. The Saturday evening post. hdays have been in vogue since Adamdonned his first shirt, but even yet you oftenhear it said—Oh, anyone can do thewashing. And anyone could do the washing the oldway, when laundering consisted chiefly oftying the family bundle in the nearest brook,and leaving the cleansing to the ripplingwaters. And most anyone could do thingsthe rub-and-scrub way. But we know today that fabrics, like peo-ple, have their peculiarities — and for todayslaundries modern methods of meeting theserequirements of your clothes have been de-veloped. Take the peculiaritiesof woolensas an in
. The Saturday evening post. hdays have been in vogue since Adamdonned his first shirt, but even yet you oftenhear it said—Oh, anyone can do thewashing. And anyone could do the washing the oldway, when laundering consisted chiefly oftying the family bundle in the nearest brook,and leaving the cleansing to the ripplingwaters. And most anyone could do thingsthe rub-and-scrub way. But we know today that fabrics, like peo-ple, have their peculiarities — and for todayslaundries modern methods of meeting theserequirements of your clothes have been de-veloped. Take the peculiaritiesof woolensas an instance. Woolens—our blankets, flan-nels, underwear, and sweaters—are composedof the same elements as our fingernails andhair. They soften, shrink, and felt unlessthey are washed in the right way, in the rightwater, with the right soap. Here is the method that modern laundriesuse—it is this methodwhich The Laundry-owners National Asso-ciation prescribes forwoolens, and which isin use in modern laun-dries everywhere:. Prepare bath by running into washer ten inchesof water in inside cylinder. Adjust temperatureto 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Add neutral soap andrun washer until suds are formed. Place woolensin washer and run 15 minutes. Remove woolensto spinning basket (to withdraw water) and spinfor one minute after full speed is obtained. Dis-charge suds from washer, and run in fresh waterof same temperature as used for suds (use ther-mometer) ; replace woolens in this bath, and rinsethree minutes. Place woolens in spinning basket,and run for two minutes after speed is at ordinary room temperature. (Woolensshould not be dried at high temperature.) Your laundress can hardly be expected toknow these numerous details—it has requiredmany experiments,and long study by special-ists to work them out. It is this practice,based on knowledge, which distinguishesprofessional laundering from the domestic. There are other similarly exact methodsfor the laundering of color
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