New-York tribune., 1910-06-01

Balderston, the teacher. Immediately re-
places it with whatever is the newest thiiis'
Last evening there was demonstration LII
the laundry laboratory, and when the Pu-
nils settled down TO work 1t was slshC
calculated TO make the old-fashloheu
housewife who scrubs her clothes on
tin board in wooden tub and boils theni'
with the cabbage for dinner cooking So
ciabIv on the same stove, blush Nith
shame.
The modern way, shown at Teachers Col
leee is to boil the clothes in the tub py
means OF steam. The wash is put in the
enamelled tub, with cold water and soap
a shining little nickel arm attached to the
side is plunged in. the turn OF faucet
sends the steam kissing through this arm,
and in three minutes the clothes are boil
ing merrily.
This would not be practicable in an
ordinary house." said Miss Balderston
because Il requires an eighty-pound press
IRE OF steam, and in most dwelling houses
the pressure wouldn't be more than one
pound But In large country or city houses
or in an apartment house sufficient press
ure Of steam ought to be possible. For in
stitutions it is just the thing
The eamut of the exhibition runs all the
way from huge washing machines and
mangles worked by power TO tiny outfit
consisting of tubs no bigger than wash
bowl, a wrnger six inches long and clothes
pins of fairylike dimensions This set IS
not meant for dolls clothes, as one little
sir! ecstatically imagined last night. but
for the furnished room girl who is obliged
TO look neat and fresh on something like
S14 week
-. oE 4i1a evhi
apparatus for institutional laundry work.
Here is a washing machine which Is huge
cylinder full of holes, and which takes
the dirt out OF clothes by simply swishins
them back and forth, and wringer which
extracts water by centrifugal force. In a
very few minutes sheet put in the wash
ing machine passes through the wringer
and comes out from the mighty mangie
fnicely ironed and dry.
1.-THE only trouble with these equipments
Miss Balderston remarked, 'is that laun-
dry fitted with them needs trained head,
and so far institutions don't think it nee
essary TO have skilled laundry workers;
they get along with anybody"
More interesting than this part OF the
exhibit to the housewife is the washing ma
chine that can be adjusted TO q small tub.
the glass rubbing boards and the closets
with shelves neatly set forth with every
thing necessary for household laundering.
With the latter Is a typewriter list from
which the anxious housewife may learn
how to remove every imaginable variety
of stain.
There was one corner of the exhibit that
had a particular fascination for Il stout and
elderly male visitor last night On little
table lay three nishtgoens--No. /. an eiabo-
rate lace affair which cost SO Is: No 2. a
French embroidered garment. cost 81 %; No.
8, a nightgown with one friu, cost 81 %.
A neat little paper stated that in career
including twenty-five launderings No.
would cost its owner Sc q more. No. e
would take 81 80 in laundry bills and no.
the same.
Hearing the stout man sigh deeply, a
sympathetic person approached him and
asked what the matter was.
al have wife and six daughters. he
said laying his hand on nightgown No. /,
land they all wear this kind
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