New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-09
HOUSEHOLD PLUMBING
NO. vi.
When the Laundry Must Be Done in the Home
the Worker Should Have the Advantage
of the Latest Scientific and
Sanitary Devices.

an efficient ventilator pipe, commun-
eating with the kitchen or furnace flue,
to transmit all steam vapor and odors
arising from dissolved organic filth to
the outside air.
The Dryer.
Not less desirable than sterilization BY
boiling water and a "redhot iron Is the
drying Of linen In the open air and fun
sunshine. This Is readily attained In
summer. both in the city and in the coun-
try, for the modern city roof Is now
completed with fenced. foored and
wire strung drying yard. Never during
pleasant weather should the wet linen De
consigned to the steam drying horse. Let
It bask In the sterllizing rays OF sunlight
out of doors. There is delicious ana
healthful freshness about linen thus
dried. The steam horse Of the apart
ment house. for use i'm freezing and In
clement weather. suggested the construc-
ton of a simple and satisfactory dryer
which may be adjusted about the small
laundry stove. 1t is an adjustable, many
armed, wooden arrangement, which
swings the laundry free of the passerby
and utilities the hot air nearest the cell
ing. This wall dryer when loaded can be
oriented to the highest accessible spot in
the room.
Efficiency in the Laundry.
II. G. Wells Enthusiastically remarks
that there seems TO be no limit to the in
vssion OF life by the machine. but he had
not based his observation on domestic
conditions along the Atlantic seaooard.
II 10 most extraordinary that Eastern
schools, and even universities, install
washboards in their domestic science
classrooms and actually direct young
women TO undertake such kidney dislo-
eating, back breaking work as the free
ing Of linen from CRIME and Nth by
manual labor.
Where Il is impossible to have the laun-
dry done in professional laundries, II has
to be done in the home. In such cases
there are excellent and inexpensive de-
vices known as washing machines. which
may be operated by power derived from
other sources than woman's muscle. III
the farmers wife In the Middle West can
switch the power derived from the wind
mill or gasolene motor indrerenty
from corn shelter to the cream separator
or TO the washing machine. II Is Indeed
strange that the commercial current for
sale in the smallest village OF the last
may not DO utilized 10 save the energies
OF the Eastern woman. whether she DO
housewife or charwoman. 1t Is true that
40 Inntippa In In
some households at present. but II Is
wrong that they are advocated by au-
thority, to the exclusion OF health and
scientific efficiency.
Half washed and still grtmy linen Is the
result OF insufficient power In The house
hold laundry. The price OF clean linen Is
too high when It includes muscular ex-
haustlon or such organic injuries as dis
located kidney. or rupture, in the worker.
| have seen efficiency IN the household
laundry. IL was the laundry OF
thoughtful clubwoman in a small city In
the midwest. The motive power was
electricity, switched at will 10 tho wash
ing machine, the wringer the electric
iron and the sewing machine BY the OPP
orator, a young American woman, who
voluntarily left work in drygoods store
10 become lsundress. The higher eff
cheney would undoubtedly be the neigh
borhood laundress. one woman. provided
with labor saving machinery could easily
do the laundry OF twenty families, re-
ceive q liberal weekly salary save money
for her employees and deliver the family
wash clean, sweet, vermin free and
sterile.