Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-12-27


no fuss or bother; the kitchen or
basement floor I do not have to scrub
and the dresSfronts which are not
soaked during wringing because
there simply is no surplus water;
the ease of doing blankets, quilts,
or even sheets, which are indis-
putably heavy to haul through a
wringer; the space it saves, since no
laundry tubs are necessary, simply
a sink in which to drain the water.
and the fact that it can go in the
kitchen, for 1t is tremendously con-
yenient to have it near the tele-
phone. small children, and the rest.
of the house. It's even a good
looking piece of working equipment.
It's not true that automatic
washers do not get clothes as clean
as the wringer type. 1t stands to
reason that the cleansing action of
any washer is simply swishing
clothes. in one way or another,
through soapy suds; furthermore,
one must change the soapy water for
each load with an automatic ma
chine, not use the tubful several
times. AS to its using more soap,
that has not been my experience,
since I follow directions about main
tanning no more than the proper
suds line Water softeners are no
more necessary than with any other
machine-it all depends on your
water.
My own criticism at first was that
| it is SO inflexible in its schedule ). !,
Iyou can't open the machine and
drop in the apron you have for
gotten, once it is full of water
Naturally, I've not been able to
solve that, but I have worked out
some answers to other small diff
culties. One of these was the fact
that the machine works best when
fairly full. and I hate to mix the
small weekly number of dust clothes
and cleaning rags with other
lclothes. Also, I thought the recon-
mended bleaching process was too
long So I now find it perfectly
satisfactory to drop both cleaning
rags and things for bleaching into
a mildly soapy, warm and
bleach solution in sink or dishpan
during the half-hour my first
load was washing. Then I wiring
these by hand and mix them with
whatever other clothes I have saved
for a second full load. The white
things thus get bleached and much
of the soil is removed from the
dirtiest cloths.
From Mrs. P. O., HydttSUille.)
I must add my 3 cents worth to
the information requested about
washing machines. Having used both
automatic and regular types for
several years in homes, apartments
and Army towns, was determined
to get the automatic kind. and so
after we moved into our own home
I did the washing by hand-soak,
rub and wiring method-until an
automatic machine became avail
able. 1t was well worth it (and the
doing by hand instead of sending
the laundry out saved the difference
in cost over a regular machine).
The advantages: Time saving (can
prepare meal. do dishes, hang out
wash, ETC., while the machine does
the work.; soak saving (uses much
less than either hand or regular
washer method; wash is dry enough
to hang indoors without putting
down papers, and if hung outside
first batch is ready to bring in for
ironing when second batch is ready
to hang out; hand saving especially
for sufferers from soap and water
dermatitis) back savings (no ma
chine to be pushed around, rinse
tubs to empty; mending saving (no
buttons torn off or broken; towels,
chenille and blankets follow in
structions carefully washed beau
tifully. AS to water use, the auto
matte machine probably does use
more water for soak, wash and
rinse than q regular machine, be-
cause one tends to skimp on the
rinsings for a regular machine. The
water from an automatic can be
run into sink and used for hand
washing of socks, etc, which run
badly, but as a general rule the
wash water is so dirty that one
doesn't care to reuse it. Poor results
with an automatic are, I think, due
to omission of the soak period, over
loading of machine or not rubbing
very soiled spots Gas has to be done