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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 343178" data-attributes="member: 1246">The Clothes Line. Do you remember?  The clothes line....a dead give away. Do the kids today even know what a clothes line is?For all of us who are older, this will bring back the memories. THE BASIC RULES 1. You had to wash the clothes line before hanging any clothes.Walk the length of each line with a damp cloth around the line. 2. You had to hang the clothes in a certain order and always hangwhites with whites and hang them first. 3. You never hung a shirt by the shoulders, always by the tail.What would the neighbors think? 4. Wash day on a Monday...........never hang clothes on the weekend or Sunday for heaven's sake! 5. Hang the sheets and towels on the outside lines so you could hide your 'unmentionables' in the middle. 6. It didn't matter if it was sub zero weather.............clothes would 'freeze dry.'  7. Always gather the clothes pins when taking down dry clothes. Pins left on the line was 'tacky'.  8. If you were efficient, you would line the clothes up so that each item did not need two clothes pins, but shared one of the clothes pins with the next washed item. 9. Clothes off of the line before dinner time, neatly folded in the clothes basket and ready to be ironed. 10. IRONED?????????? Well, that's a whole other subject.  A POEMA clothes line was a news forecastTo neighbors passing by.There were no secrets you could keepWhen clothes were hung to dry. It also was a friendly linkFor neighbors always knewIf company had stopped on byTo spend a night or two. For then you'd see the "fancy sheets"And towels upon the line;You'd see the "company table cloths"With intricate design.The line announced a baby's birthTo folks who lived insideAs brand new infant clothes were hungSo carefully with pride.The ages of the children couldSo readily be knownBy watching how the sizes changedYou'd know how much they'd grown.It also told when illness struck,As extra sheets were hung;Then nightclothes, and a bathrobe, too,Haphazardly were strung.It said, "Gone on vacation now"When lines hung limp and bare.It told, "We're back!" when full lines saggedWith not an inch to spare.New folks in town were scorned uponIf wash was dingy gray,As neighbors carefully raised their brows,And looked the other way.. But clotheslines now are of the pastFor dryers make work less.Now what goes on inside a homeIs anybody's guess.I really miss that way of life.It was a friendly signWhen neighbors knew each other bestBy what hung on the line!</blockquote>

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