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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03

be ironed. In almost every laundry in
the city to-day shirts are still ironed in
the old-fashioned way, by hand, though
shirt-ironing machines have been in
vented. But the collars and cuffs are all
ironed now by machines in the laun-
dries. A hollow cylinder of steel, heat
ed from the inside, revolving both on
its axis and backward and forward, is
made to pass over the linen again and
again. The collars and cuffs rest dur
ing this operation on many thicknesses
of felt, which serves as an excellent bed
for them.
Z Finally the cuffs are placed upon a
half-revolving cylinder which turns
them into proper shape, while similar
machine exercises similar function as
regards the collars. In turning" the
collars great care has to be taken not to
crack the seams. In order that this
may be avoided the seams had to be
slightly dampened. Up to within few
months this operation of dampening the
seams had to be done by hand, but an
ingenious Continuance Just invented &C.
complishes this mechanically.
at last all pieces of the 'lot" are
again taken to the assorter. They get
to the assorter at different times, of
course, some of the pieces getting done
quicker than the others. But the as
sorter, as soon as he gets the first piece,
at once begins his work of making up
the bundles of the customers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
women, even as lately as when our Re-

women, even as lately as when our Re-
public was in embryo
When warfare was the most honorable
pursuit of men, and education and it's
means were possessed by but few. and
when civilization. as we now regard it,
was in chaotic state, women's opinions
on any subject were of no value, and
were never required. But change has
come over the face of things.
Gradually the means of education
have become more plentiful and in the
same ratio woman has attained an in
fluence over men which is vet growing
steadily day by day.
Many of the old common law disabil-
tiles of women have been removed, and
as men consider soberly and calmly the
advanced state of society they begin to
see the uselessness of many antique
rules still burdening our judicial sys-
tenn. Statutes, however, are constantly
being enacted to do away with these.
1t is good work, itshould be done care
fully and with deep thought; but when
the time is ripe for fresh blow, ID
should be struck without hesitation in
the interest of justice.
The time is not far distant when won
en- will enjoy all the rights now pos
sessed by men, and when, whether mar
ried or single. they will compete with
the other sex for superiority in all
things.
Society will have to be educated up
to this point. and every innovation upon
established customs Will meet with ridi-
cule, but the cause iseright, and, like
Banquo's ghost. it will not down!
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03

goods as much, either. May be you don't
believe that, but it's so. Nowhere in
the whole modern laundry process are
goods subjected to any such wearing
and rasping treatment as the old style
of rubbing them on wash-board with
the hands. People really don't know
how we do up clothes at all"
The increase in the laundry business
has not only been rapid, but it has
created large establishments for the
manufacture of laundry supplies and
machines used in the laundry business,
These machines, many of them, are
costly, and they are, all of them, in
genious labor-saving contrivances.
Pictures of some of the principal ma
chimes used in the business are here
given, and their use illustrates pretty
well the modern laundry process.
The laundry receiving depots where
goods can be ''left to be called for" to
which allusion has been made, are most
~ those connected with the big steam
laundry establishments. These depots
are scattered in all sorts of places all
over the city. The favorite places the
laundrymen select are gentlemen's fur
nishing stores. The packages OF goods
to be laundered are left at these places
and taken up by the laundry delivery
wagons Tie wagons bring the pack
ages back to the depot when the laun-
drying is completed, and the owners
call and get them. The delivery wag-
ons also call at the homes of the regu-
lar customers of the laundries. Each
laundry keeps book containing the
names of its regular customers and the
day and the hour at which each custom
er wants "his laundry" called for. Each
driver of each delivery wagon has, of
course, his regular daily route. The
laundries will, as rule, call for and de-
liver goods all over the city to regular
customers. Some of the big laundries
have several sets of deliveries" one
set of delivery wagons for such por-
tion of the city and one set for another
the different sets not all reporting at
a central branch, but having centers of
their own, which, in turn, communicate
with the main offices.
When the package of goods to be
washed finally gets into the laundry the
person who receives it-who is usually a
good-looking young woman writes
plainly on it the name and address of
the person to whom it belongs, as well
as the time when it must be 'done"-if
such time is specified she also makes
out the ticket" which contains the
list and number of the different articles
in the package. If no time for the work
is specified by the customer-and none
usually is the person leaving the
laundry ought to expect to get it again
in three days, that being the time in
which laundry work is usually dome"
by the irst-class shops. The packages
are allowed to accumulate indiscrim-
inately in the laundry until sufficient
number-called ''lot"-is on hand.
The lot varies in size, according to the
capacity Of the laundry, from twenty
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
wRINGER-

