The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-19
FOR WOMEN TO
READ,

A prolonged inspection of the me-
chanical dishwashing apparatus OF big
hotels, restaurants and so on, is apt
10 leave the individual housewife sunk
in permanent disgust at her shiny dish
rag and half-coId disnwater. The
principle of the dishwashing machine
IS three great tubs, with two pipes in
each Through the bottom pipe pours
boiling water. Through the top pipe
the so1ed water constantly flows off
IN the center of each tub an iron
whirIigig is kept whirIing tumultuous-
" by electric power, churning the va
ter INTO torrent of soapsuds, white
as lather
Now along overhead comes sliding
dishpan on a travelling crane. The
pan is made of strong iron wire, and
holds from two to four dozen pieces.
according to the size. The operator
grabs a pulley chain. down goes the
dishpan, souse-souse into the boiling
soapsuds. Over and over again it
souses. then along it goes and dives
into the first rinsing tub. then the
second rinsing, then along the crane
1t travels to the drain board. Here the
dishes are lifted out by hand absolute
! ly clean and almost absolutely dry,
needing scarcely the flick of a towel
, for polish. Even if the towel be dis
| pensed with and a plate reach the
diner with a trace of damp upon it.
he who has seen it passing through
those floods of boiling, swift flowing
rinsing water will not worry. Two
minutes serves for the passage of each
pan of dishes through the tubs, and
from seven hundred to twelve hundred
dishes are washed an hour. Silver and
glass have their special tempera lures,
and come I'D shining.
A reVolutioniSt of the Charlotte
Perkins Gilman type suggests a CO.
operative dishwashing establishment
| in a neighborhood, to wash dishes after
| this style for all the families who SUBJ
scribe to it. This would require
| room in some building which would
supply the power, and the installation
of the dishwashing machine. which
costs several hundred dollars. Then
the proprietor would collect the dishes
| from all the families on his route. They
would be packed in the big wire dish
pans and never unpacked returning dry
and spotless after their journey
| through the absolute cleanliness of the
| boiling waters. AS for breakage, one
| restaurant proprietor stated that his
| 500 diShwashing machine saved it's
cost in seven weeks by it's reduction
| of breakage.
| Women who make elegant and elab-
| crate fancy work of the kind which
wellto-do women make for the decor
| alton of the homes of themselves or
| friends can always sell it to big stores.
| Neither influence nor business expe-
| rience is necessary. Just ask to see
| the head of the fancy work depart
| nent and show the work. If it is
| good it will command respectful at
| tention, even if it does not sell. But
| it must have original ideas. Old ideas
| familiar for months in the stores will
| not sell. One woman who began sim
ply by showing her own amateur work,
| now shows her samples for Christmas
| work in the spring, and gets orders
| enough from the big stores sometimes
| from one store alone, to keep her busy
| all summer and autumn. Her business
! has now grown to a point where she
visits factories and buys remnants
| of silks, satins, velvets and sewing and
embroidery silks. She buys linen,
| sheet wadding and sachet powder at
| wholesale. She cuts out her articles
her machine stitching and presses
them all Then the decorative finish
ing is done as opportunity serves. An
other woman, an invalid confined to
her room, has sold many dozens of
orders simply by mailing samples to
New York stores and requesting orders.
1t is always necessary to remember,
however, that there are any number
of people who can work when they are
told what to do, while those who can
furnish new ideas are few and far be-
tween. and it is they who can COM
mand the money.
bright woman has invented
homemade sort of vacuum cleaning.
She runs the open end of the rubber
tube of her bicycle pump over all
kinds of hooks and crannies in statu-
ary furniture, and so on which are
difficult to clean with a cloth, mean
while working the pump vigorously
with her foot.
THE education of girls and women in
India received a significant impulse at
a meeting recently held in London, at
which the subject of early marriage
was discussed wholly by Indians" says
The Woman's Journal. "All de-
nounced it as curse. whether consider
ed from physical or a moral point OF
view. In 1901 the number of wives I'M
der five years of age was more than
a quarter of Million: between five
and ten. over two millions; while near
ly seven millions We're between ten and
fifteen. There were, besides, nearly
half a million widows under fifteen Of