Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-13

can conceive of nothing else but to be
washed, starched and ironed while you
wait; magic would have to play part
to add anything particularly startling
to the present way of doing things in
model laundries.
Laundries have suffered from a Slight
pail of misunderstanding with the
general public. The custom of saying,
"Oh, yes, everything gets ruined in the
laundry" becomes a habit, and is just
as far from the truth as many other
savings which are mere forms of repe-
tition from the mouths of those who
do not pause to think, for If they did
they would realize that they knew moth
ing about it. More old, decrepit shi is
and threadbare collars which have seen
better days are freshened, braced up
and supplied with a new lease on life
by their weekly visit to the laundry
than is ever suspected. If half the at
tention or care were given 70 people S
bodies that is put upon their shirts hu-
manity's ills would be few.
A minute REORGANIZATION of the or
fee of modern laundry machinery
detailed consideration of Its methods
and working powers-might not do as
much to eradicate this mistaken idea
as a few facts.
If the grlmbler would pause to take
in that the shirt on his back has gone
through twenty-one hands in the proc
ess of it's washing; that in three stages
of this bath it has rested In the hands
of severe inspectress, whose salary
depends upon her finding any flaws in
ire cleanliness; that the water which
washed IT is far better filtered than the
water he drinks; and that the soap is
so simple he could taste it with no i'll
effects perhaps then he would be pre-
nared for a comprehension Of the ways
of scientific washing, and would have
resnect for laundering as a profession.
How much science OK thought does
the ordinary general-housewOrk ser
want put upon the family washing?
How many 1ousekeepers have time to
snnorintend or bother about their
weekly washing? Washday is well
established nightmare, to be put 'out
of sight and mind as comfortably as
POSSIBLE. System is thing not sup
nosed to reach into the realms below
the kitchen.
Doing the weekly washing Ia an av-
erage American family is enough in
itself. with the frequent drawbacks of
Kitchens meant only for cooking, or
the Inconvenience of overcrowded
apartment-house laundries, and still.
Madam complains if her shirt waist
sleeves are wrinkled-
Modern laundries are, al We all
things, hygienic. Cleanliness is their
profession, and it is illustrated In their
surroundings. Cleanliness cannot be
preserved without the most thorough
laws of system. The best Of good sense,
business acumen and twentieth century
ingenuity Is being put forth with this
profession. No detail too minute IS
overlooked that VIII add in the least
to the saving OF labor or time. A
slight example of attention TO detail
was unconsciously shown recently in
a successful laundry. The manager.
foreman and two or three assistants
were crowded around a funny little
box-shaped machine and diminutiye
hour glass was being carefully watched,
to mark he exact time certain shirts
should lie in this miniature hotroom.
The subject OF their deep colsideTa-
ton was the required dampness OF the
clothes which enwrapped the shirts 50
that they would be properly Enolstened,