Eve pieces to two hundred. Then a
marker" puts the lot number on all the
packages. Next, book-keeper puts
down in regular form in log ledger
the name and address of the customer,
the number of each kind of the different
articles, and the mark or peculiar India
ink stamp that is on each piece of goods.
If a piece of goods is found unmarked
an appropriate mark is put upon it and
the record made.
The goods then go to an ''assorter."
He puts the shirts, collars, cuffs, ETC.,
each by themselves. He has large
table with board fence" around it in
front of him, and underneath a hole in
the center of this table hangs big bag
into which the assorter throws the col
lars and cuffs. he puts the shirts in a
big basket, and re-examines each piece
of goods to see if it is properly marked.
Finally the ''lot" is sent to the wash
room. Throughout the progress Of the
cleaning process the different pieces Of
the lot are kept together and the lot
comes out as it goes in. Thus identifi-
cation of the goods is systematized. and
the time Of delivery is made certain.
First the goods are marked. They are
not rubbed over board or rasped by a
machine. They are placed in queer
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
WOMEN TO BE PROUD OF.

DIR. AIMEE RAYMOND, daughter Of that
brilliant journalist, the late Henry j.
Raymond, editor of the New York
Times, is successful practicing physi-
clan in New York City.
Miss HELEN LEAH REED. whose sue
cess in winning the Sargent prize at the
close of her studies at the Harvard An
mex has made her name we'll known, has
become literary editor of the Boston
Daily Advertiser.
Mrs. C. MILLION has won the prize OF
ESQ offered by DIR. Oatison, Of Chicago.
for the best biography of distinguished
woman. Mrs. Million is Swede, and
chose for her subject her countrywoman.
Fredrika Bremen.
THE people of Troy, n. Y, ere talk
ing Of a suitable memorial in honor Of
Mrs. Emma Willard, who began the
higher education of women in this
country Mrs. Willard's seminary in
Troy had far-reaching influence.
Miss ANNIE WENTWORTH BAER is the
first woman to join the Dover. N. H.
Historical Society. She is a lady of fine
literary accomplishments, has done con-
siderable local historical work, and viii
be a valuable member of the society.
AYEAE ago Mrs Emily Kenper. IL
D., was not allowed to nlatriculate at the
Law School Of the University Of New
York. Now Mrs. Kemper has a law
school of her own, and the council Of the
University by unanimous vote decided
to admit women to membership
Miss FRANCES A. CALDWELL, who is
well-known at Hartford and other places
in Connecticut where she has been
teacher, has recently received the APP
pointment of superintendent Of colleges
in New Grenada, S. A, by the Grenadian
Minister at Washington. Miss Caldwell
is finished English scholar. and speaks
Latin. French and Spanish. She will
make her home at Bogota, the capital OF
New Grenada
IT is stated that Mrs John A. Logan,
with the capable assistance OF Miss
Frances Willard, Mrs Ellen Foster and
Miss Kate Sanborn, and with sufficient
capital, is about to open a normal school
for domestic servants where thorough
training in all household duties will be
given, diplomas bestowed and situations
found for competent pupils, while ths
idle and incompetent Will be discharged
Miss ALLIE Three, of Finland, who
is so pleasantly remembered as one OF
the international Council at Washing
ton, has started workmen's kitchen,
where three hundred workmen are taxing
their meals every day. There is a read
ing-room attached. She has also START
ed monthly Journal for womans rights
in the Swedish language. Tho State
also furnishes her with money for q
building containing large library, 8
reading-room, school for workmen's
children, that Is, q kindergarten, and .
home for babies when their mothers ara
| at work. There will also be room for
workingmen ana women to have mees>
ings and music in the evenings
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
In WOMAN'S BEHALF.
WOMAN THE BETTER WORD.

Give us that grand word Woman once again.
And let's have done with 'lady."
Ones q term
Full OF fine force-strong, beautiful and firm,
Fit for the noblest use OF tongue or pen
And ones word for lackeys.
One suggests
The mother, wife and sister; one the dame
Whose costly robe, mayhap. gave her the name,
One word upon its own strength leans and rests;
The other minces, tiptoe.
Who would be
The perfect woman must grow brave OF heart
And broad OF SOUL to play her troubled part
Well in LIES drama, While each day we see
The perfect lady, skilled in what to do
And what 10 say, grace in each tone and act
CTS taught in schools, but needs serve native
tactJ,
Yet narrow in her mind as in her shoe.
Give the first place, then, TO the nobler phrase
And leave the lesser word for lesser praise.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
MODERN LAUNDRIEs.
How the Wash-Tuh's Successor
Does Our Collars and Cuffs.
Every Thing in the Cleaning Process
Now Done by Machinery - Rapid
Growth OF This Modern
Industry.

