The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-13
HINTS FOR WASH DAY.
A. Housekeeper Tells How to Get
Good Results, bnt lis
Hard Work.


roof, and rejoices when the sunshine
comes when her clothes can be dried
and sweetened in the fresh air and
sunlight. One can scarcely take up a
paper without seeing an advertise
ment of some soap oil washing ma
chine that does away with the labori-
Gus process of rubbing. Clothes
must be rubbed to be properly
washed. Any soap strong enough to
eat the dirt out of clothes by their
simply soaking in its suds is strong
enough to injure the fabric.
1t is a question among good a
ayers whether it is best to soak clothes
in soapsuds and water or put them
dry in the rubbing water. The writer
believes, if the clothes are looked over
carefully and soiled Spots rubbed with
SOC and left soaking in clear cold
water which is not toe hard, it will
materially assist in washing If, how
ever, tie clothes are plunged without
sorting them yer into a tub OF luke
warm water it is better to forego the
process.
1t is quite important that all clothes
or table linen that are stained by
fruit or coffee should have these stains
removed with boiling water before
they are put in soak in cold water,
but tea and most other stains yield to
cold water and are set with hot water.
In removing clothes from soaking
take out a few at a time, wringing
them into the rubbing water. The
best rubbing board is n made of
corrugated zinc laid in rather fine
ridges. After rubbing all the clothes
on the board except the very fine
sheer ones like lawn dresses and I'M
derwear, cambria handkerchiefs and
other sheer pieces, which must be
rubbed in the hands, get ready the
water for boiling.
TO every two pailfuls of cold water
put in the boiler add a tablespoonful
of kerosene, and add to the whole
boiler about half an ordinary sized
five cen bar of soap scraped and
melted in hot water. The best soap
to use in washing white clothes is the
old fashioned bar soap, such as farm
ers used to make, but as this cannot
always be obtained, it is as well.to Sc
,lect any well recommended, perfectly
we'll known brand of brown soap that
is firm and hard. AS soon as the boil
er of clothes is boiling, time them, and
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them with the water they were boiled
in and let them remain till the next
boilerful of clothes is made ready, and
put over in cold water. prepared as
before with soap and Kerosene oil.
When all the clothes are boiled
begin rinsing them by passing them
through several rinsing waters, Last
Of all, put them piece by piece in a
tub of blueing and wiring them out OF
it with a wringer. Starch all such
pieces, as it is necessary to starch, re-
Numbering that it is no longer the
custom to use much starch. Dresses,
skirts and other pieces, which it was
formerly the custom to starch so stiff
that they ratified with every move
ment the wearer made, are now sim
ply flushed by a bath of the thinest
water starch. Colored clothes and
fiannels should be washed by them
selves in clear water with white soap,
never with brown soap, and thor
oughly rinsed.
II the colors Of a fabric or calico
dress begin to run after it is put in
water it should be rinsed in salt and
water, using salt in the proportion of
q tablespoonful to every gallon of
water. Never scald cambria or col
ored clothes or fiannels. Use a little
ammonia-about a tablespoonful to
every gallon of water-in washing and
rinsing fiannels. Hang white clothes
in the hottest sun you can find to
bleach, but hang iannels and all col
ored clothes in the house or in a dense
shade outdoors, where the flannel will
dry without shrinking and the cam
brio without fading.
Cam rics are better dried within
doors in a darkened room, as nothing
bleaches out color so soon as a strong
light on a wet garment.
Hawthorne and Tennyson.
Francis Bennoch, a bright, CHEEKY
Scotsman, long resident in London,
had a wide circle of literary friends
and acqnaintances. writes Alexander
Ireland In the Manchester Guardian.
He was the close and intimate friend
of Hawthorne during the years he vas
United States Consul in Liverpool,
and one of his books is dedicated to
Bennoch. When the ever-memorable
Art Treasures Exhibition was held in
Manchester, 1857, he invited Haw-
thorne to come up from Liverpool to
see it, and kindly asked the late
Charles Swain and myself to meet
him at dinner and spend the evening
together. The next day / spent m
tirely in the exhibition with Haw-
thorne, where q curious coincidence
occurred. While we were looking
at the pictures of the old masters l
saw Alfred Tennyson and Woolner,
the sculptor, enter the room together.
l pointed them out to Hawthorne,
who looked long and steadily at
Tennyson. l said to him:-'Will you
not speak to him and shake hands
with hiin2" To which he replied:-
ssOh, l could not do that. / never
saw him before; it would be obstru-
sive," etc. Nonsense" said I; 'let
me go to him and tell him you are in
the room. l am sure he will be de-
lighted to meet you and exchange
greetings" mo, no; l cannot allow
you to do that" I again demonstrated
with him. | urged him to join hands
with. Tennyson, in spite of owen
tional introductions and stupid
earthly Limitations and customs.
/ commended that the fact of
their being in the same room and
within a few Insignificant feet of each
other on this very day had been evil
IDENTIFY ordained from the beginning
of time, and that it would be a wilful
thwarting OF the designs of Provi-
6anca If the maafinp did NOT hacoma