The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-08-18
CORRESPONDENCE.


This department of the NEW NORTH
WEST is to be a general vehicle for ex-
change of ideas concerning any and all
matters that may be legitimately dis
cussed in our columns. Finding il practi-
cally impossible to answer each cores
pondent by private letter, we adopt this
mode of communication to save our
friends the disappointment that would
otherwise accrue from our inability to an
swer their queries. We cordially invite
everybody that has question to ask, a
suggestion to make, or a scolding to give
to contribute to the Correspondents
Column.
Mrs. c. o. s.: We wage no war upon
any particular maker or vender of any
particular drug, nostrum, tOoth-pick,
flea powder, grease extractor, patent
soap or what not. If you have been be-
guiled into purchasing "a three dollar
bottle of useless washing fluid' we are
sorry, but we can't heipit. OF course we
/ had preferred that you sent us the three
dollars for the NEW NORTHWEST, but
that was your own business.
Mrs G.. a. G.: We have a friend who
sorts her clothes, and thoroughly soaps
the white ones, and places them in a
boiler with cold water enough to cover
them, and then lets them gradually
strike the boiling point, taking care to
stir them occasionally to allow the soap
and water to come freely in contact with
the dirtiest parts Of the clothes. She
lets them boil ten or fifteen minutes and
then empties them into a tub, adding
enough of cold water to enable her to
handle them. She says that clothes
thus boiled i'm dirt will come clean with
very little rubbing, and We know that
her clothes are exceedingly white and
clean. After the clothes are removed
from the boiling suds and rubbed they
can be boiled again if desirable, but our
friend only -rinses them thoroughly
when she says they are always clean
without further trouble. Anything that
will Tighten woman's work at the
wash-tub is an absolute necessity.
George $: The Portland skating rink
is place where roller-skating is prae-
ticed as a favorite amusement of chill
dren of all ages. The skates are mount
ed upon rollers, and we overheard a
= young lady describing the performance
who said it went like "greased light
ming" You must judge for yourself how
fast that was.
a country girl: Buffalo band alpaca
is dead black goods, very fine and du-
rable, and very fashionable. 1t ranges
i'm price from 75 cts. to 81 p per yard
There is no new style of millinery out al
present.
Susie c.: The sample of blue - you
r sent us is good in quality, but the cOlol
is very poor. 1t would be pretty if il
were durable, but the smallest drop o
water or even your breath will ruin it
Better get blue alpaca that will no
cost half so much and look just about a.
pretty, besides being durable as well a
comparatively cheap.
Hattie: Weddings in the churches ar,
: not SO fashionable as formerly. The non
, sense which is usually displayed upor
/ wedding occasions is disgusting to {
t woman who knows what marriage
= means. The most important era of {
: young lady's existence should not b,
: wasted upon needless parade or undu,
g solicitude over personal adornment. TIL,
e rules of society are the opinions o
n mother Grundy.
Susette: There is no French fIowe
'e manufacturer in Portland. There is on
in San Francisco; but the materials ar
shipped from France in a prepared state
the principal work done upon the flow
ers in San Francisco being to arrang
the prepared materials.
a Other letters will be answered ne1
Ia week.