The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-28
BEAUTY IN THE LAUNDRY.
Open Windows Wide-How to Guard Against Taking Cold When Hanging

Against Taking Cold When Hanging
 Up Clothes.
 Somebody has discovered that Iaun- dry work is good for the complexion. And a New York girl hearing the re- port, has put it to practical test. She is doing her own washing. And, thus far in her experiment, she is able to report much success, says a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle.
 Just for fear all the women may start in to do their own washing, so as 10 have a nice skin, and for fear they may start in wrong, it is well to tell how the work should be done. Wash ing, no matter how beneficial. is hard work and it would be a pity to do it in the wrong way.
 When you start in to wash-soaking the clothes-be sure that the water is clear and soft. Hard water injures the hands and does the clothes no good. Let the water be soft and clear. Fil- tered water, softened by borax would be best for the hands. The next best thing is good rain water with plenty of boraX dissolved in the water.
 To soak a shirtwaist, throw open the windows and lift the shirtwaist high in your hands. This gives the arm and shoulder exercise. Dip it in the tub, lift it, dip it again, and keep on lifting and dipping until the shirtwaist is wet thoroughly. Then let it lie in the deep water.
 Open the windows before you begin. Working with closed windows, winter or summer, is a poor plan. A close room injures the lungs and makes the complexion muddy. Moreover, 1t iA bad for the tissues. Women with adj pose tissue invariably work in a warm room.
 Washerwomen, cooks and house. workers of all kinds are almost a1- ways too stout. They get fat in spite of the exercise they take. This is be- cause the room in which they work is too warm and too close. It breeds a kind of unhealthy fat. If they would throw open the windows and breathe deeply they would be great deal bet ter off. Hot air, remember, makes you stout and it makes you loggy, It makes your muscles soft and your nerves unsteady. It gives the skin dull, pudgy look, as though one were made of putty.
 Soak your clothes in a cool room with the windows open and remember that all your laundry operations should be conducted in the same way. The washerwomen of France wash in the open air in a brook, rubbing their clothes against the stones. The air is clear and good: the water is cool and soft; the stones afford just the right amount of friction and there is al- ways the brook in which one can wade and cool off. The girl who can do her laundry work daily under such circum- stances would be blest indeed. She would be independent of beauty par lors.
 When she comes to the washing of her clothes she must be careful. The air must be good; the soap must be of the best, the water must be soft and she must understand the art of getting all the benefit possible If she does it right she will take a Turkish bath at no expense whatever: if she does not do it, as she should do 1t she will be uncomfortable all the rest of the day.
 Dress lightly and entirely in wash fabrics. Wear no flannel next to the skin, and if possible dress in two or three garments. It would be very nice if one could go barefoot, but there are very few who can do this. Besides barefOotedneSs tends to widen the foot and break down the arch of the instep. Therefore it is best to wear the shoes one is accustomed to wearing.
 The temperature of the room should be cool, and there should be a draught blowing through it.
 Let your clothing be of the kind that can be taken off as soon as you have finished your work, and put out to air. Better still wear a fresh suit for your laundry work, a plain shirtwaist that can be turned in at the neck, and calico skirt. This is an ideal laundry work uniform. Don't dress up loo much. No one is going to see you.
 Washing the clothes In the hot suds steams the skin and makes the com pIexion better. If the sweat stands out in beads, so much the better. You are getting a Turkish bath. Never be afraid to sweat, The finest portions of the skin are those that sweat the most