The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-03-21
PoIRTs b WksHINe cLoTHEs.
Eodern HethOaz and the Results
ThereOf set Forth for the IN
inItfafed Housewife.


laundry In one case the clothes are
boiled as our grandmothers boiled
them; in the other they are not
boiled The latter method, which is
the newer one, Is enormously called
the "eold process" method, though
warm, not cold, water IS generally
used Sometimes even hot water Is
employed The temperature of the
water and the question whether the
clothes shall be boiled or not depends
upon the laundry soap used. There
are many varieties of laundry soap
IN the market to-day which contain
Parahne or naPhtha, and it is not
necessary to use anything. but warm
water with these soaps. Most house
keepers, however, find it more agree
able TO heat water quite hot for
washing In winter, and easier to
wash In warm water, no matter what
soap is used, says the New York
Tribune.
Oldtime housekeepers who have es-
tablished and rigid ideas Of the prop
CT method Of washing clothes are
often, no doubt, shocked when they
see how derelict the modern woman
is in washing, according to old ways
They canont deny that her clothes
are as sweet and white as their own,
and they know she does her work
easier than they do. It is only a few
generations since the oldtime pound
ing barrel was abandoned No one
pounds clothes now, and, If the truth
must be told, very few persons are
boiling their clothes to-day. Only q
few now use old fashioned soaps Of
strong alkah nature, which demand
that the clothes shall be boiled a
large number Of people use some va
riety Of soap which viii do its 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 a boiling temperature
All substances obtained from crude
petroleum used in cleaning, whether
gasOlene, benzine or naphtha, are
generally included in this country IN
der the name naphtha, and are local
" called Parafine in England. 1t is
very different from parafine wax.
This Parafine 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
"eold process the method to be pur-
sued is an easy one. If there is 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 a bar of the proper
kind OF soap. Put the shaved soap
in two quarts of water in a tin ket-
tie, and set it on the stove, where
it viii melt, but not boil. When the
breakfast is cooked, the water in the
boiler viii be hot enough 10 wash
with. Divide IL 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 they
must also be rubbed and wrung into
another tub or a clothes basket, to
be rinsed. Wash the coarser cOttons,
then the 7annels, and then the cal
icoes 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
filed again with warm, but not very
hot, water, to rinse the clothes in
Warm water viii take the soap out
better than cold. Rinse the white
clothes first. They should have been
covered, so as not to become perfect
" cold. After they have been thor
OughIy rinsed in the two tubs Of wa
ter, wiring them very dry. Starch
them that need It, and hang them all
out on the clothes line. Rinse the
hannels, coarse clothes and calicoes
successfully through the rinsing wa
tiers. Starch the calicoes that need
it and hang them all out
Where the attic is arranged so that
lines can be stretched IN il TO dry
clothes In winter or wet weather, II
is q great convenience If this is not
possible, It is better to do the wash
ing in some shed or other room ad- I
joining the kitchen, where a stove
can be set up. This can be used as
a drying room. 1t is not desirable |
to have wet clothes drying In the |
kitchen. Clothes that have been !
hung out OF doors and are not yet
dry, but frozen, may be hung IN such /
a drying room and dried by the same |
warm fire by which the washing was |
done 1t is a positive injury to table |
linens, sheets and other clothes to /
hang them out OF doors for a long /
time, to become frozen and flap about 4
In the wind 1t is also injurious to /