Originally Posted by
jcrow
My mom had one and use to iron all our sheets and other things. It was huge!! I remember her sweating while she worked. She didn't seem to enjoy it. Now I wonder "why did she iron our sheets?"
She ironed the sheets, as did almost everyone in the period before we got no-iron cottons. The sheets of cotton wrinkled badly unless dried quickly on a line on a hot windy day. My mother did the same in the 30s and 40s.