Medan flickorna säkert glatt dansa , jag väntade och väntade på förbaskad el att komma något så att jag kunde järn mina kläder , men hör och häpna ! Bara för att jag ville att det skulle , gjorde el inte komma på alls . Om något sådant hände i Amerika , kraftbolagen säkert skulle ha tillräckligt med klagomål . Anledningen till att de inte slår på elen förrän sent i Finland är att en man som var roboten en gång medan du arbetar med trådarna , så nu vänder de strömmen helt för säkerheten först när de räkna det behövs inte .
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1930 - STILL MALAX
Front row, fifth, fourth and second from Right, Olga, Wilma, Tyra Malm (from their U.S. Train Ride) |
We were now really waking up to the fact that we were really
in Malax, and also we knew that we had plenty of dirty clothes that had
accumulated during our concert tour, so up out of bed we got (early at 10
o'clock) and proclaimed washday. As I
once said, we had plenty to wash, so it took us nearly all morning, but the
clothes finally were out on the line drying.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, the girls left for Vasa. (They went to a dance in the evening and had
a great time and I missed it. About
twelve of our gang were there. Oh! Well! There is more yet to come.)
Malax Store, 1930. Marie Malm Took snapshots on the trip |
While the girls were no doubt gaily dancing, I waited and
waited for the darned electricity to come one so that I could iron my clothes,
but lo and behold! Just because I wanted it to, the electricity didn't come on
at all. If anything like that happened
in America, the power companies certainly would have enough complaints. The reason they don't turn on the electricity
until late in Finland is because a man was electrocuted once while working on
the wires, so now they turn the power off completely for safety first when they
figure it is not needed.
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