Serve the ice-cream on wooden plates covered with lace paper doilies, and give as favors tiny wooden household articles such as dolls' rolling-pins, clothespins, barrels, washtubs, spinning wheels, and the like.
"Entertaining Made Easy"
Emily Rose Burt
When she went round to try to interest the women in the getting up of little gatherings that were to brighten the parish once a fortnight during the winter months, they shook their heads over their washtubs and told each other after she had gone that it was because she kept two servants.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Seats were improvised by means of boards stretched across inverted washtubs.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates