The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-01-25

material welfare, and to the intellectual
and moral status; and since this applies
to the steam laundry which is being so
much complimented and criticised Just
now in its first use of lot of modern
apparatus, we call attention to some
comparisons of the commercial merits of
the case
Granting that large percentage of
the population either sends it's clothes
away from the home to be washed or
employs help to come to the house to do
it, we submit these points for consider
alton.
Washing at home: Requires consider
able extra fuel, extra work of providing
water, gets part or all of the house more
or less dampened with the steam, and in
cold weather is fruitful source of sick
ness. Rubbing clothes on the wash
board or swishing them about in the
rotary washer, wears and damages them
some; wringing them by hand pulls the
goods out of shape and to some extent
destroys their texture. Wringlng them
IN the wrnger requires much care to
protect the buttons, and many are lost
or broken anyway. Any person leaving
the warm steamy washroom in winter
to 60 out and hang clothes on the line
is subjected to severe exposure. Clothes
drying on the line suffer much injury if
the wind is blowing, or if they freeze
and whip in the wind the damage is
greater. Granting there is no wind,
and freezing occurs, they suffer damage
when taken off the line, because of the
strain necessary to loosen them from
the line where the clothespins creased
them and retained an icy bunch. If
there is starch in the clothes, the freez.
ing damages the starch and they do not
iron well.
Washing in the laundry: Clothes Of
kind are put into tight cylinder that
revolves slowly and reverses, SO the
clothes neither wear nor tangle but are
brot in contact with the suds, sufficient
to release all dirt and stains and hold
them in solution ready to be drawn off
in the draining and rinsing. They are
not touched by press or wringer or a
twister to dry them. They are put into
a vertical cylinder, few at a time, and
the cylinder revolves at high rate OF
speed that throws the water practically
all out Of them by what is called centri.
fugal force. 1t is the same force that
would throw person out merry-go
round if it were run at too high a
speed. The sides are Of screen, and the
water passes thru the screen, doing no
violence to the clothes. They are then
hung in racks and exposed to warm air
in the drying room, until they 60 to the
mangling or ironing department. Slick
hot cylinders operated by the engine but
controlled by foot levers, do the ironing
and shaping of the garments. One de-
vice shapes shirt bosom, another the
neckband, another the collar and still
another the cuff. Quilts and double
blankets are handled with the same
precision of process in cleansing, and
long hot rollers do the smoothing as
easily and as quickly as the old sadiron
would do napkin.
Salt Lake City has built up great
industry with her "washboard" and we
have paid tribute to them and to the
express company long time, but it is
up to us now to lay aside religion and
politics and possible church dictation
and patronize the Blackfoot Steam
Laundry so far as it is consistent with
business principle, and give 1t every
reasonable chance to succeed.