St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-11-16
LAUNDRY LORE.
Some Points Learned in a Scientific,
Course OF study

/ Course Of Study.
i 1t remained for the practical Scotch
to first organize full course of forty
4 lessons each in laundry work. In the
School of Domestic Economy, Edin-
burgh, this is done, each lesson being
two hours long Sometimes the
teacher does the work to show the pn-
pills, and at other times the work is
4 done by those taught. II is especially
/ interesting to note the methods which
I have received the Endorsement of the
/ school as the best. There are a great
many methods and almost every capa-
Bile laundress has ways of her own.
Some insist on soaking clothes over
night Others insist that this shall not
be done. Theauthorities at Edin burgh
are of the former opinion, and .put all
/ their white linen and cotton clothes
in cold water after sorting them, into
Ibodys and bellinen. and table linen,
and collars and cuffs and musllns.
Flannels and colored clothes are
washed by themselves. Of course. with
put soaking previously. The white
clothes are wrung out of the cold wa
ter, examined, soaped and rubbed
where they are especially soiled. Aft
er this they are thrown into a thick
lather of warm soapsuds. This latter
is made by dissolving half pound of
shredded laundry soap in three pints
of boiling water, and boiling the
whole until thick smooth mixture
Is the result One pint of this
mixture is stirred in every four gallons
Of warm water to make the lather.
The clothes are soaked and thoroughly
rubbed out Of this lathersAnd then re-
moved to the boiler. Where pound
of soap and half pound of washing
soda dissolved in little boiling water
is added to four gallons of cold water,
the clothes are transferred from the
rubbing tub to the boiler, brought
slowly to the boiling point, and boiled
fifteen minutes. Excellent laundresses
would disagree with the school in
several of these processes Half
pound of soda to four gallons
Of water is an enormous quantity of
powerful alkali, and is certainly
hardly needed with pound of soap.
Very few of our best washers boil
their clothes more than three minutes,
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we'll scalded. Longer boiling tends to
make white cotton yellow. After boil
ing the clothes are lifted into laun-
dry tub and covered with the water IN
which they were boiled, and are left
covered up in this water for several
hours to bleach. No person who has
tried the last method will ever suffer
from yellow clothes In winter because
there is no grass to bleach them.
It is undoubtedly the easiest and
most successful way to whiten
them, TO cover them with water
In which they were boiled and leave
Them over night and complete the
washing in the morning. IF the clothes
have been well covered in stationary
tub, they will remain warm all night
and can easily be rinsed and the Iaun-
dry work completed. Silk handker-
chiefs are soaked for short time in a
prepared lather Of boiled soap and
warm water squeezed out with the
hands and rinsed In cold water 10 d
which two tablespoonfuls of alcohol is
added to every quart. They are then
wrung out-with the
aands as dry as possible, Wringing
machine does the work perfectly, and
aid in cotton, rolled mp, and soon
roned on the wrong side with d cloth
between the iron and silk. IN. 7. Tri-
oune. .s "a