
“Heat up the flat-irons—and see they
are hot,
And let us get busy with this little
lot.”
Some boast a texture to stand any
shock,
Others look limp like a sorely soaked
sock,
Some shriek and wriggle as Life gets
to work
And finds out the places where rude
wrinkles lurk.
Life does ‘em all and his iron never
errs,
But sometimes a shirt is so worn that
it tears.
Sometimes a collar lets go with a
shriek
As the iron finds a spot that has always
been weak.
’But Life knows his launders and
wots without doubt
That the laundry unerringly finds a
shirt out.