While the men were out in the streets fighting their battles - this is a drawing of the gunfight at the OK Corral - the women were at home fighting battles of their own. I'm not certain which had the better deal.
Ladies, this is an original steam iron. Now picture this in your mind: she has a wood-burning kitchen stove - so it's hot ALL the time, radiating heat ALL the time. She fills the reservoir with hot water from the tea kettle that's always on the stove, places the iron on the stove top to get it hot. She sets her ironing board within arms reach of the hot stove and proceeds to tackle that basket of laundry, one piece at a time. How long she stood there, between the hot stove and the ironing board, in her floor length dress buttoned up to the neck for modesty, long sleeves, and petticoats, swinging that five pounds of steaming hot iron back and forth is anyone's guess, but I think I'd rather be facing down the Clantons at the OK corral!
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