The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-19

Springs. Mrs Ryau was formed ~ Miss
Ifattye Daley, youngest daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. j. l., Daley, 81 cakwood
avenue
Mir George Daley. Of chinborazo
boulevard. who was recently operated
on Tor appendicitis is improving.
Mr. Charles Burgess. of Al xandria.
spent Sunday on the Hill. the gues,s of
friends.
Misses Mary and Cora Leber Of 2Si2
East Leigh street. have returned from
4 pleasant visit IL New Kent
Master clyde i.ifsco,nhe, who has
been the guest of his aunt. Mira Charles
Wiltshire. OF North Twenty sixth
street. has returned toe his nome in
Hanover county.
Res. Joseph Chiidrey has retIr ned 10
las home III Chester. Pa. after !, pleas
ant visit to his brother, MIR. Roland
Ghil,lres. al 32i North TIVE NY third
street.
Mrs Baker of Mechaniesville, is
spending several days in the home OF
AIR John Melton. of GhimRorazo Park.
To-Day and Seyenty-tive Years Ago.
During the seventstive years Of the
existence Of the Public Ledger there
has arisen the modern steam laundry.
entirely the necessary development Of
ttit ffNN tiNii}Z6ttDH. III 1a36 lHS
so-ealied steam laundry Was unknown,
and even any special laundry, eN-
cepting such as paid special attention
To certain classes of household articles.
which the old time housekeeper be-
lieSed could only be properly done
by a specialist was rarity.
The laundry" seVenty-five years
age. where the work was not done by
the domestic at home. was usually
the washereoman. who called at GER
tain times for a wash" and return
ed at uncertain times with the
clothes The oid-time washer
women We're not all of them good at
their trade, and some of them either
were careless or unfortunate. for there
We're times when articles went to the
wash 10 return no more. And tho
announcement. unreliable system was
bound to disappear before the march
Of modern methods of living, so the
ateam laundry. following hard upon
the unsatisfactory Chinese lAun0sNk
came to the front.
Improved machinery. careful sys-
tenn in handling large numbers Of
articles and general economical meas
ures for doing the work, made the
modern steam laundry what II il to-
day-aa necessity fer five-sixths Of the
population. Tpere is a responsibility
about the laundry to-day that was
absent when the washefwoman took
the clothes three generations age.
II an article Is missing or damaged
there is some one oi responsibility 10
talk to about it. But there is more
care taken with tho clothing than In
the days when 1t was entirely cleansed
by hand.
Then toe. this is an age that has
been educated To believe in sanitation.
and the modern laundry methods are
entirely sanitary. There Is real
economy in the way the laundry now
handles not only the personal "wash.~
but in the manner in which it makes
white and clean the whole househouid
weekly washing. It removes a great
deal of the uncomfortable effects or
an old-time washing day about the
house. and where one resides In apart.
ments the modern laundry IL q double
blessing. In the seventy-flye years
mentioned the laindries in this CITY
have increased from almost NIL 10
more than 700, including about so
operated by Chinese These latter.
and use none Of the modern machin-
of course. are not steam Inundrian
cry for washing or ironing el0thfn - 1
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