81 don't believe there was single
public laundry in this city fifteen years
ago." said city laundryman to New
York Sun reporter the other day,
''where laundering was done on a big
scale. Originally, you know. people
here who wanted their collars and cuffs
done up nicely actually sent them away
up the river to the laundries in Troy,
and thus the name Troy laundry
originated. The laundries were started
in Troy because nearly all the big
shirt and collar and cuff manufactures
were located there, and the laundries,
in the first place, were connected with
these establishments. OF course, there
are no real Troy laundries' to-day.
Even as late as seven years ago don't
believe that there were one-tenth Of the
public laundries that there are to-day.
The work used to be done almost en-
tirely by washer-women. Nowadays
the average gentleman don't want a
washerwoman to touch his collars and
cuffs or shirt. The laundries do this
work ever so much better than tho
washerwomen, and they don't hurt the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
Good Reasons for Failing.

Citizen docking up from the paper)-
What do you think of this? A plumber
in this city has failed
Wife, don't wonder. We had very
mild winter. followed by hot summer.
what hsd the hot summer to do with
it?'
81 presume he had to take ice."-N.
Y. Weekly
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
A Sensible Suggestion.

At first it seems like a humble one
to mend-but every work that is we'll
done is honorable. Elizabeth, Florence
and l are all busy women; all the day
through the click of the typewriter, the
''swish" of full pen, or the two and
two and five being added up, are about
us. When evening comes the eyes are
too tired, the fingers too weary and too
unaccustomed to holding the needle to
put darn here, mend a shirt there, or
put the loose buttons in place on coat
Now, why can not some girl who has
made-well not quite success at dress
making-be known to us? A girl to
whom the size of the trunk or the ward
robe is given with request that she
will ''straiten things?' do not know
whether false pride keeps them from
this work, but it is much better to be
a good member than to be a poor
dressmaker, and once you get your circle
of customers be sure you will be kept
busy. Florence's black skirt all fresh
ened up and mended, will sing your
praises. Elizabeth's stockings daintily
mended will tell of your deft fingers,
and the buttons sewed firmly in position
on my coat will, martial-like, stand out
and give military salute to your abil-
ity. That's one profession for women
who sew well, in which a good living
could be made. There is another
Ladies Home Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03

Have you the same teachers as last
year?" was asked of little chap who
went to school for the second term yes
terday. "Yes, they is all there None
of 'em has died yet" replied the boy
Utica Observer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03
A Bright Face.

De Smith-Don't you think Miss
Jinks has very bright expression on
her face?
Jones-I can't say that her face Ii
very bright, but there is no doubt about
her being INTERPRETATIONS Sift
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03

-Bagley-"Have you seen Jenkinson
since he returned from his fishing trip?"
Bailey-'Oh, yes; had long talk with
him yesterday" Bagley-"What did no
catch?" Bailey-''Wheppera"-N y.
Ledger.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03

Sells Doughnuts and Makes Money.
What a woman can do in her especial
line has an illustration in the case of
Mrs. ]. III. Lounsbury, of Westfield.
About siH months ago she thought that
homemade raised" doughnuts. such as
she made for her family. would prove
salable to the general public. A batch
was made and sent to one of the grocery
stores and quickly sold. The demand
for them grew apace, another store put
them on it's counter, and within two or
three weeks Mrs. Lounsbury had to en-
ploy helper. Doing her work in her own
kitchen she frequently clear five dol
lars day, and when it came to supply
ing from 800 TO LOCO doughnuts every
day the kitchen Limitation proved too
small. and she has had built in her yard
a one-story building Of two rooms, fitted
up with portable oven and range, and
now, in addition to turning out bushels
of doughnuts, she makes cakes and pies
of the homemade type, for which
large demand is already shown. One
room is reserved for salesroom, and
there she now has quite as large trade
as her products meet with at the grocery
st
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-03

Do you say it only happened so? I
can not see what you keep your Bibles
for, and the God you worship is not my
God. Your God is an autocrat and He
is so far off and so far up that the world
can not touch Him and His throne is an
eternal iceberg. My God is father,
here and now, and father will give his
child what he asks for If it is best for
him to have it. Pray about every thing
that concerns you, seculiarities as well
as spiritualities- Take to God all your
annoyances and perplexities The
crooked shall be made straight
1t is remarkable how many crooked
things are in the providence of God be-
ing made straight About thirty years
ago our National affairs were as crooked
as depraved American politics and bad
men and Satan could make them. From
the top of Maine to the foot of Florida
the Nation was red with wrath. 1t was
wrangle and fight all the way through,
and one of the mildest things that the
North and South promised each other
was assassination During this sum-
mer have travelled through New York,
and Ohio, and Illinois, and Indiana, and
Minnesota, and Kansas, and Nebraska,
and Missouri, and Texas, and Louisiana,
and Georgia, and North and South
Carolina and Virginia, and Pennsyl-
yania and I have shaken hands
with tens of thousands Of people,
and talked with men of all sec
tons and degrees, and I have to tell
you it is all peace, and in all the States
of the Union you could not now marshal
a military compsny Of hundred sol
diers to fight against the United States
Government unless you got your men
out Of the penitentiary. Did the cor.
rupt and gangrened political parties dc
this work of rectification and pacifica'
ton? No! 1t was BY Divine interposi.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-31

