Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-17
WOMAN'S WORLD.
MISS WILLARD AS PRESIDING Off.
! GER AT THE SUNSET CLUB.

GER AT THE. SUNSET CLUB.
About Washing Blankets-Sympathy fo
Mrs. Osborne-From washtub to Throt
tle-A Woman Hotel Cashier-Are Yo,
Psychic?-A New Table Drink.
Some of the folks who went to thu
Sunset club dinner week ago wondered
why Miss Frances Willard did not come
in till after the coffee had been served
A member of the club who was talking
about it yesterday told story which
shows that the great leader of the WON.
en- temperance advocates has nice tact
of discrimination. Miss Willard was in.
vited to preside over the debate and she
said she would come and bring Lady
Henry Somerset, who is president of the
British Woman's Christian Temperance
union, with her. The Sunset club men
are an informal lot, and as there never
had been women's night at the club be-
fore, some of them were anxious to know
whether they could smoke while the
speakers were putting their hobbies
through their PAGES. And one of them
wrote to Miss Willard about it,
"Phew," said Miss Willard, who some
times makes a sally to pllverize the to-
bacco power. The letter smelled as if
the man who wrote it had been smoking
a pipe over it, The dainty trappings of
the Evanston cottage seemed to take tho
infection. She put on her bonnet ant'
shawl and came down town.
NnO tho SunSat p111h n, or, che
asked Secretary Errant, the autocrat of
the club
well, yves, believe few of them
of the lower class of them-do some
times" said Mr.. Errant, placing corn-
cob in his waste basket.
"Well, they mustn't do it at the din
ner," said Miss Willard. "Now, another
question: Do they drink"
"Oh, no! nor said Mr.. Errant in dis
may. "Not pint, can assure you.
The club serves no drinks. Sometimes
the members get little gay and order
Apollinaris or Sauterne, or some other
sparkling water, you know"
"Well, shant come to the dinner"
said Miss Willard, who knows what
,Sauterne is. Then she thought mo-
ment and added, "but I'll come and pre-
side over the discussion after the din
ner." Which she did, and made the
very best chairman the Sunset club has
ever had. Many of the members drank
Sauterne, but when Miss Willard came
sit was in the flesh, not in the spirit"
one of the members said, and Mr.. Err
rant had cleared the main table of the
al c
and the adder and the worm that dieth
not. There were bottles on some of the
smaller tables, but Miss Willard is a
wise little woman and she is also near
sighted Chicago Herald.
A Good Time and Way to Wash Blankets.
VERY soon now," says an experienced
housekeeper, Il watch for the chance to
catch rainwater to wash my blankets.
1t is possible even here in the city to
manage this. tap the eavepipe which
comes from the roof and have ready q
large clean molasses barrel. After a
steady rain has lasted sufficiently long
to wash the dust and SCOT from the top
of the house the barrel is rolled under
and a good supply of soft water is the
result. 1t is preferable to any other sort
for blankets.
"If people only knew it, blankets are
as easily washed at home. as napkins. l
take mine, a pair at time, usually on
Fridays, for l find to have them done at
the end of the Mondays washing en-
genders carelessness. 1 make strong,
hot soapsuds of the rainwater, which l
then reduce to tepid with cool water
and plunge my blankets in, sousing
them up and down, rinsing them after
ward in two more clear tepid soft wa
ters. To pass them from one rinsing
tub to another they should be as lightly
wrung as possible and, of course, never
put through the wringer. If there are
any specially soiled places or stains 1
rub these with small stiff brush in the
first soapy water, holding the spot taut
over the back of a kitchen platter.
"For drying them l have the lines
stretched very close together, seven or
eight of them, and spread the blanket
lengthwise on this rope frame. The
ropes should not sag and they should be,
of course, out of the direct rays of the
sun, though it is well to do your blank
cts on a sunny day, as there is more dry
ing in the air. They will need to be
firmly pinned to the line at both ends
stretch, but do not pull them. 1t is bet
ter to take off the ribbon binding before
washing, as it is apt to run; if it is good
enough it can be washed and ironed sep
arately and restored, but fresh binding
on the clean, fluffy blankets gives the
final finishing touch."-Her Point of
View in New York Times.