How I love the smell of clothes dried outside in the sunshine and a soft breeze! Especially bed linens; no perfume exists that can beat that scent on a pillow. It’s a pleasure most American children have never experienced, but it was many years before my mother had the luxury of an automatic clothes dryer.
Dryers are not a necessity, even in highly-developed countries, as our visits to Japan and Europe have shown me. And yet when the weather is grey and drizzly, when children come in from playing in the snow with their winter clothing dripping with icy water, if one has better things to do with one’s time than iron clothes, or when one would simply like to have clean clothes available in fewer than twenty-four hours, to be able to toss the wet items into a machine and have them warm and dry in an hour is a great blessing.
