The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 1 (May 1, 1930)

Pioneer of the Rag-wash Movement

Pioneer of the Rag-wash Movement.

Is it strange that their adventures undermined their fibre after three or four sulphurous immersions and excursions, so deeply that they came to the parting of the ways, and parted all ways at once in more ways than one, and were only fit to cut up for cigarette papers.

I claim no great credit for the rag-wash idea; like all such discoveries, it arose from a natural human indisposition to subject the physiology to unnecessary strains and distresses.