The Cook County herald., 1902-07-12

few now use old fashioned SOAPS of
a strong alkan nature, which demand
that the clothes shall be boiled. A
large number of people use some va
riety of soap which will do it's best
work in warm or hot-not boiling
water. When clothes are boiled,
after they have been washed with
one Of these soaps containing paraf-
fine or naphtha, they are not as
white as they are when not subject
to boiling temperature.
All substances obtained from crude
petroleum used in cleaning, whether
gasolene, benzine or naphtha, are
generally included in this country un-
der the name naphtha, and are local
1y called paratfine in England. 1t is
very different from parafine wax.
This parafhne from petroleum has
been successfully used for years in
England in washing clothes, and only
lately in laundry soaps in this coun-
try.
When clothes are washed by the
"cold process" the method to be pur-
sued is an easy one. If there IL no
regular supply of hot water in the
house, let the boiler be filed early
in the morning by some man Of the
family. 1t is too hard work for q
woman. Shave bar of the proper
kind Of soap. Put the, shaved soap
in two quarts of water in q tin ket-
tie, and set it on the stove, where
it will melt, but not boil. When the
breakfast is cooked, the water in the
boiler will be hot enough to- wash
with. Divide 1t between two large
Washtubs set out on a stand for
work. Divide the soap which has
been melted also between them, and
stir it in. Put the white clothes in
the larger tub of soapy hot water,
and let them soak for half an hour.
while breakfast is served. At'the end
OF this time rub the white clothes
through this water and wiring them
into the second tub, from which thew
must also be rubbed and wrung into
another tub or a clothes basket. to
be rinsed. Wash the eoarser cottons,
then the fannels, and then the cal
lcoes through these two waters, and
lay each set by itself. Meanwhile,
empty the tubs, or let some strong.
able-bodied man do it, and have them
filled again with warm, but not very
hot, water, to rinse the\ clothes in.
Warm water will take the soap out
better than cold. Rinse the white
clothes first. They should have been
covered, so as not to become perfect
ly cold. After they have been thor
oughly rinsed in the two tubs of wa
ter, wiring them very dry. Starch
them that need 1t, and hang them all
out on the clothes line. Rinse the
hannels, coarse clothes and calicoes
successively through the rinsing wa
ters. Starch the calicoes that need
1t and hang them all out.
Where the attic is arranged 10 that
lines can be stretched in it to dry
clothes in winter or wet weather, it
is great convenience. If this il not
possible, 1t is better to do the wash
ing in some shed or other room ad-
joining the kitchen, where 5, stove
can be set up. This can be used as
a drying room. It Il not desirable
to have wet slothes drying in the
Kitchen. Clothes that have been
hung out of doors and are not yet
dry, but frozen, may be hung in such
drying room and dried by the same
warm fire by which the washing was
done. It Is a positive injury to table
linens, sheets and other clothes to
hang them out of doors for q long
time, to become frozen and flap about
in the wind. It is ALSO injurious to
fold cotton or linen cloth while it is
frozen. It strains the fibers and
causes the cloth to crack. :.
r.. a. killing OF seals. !: S. 1z.5 Ss#,
The increased value Of sealskins In
1900 induced the lessees Of the Pribilof
islands, the breeding grounds Of the
seal herds, to kill Il, 600 two-year-old
seals, whereas the rule has been not
to kill any seal which has not reached
the age Of at least three years. IL the
killing Of two-year-olds is SLOWED to.
continue it Is certain that the seal
herd viii soon be exterminated.
S 81. Tattsaed Oysters.
Half-developed oystersgand bivalvss:
which are in poor desh, as 8 stool cknan:
would say, are now kept in regular
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