The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28
Nothing Is So Bene.
fetal for Them
as a Sunbath.
HANG THEM IN THE YARD.
Once a Month All Closets
Should Be Turned Out
of Doors.

/ went to call ON careful woman
yesterday and found her in the most
becoming neglige, with clothes of every
description heaped up around her on
the chairs and sofa.
Where are you going?" 7 said. Il
thought you were to remain in town
all summer"
ut is because am not going away"
she answered, that l am doing this.
am now preparing to give all my
clothes a summing.
do you believe in the sun-bath as
the greatest blessing a woman and her
personal belongings can have?' she
continued. IF you don't l am going to
make a disciple of you right here. No
airing for the clothes is half as good
as a summing Once a month / choose
day when the full tide of sunlight is ON
the land, winter and summer, and put
all my belonging out in ii"
But some of your dresses will face
in the sunlight" 1 said. "Then what do
you do?"
why those, of course, don't put
out in the sunshine; that is, l don't
put them right side up. Innings rarely
fade. I begin by pinning back all the
window stills and chairs near the win
dow When this is not sufficient / pull
couch into that part of the room
where the sunlight falls clearly and
spread the things out on that. In the
winter once a month is sufficient, but
in the summer / give a bath to my
clothes twice a month.
"Of course, / do not put my muslin
gowns out in the sunshine, for that is
unnecessary, as they go to the wash,
but my China silk and foulard and IN
formal house gowns that happen to re
unwashable, all these go into the sun.
In my back windows I tie a cord across
the window-sill Then turn my clothes
inside out, hook them at the belt, put
them over the metal stretcher and hang
them out in the sun by cord. There
they remain until afternoon With my
bodice pull the sleeves wrong side out,
take off the shields Then I prepare II
a basin a weak solution fof household
ammonia. Into this I dip q little SIX
sponge and carefully sponge off the I'M
ings under the arms, where the per-
spiration is apt to have made 1t I'M
pleasant in odor l do this around the
neck-band and across the shoulders,
wherever the perspiration has stained
it.
"If the perspiration, added to the
dust, has given the lining a soiled look
around the throat, / pour little gaso-
line in a mug dip the sponge in that
and wipe off all the stains effectually
before putting the bodice in the sun.
l do not put any of these clothes in the
shadow, mind you, and let air and sun
filter on them. but put them right out
in the full glare of the light, SO that
they are warm and baked when l take
them in after luncheon.
"Of course, before / hang the skirts
out shake them thoroughly and go
over all the hens with a whisk-broom
there are spots first
sponge off with a little water to remove
the dust and then use the gasoline,
says a writer in the Philadelphia Press.
Il not only do this to all my clothes,
but to my shoes, my gloves, my silk
skirt and my pettieoats that do not
wash, and to my corsets, No gar
ments. by the way, need such frequent
and strong summing as corsets and
shoes. They hold the perspiration as
nothing else does. Whenever 1 take my
boots off at night 1 turn them inside
out and put them by the open window,
where they will get the air. All women
who allow their boots to remain under
cover without air or sunshine make a
serious mistake.
MY cook says / have a mania for
sun-baths," she continued, for l see to
it personally that all the cooking uten-
sils are put in the window to sun once
a month. There is nothing to me like
for it goes into all the hooks
and crannies and disinfects in a more
way than any liquid.
There is no habit so easy to get in
to as letting ones clothes get musty
from lack of sunlight and air. 1t is so
easy to wear a gown, take it off, brush
it carefully, hang it up in the closet and
lock the closet door. The woman who
does this land she is legion) thinks
with pride of her carefulness and is
always delighted that she can truth
fully boast that no person can catch
her unawares and find her bureau,
washstand and closet in disorder
so far so good. But two days of
disorder during the month when every
thing is turned out of these receptacies
and turned into the glare of the sun
shine would materially add to the
sweetness and frangrance of her
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