Evening star., 1923-01-08
What Happens
To Clothes
Modern Laundry Is a Marvel Of
Efficiency and Thoroughness.

When the laundry man departs
from your door does II ever occur to
you to wonder just what happens to
those personal belongings which you
cram into a bag at the beginning Of
the week and take fresh and clean
from a carefully wrapped parcel sew
eral days later?
Probably not one woman in hun
dred knows the processes through
which her clothing and linen are put
each time they are sent to that more
or less indefinite place called "the
laundry"
She knows that the clothing is
washed and ironed and that by some
miraculous feat her belongings are
separated from the belongings of
dozens of families and returned to
her with rarely any article missing.
This is the modern way OF doing
things, and behind 1T is system re-
markable in its completeness and a
system which has been worked out
so that the labor of busy house
wife is lightened and Monday is no
longer the most dreaded day of the
week.
Curiosity caused a woman not long
ago to visit the laundry to which for
months she had been sending her
entire family wash. She found
high, with wide windows on all four
sides. The sun streamed through
these windows upon dozens OF smiling
faced men and women, who. Wlthout
any hurry or hustle, but quietly and
efficiently, were engaged in the nee
aecarv operations of laundering
clothes for a goodly number OF
At one end of the room the bags
were brought in and the clothing
sorted, white garments in one pile,
colored in another, silk in separate
nile from wool, and stockings in a
pile by themselves. Each pile was
then placed in bags made of coarse
open-work mesh, with a number
designating that particular wash
stamped on a large piece of cotton
which was pinned to the bag. By this
method the custom of marking each
garment with unsightly ink marks
is obviated.
The bags were placed in Individual
washing machines and the entire
laundry of a single family was done
at the same time and was never
brought into contact with the clothing
or linen of any other family.
Only the finest of soap flakes were
used, and the clothing put through
so many waters that the last was
as clear as CRYSTAL. hc IACAL "a AOSSSo
was that of drying, which was done
by means of machines revolving, so
rapidly that every bits of moisture
was gently drawn from the garments
without any squeezing or wringing.
The finer articles of apparel were
ironed by hand, and the bed and table
linen put through a smoothly padded
machine, which was carefully run so
that there was no chance of even the
slightest injury. After that the cloth
ing was sorted and the belongings of
each individual family were arranged
in large new paper bags placed in
wooden boxes. The bags were closed
and fastened down with pastors, and
there was no string to make any
marks on or to cut into the beau
tifully ironed and folded garments.
BY delivering each laundry in its
separate box, there is no possibility
Of anything being crushed.
The cost of family wash, including
everything for a family of four or
five, is surprisingly low, but even
less expensive is an arrangement by
which only the table and fiat linen
Is ironed and the wearing apparel
starched and dried so that with little
effort a woman may iron these her
self.