wooden ones is a coming reform in railroad
building. 1t is said to be more ecouomi-
cal and permanent, preventing the spread
Ing of rails.
In cases where there has been excessive
vibrations noticed with engines bolted to
beams or girders of the upper stories of
buildings, hanging heavy weights from the
bottom Of the engines has overcome the
vibration almost entirely.
An Austrian photographer has succeeded
In producing a range of colors running
from ruby red TO light orange; also vivid
French blue Green, brown, violet and
the variations of blue have hitherto eluded
him, but scientific men predict that all
colors are attainable.
When people first come to be fitted with
glasses it is said that seven of ten see
stronger by one eve than the other; in
two cases of FIVE, one eye is out of line
nearly one-half are color-blind to some ex-
tent, and but one pair of eyes in every fif-
teen is right in all respects.
The Commission in charge of the i'm
provement of the city OF Rome has I'M
earthed great quantities of lead water
pipe, each plainly stamped with the name
of the owner of the house, the year of the
plumbing, the name of the consuls OF
that year and that Of the reigning Emperor.
A naval officer has invented a process OF
making proectiles by the electric welding
process. Hitherto the Government has
| mad to bore solid metal at great cost, but
now this process is rendered unnecessary
A steel tnbe of proper length and thick
ness is welded to the head and then to the
butt of the shell, and thus what now re-
quires hours of costly labor is accom-
| plished in few moments.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-31

sufficient roots to nourish the many new
shoots that are produced on tops that have
not been cut back
By keeping the surface of the soil loose
the loss of moisture by capillary attraction
and evaporation will be partially avoided.
A loose soil, if of only an inch in depth,
serves as mulch, or covering, over the
surface of the ground, thus protecting the
roots and assisting to retain the moisture
below.
Gilt-edged butter depends for its quality
| not alone upon the breed and feed to
certain extent, but more so on the skill
of the dairyman The first requisite is
cleanliness, which begins at the stable and
ends with the packing of the butter for
| market.
If it pays some farmers to raise the
dairy COWS that are purchased by dairy
men who sell their calves, it should pay
the dairyman to raise his own cows, espe-
cially If he does SO with the aim of i'm
proving his herd.
An Australian correspondent says
| ''One of the best remedies ever found for
| foot-rot In sheep was to turn them often,
dressing the feet on a dry floor covered
two inches deep with quick-lime."
| According to one estimate, during the
past ten years the amount of capital in
vested in vineyards and grape growing has
increased over $10O,000,0O0 with an an
nual product of over S25,0OO,OOO.
| No rule can be given as to the best plan
of commencing the cultivation that will be
applicable under all circumstances What
will be best for one soil and in one season
will not answer with the next
Stock need salt when green food is
plentiful more than at any other time.
The lack of salt sometimes causes injuri-
GUS effects from green food that might be
avoided by its use for stock.
A spirited horse may soon be made slow
and spiritless by constant nagging, witch
ing the lines, peevish urgings and many
other wearing processes that fretful drivers
invent and practice.
Should fowls that have been afflicted
with Group show the effects of the disease
during the summer the difficulty of effect
ing a cure is too great, and the flock
should be destroyed.
Cows will not refuse stagnant water
when thirsty, ard as such water contami
mates the milk the matter of a plentiful
supply of fresh water is an important
one.
The hoe will compensate for lack O.
manure in the garden sometimes. Nothing
improves vegetables like good hoeing o.
the soil and cutting out the weeds.
| During the warm days of summer the
manure will ''fre-fang' unless plenty o.
absorbent material be used, or the manure
turned over occasionally.
| All fallen fruit, whether very young OIL
nearly matured, should be destroyed in
order to prevent the propagation of insect,
as much as possible.
| 1t will pay to thoroughly examine
every ear of corn intended for seed. Corr
from fields infested with rust last season
should be avoided.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-31
Protect the system from Malaria,

tits possible to do this even in regions
of country where miasma is most rife, and
where the periodic fevers which it causes
assume their most formidable types. The
immense popularity of Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters is very largely attributable to
the fact of its efficacy as a remedy for
chills and fever, bilious remittents, and as
a preventive of the various formsi of ma
larial disease. In those portions of the
West and South where complaints of this
nature prevail. and in the Tropics, it is
particularly esteemed for the protective in
fiuence which ii exerts; and it has been
very widely adopted as substitute for the
dangerous and comparatively ineffective
alkaloid, sulphate of quinine. Physicians
have not been among the last to concede
its merits. and the emphatic professional
Endorsements which it has received have
added to the reputation it has obtained at
home aud abroad.