Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-24
KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERs

For the first time in all the years she
had been doing her washing at home she
found that the process Of soaking the
clothes was unnecessary, but she divided
the clothing in separate piles as she al
way had done-table, bed and body
linen, colored, fannels and stockings. She
then filled the washing machine to the
water line with lukewarm water, added
one cupful of soap solution for the white
clothes and operated the washer for two
minutes until heavy suds were formed.
She then added the white pieces one by
one, beginning with the table linen.
sufficient to make one load. She then
operated this load for ten minutes, which
was sufficient for clothes no more soiIed
than the Hooper family linen usually be-
come. She then wrung the first load
into her empty set tub and then added
the bed linen and white pieces to the
wash water sufficient to make load two. 4
AS the water didn't seem to be sufficient-
~ sudsy, she added another half-cup of
the soap solution and operated the ma
chine for fifteen minutes. Wringing load
number two into the same tub with load
one, she found that the temperature Of
the water had fallen below 10 degrees,
so she removed a pail Of suds and re-
placed 1t with hot water before putting
In load three and added another cupful
of soap solution. Load three finished all
the white clothes and after the machine
was operated fifteen minutes and the
clothes wrung into the tub with load one
and two, she drained off the water,
rinsed the machine and filed It with
fresh clear hot water as nearly scalding
possible. Then she put in all the
pieces from the set tub, rInsing them in
the machine. She operated each rinse
load about Eve minutes and filing her
second set tub with cool blue water, she
wrung each rinse load from the wringer
direct into the blue rinse. She then re-
wrung from the blue water into the
basket while the washer was operating
some Of the rinse loads, thus wringing
and rinsing at the same time.
At the end of the rinsing she drained
off the water and prepared for the flannel !
load, using fresh lukewarm water and
the white soap solution. Willis the
flannel load was operating for twenty
minutes she hung out the white clothes. /.
The flannels were rinsed IN the ma
chine for five minutes two tablespoons
full Of borax being added to the water
TO clear up the woods.
The colored load followed the nanneis
and was washed IN the same water, be-
ing operated for fifteen minutes and
rinsed in clear water.
The black stockings formed q separate
load Bettys and Helens white stock
ings had been washed with the white
load, and Rogers tan and colored sacks
which she was afraid might "bleed"
were done by themselves.
By IL o'clock the clothes were all
out on the lines and Mrs. Hooper felt
as If she had done no work at all
well, how did the washing machine
Of fFrSf fDoufru
reached home.-
Perfectly satisfactory" replied Mrs.
Hooper. I'm fact it is everything an
ttcipated and more. It~does the work
so efficiently and with so little demand
on my physical strength that 1t seems
unbelievable that the washing has really
been done today. 1t is even an improve
ment on faithful old Martha who was
the most wonderful laundress IN the
world, as you know, but she used to talk
all the time she was working, and the
machine is silent while it washes" :
The menu for the three meals onk
Wednesday is:
BREAKFAST.
Prunes and Apricots Cereal
(Stewed together)
Indian Corn Bread Scrambled Eggs
Coffee.
LUNCHEON
Minced Kidney on Toast
Canned Apricots
Corn Bread (reheated)
Cocoa
DINNER
Cream Of Tomato Soup
Broiled Halibut Steak
New Potatoes Butter Beets
Fruit Salad
Brown Betty.
Copyright, 1921