From our entertainment editor Qwerty Lee Dickinson:
National Laundry Day is coming up on April 15th – so it’s just about time for some good clean fun! Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed – at her request) established April 15th as National Laundry Day in the mid-1800s, and information about the history of the holiday is HERE.
National Laundry Day was President Dwight David Eisenhower’s favorite holiday, and his wife, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, picked up the issue with her very successful national program called “I Pledge to Launder.” Children from around the country mailed in laundry detergent box lids to the White House as they helped their mothers with the weekly laundry. “I Pledge to Launder” has been the most successful program taken up by a First Lady ever.
Pictured below: President and First Lady Eisenhower bask in the glow of positive press about Mamie Eisenhower's effective national program, "I Pledge to Launder."
National Laundry Day is coming up on April 15th – so it’s just about time for some good clean fun! Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed – at her request) established April 15th as National Laundry Day in the mid-1800s, and information about the history of the holiday is HERE.
National Laundry Day was President Dwight David Eisenhower’s favorite holiday, and his wife, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, picked up the issue with her very successful national program called “I Pledge to Launder.” Children from around the country mailed in laundry detergent box lids to the White House as they helped their mothers with the weekly laundry. “I Pledge to Launder” has been the most successful program taken up by a First Lady ever.
Pictured below: President and First Lady Eisenhower bask in the glow of positive press about Mamie Eisenhower's effective national program, "I Pledge to Launder."
| Frances Crank, the Senior Corporate Solutions, Tactics, and Response Specialist for the National Association of Middle School Educators, asserts that National Laundry Day is one of our country’s two most important dates in a year, the other being the National Day of Good Hygiene on the second Saturday of October. Dickinson also founded the National Day of Good Hygiene, and this day was set to honor of his sister, Pythagoria, a middle school PE teacher. Pictured at the right: Frances Crank, Senior Corporate Solutions, Tactics, and Response Specialist for the National Association of Middle School Educators Dickinson’s now-classic poem “Polish all your Possessions” (below on the left) accentuates the poet’s creed of cleanliness and clean laundry. The poem also inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem “Peril as a Possession” (below on the right). |  |
| By Emmett Lee Dickinson: Polish all your Possessions ’Tis Good to scrub Freshness regenerates Humanity So use the Tub – Begin your part So that Human Nature increases A clean Desire. | By Emily Dickinson: Peril as a Possesssion 'Tis Good to hear Danger disintegrates Satiety There's Basis there -- Begets an awe That searches Human Nature's creases As clean as Fire. |
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