Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-11-22
LAUNDRY LORE.
lone Points Learned In n Scientific
Course of Study.

! Iome Points Learned In Scientific
Course of Study.
1t remained for the practical Scotch
to first organize full course of forty
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 pu.
pills, and at other times the work is
done by those taught. 1t is especially
interesting to note the methods which
have received the Endorsement of the
school as the best. There are 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. The authorities at Edinburgh
are of the former opinion, and put all
their white linen and cotton clothes
in cold water after sorting them, into
body and bedlinen, and table linen,
and collars and cuffs and muslins
Flannels and colored clothes are
washed by themselves, of course, with
out 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 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 a 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 lather and 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 a
pound OF soda to four gallons
of water is an enormous quantity OF
a powerful alkali, and is certainly
hardly needed with pound of soap.
Very few of our best washers boil
their clothes more than three minutes,
or just enough to allow them to be
we'll scalded. Longer boiling tends to
make white cotton yellow. After boil
ing the clothes are lifted into laun.
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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.
1t is undoubtedly the easiest ami
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 we'll covered in stationary
tub, they will remain warm all night
and can easily be rinsed and the laun.
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 tc
which two tablespoonfuls of alcohol is
added to every quart. They are Their
. squeezed--not wrung out-with the
4 hands as dry as possible, wringine
, machine does the work perfectly, anG
laid in cotton, rolled up, and soor
ironed on the wrong side with a cloth
between the iron and silk IN. Y. Tri
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