Evening star., 1948-02-26
MARIONETTES?
CLOTHES-DISH-WASHER
, COMBINATION.

| (FrOm Mrs. A. L. r., WIShtngIOH.J
I'm very interested in starting
group to work with marionettes
and produce shows in our homes
for the children. This is strictly
an amateur adventure, and purely
for pleasure and not profit Cfinan-
cial, anyway.
None of my immediate acquaint-
ances are particularly interested in
this field. My sister dabbles in 1t
with me, but her time is limited, and
weeks go by before we get together.
1t can be a great deal Of fun, and
Is instructive for both children and
adults. We can, be as modest or
elaborate as we wish.
1t would be best to Unit a group
to a locality where it would not be
too difficult to meet at each others
homes. Others might be interested
in starting other similar groups,
but I would like to limit mine to
the southeast section. Are any of
you ladies or gentlemen interested?
have no phone myself, but if any
one is interested you can contact
me through the column.
Clothes-dish washer combination:
My opinion of this machine is, of
course, prejudiced by the experience
of receiving lemon" I'm sure
the manufacturer must make some
that are more satisfactory than
mine, or the whole tribe OF women
owners would rise in wrath and
apply sledge-hammers to every
model.
The dish washer, to me, was more
trouble than it was worth. 1t Is
practical only when you could save
all dishes through the day and load
them in the machine after each
meal. However, it always seemed
that I needed one of said dishes
or I wanted to wash some clothes
and had to remove everything and
put in. the clothes tub, which. Is
extremely heavy. My electric coffee.
pot has te,be washed by hand, any
way, so why not a few dishes, too?
All this could be forgiven If it had
washed the pots and pans. It didn't.
Anything that needed securing I
didn't expect it to. However, when
stewing tomatoes or cooking broccoli,
there Is only scum that can
wash off with little effort with a
dish cloth. The dish washer couldn't.
It didn't dry the dishes. They dried
better when I rinsed them under
the tap and drained them in the
rack. All this proved so dfscourag-
ing I just stored the dish washer in
the pantry to be used only when
company came for dinner. This
sounds reasonable, but I only used.
it once for company. Every other
time that company came, this
machine must have received ad-
vance notice and went out. of COM
mission and couldn't be used at all!
The day the demonstration from the
electric company came. the machine
went out of commission in the
morningl
I might have forgiven all this If
the clothes washer was all I ex-
pected. 1t washed the clothes
beautifully clean-not only remov-
ing all dirt, but part of the clothes,
tool I never saw things wear out SO
fast! There was lint all over every
thing, regardless whether it was
terry towels or shirts, which orig
inally must have been part of the
fabric.
Everything that could possibly go
wrong mechanically with machine
went wrong with mine. 1t needed
two new pumps, new balancer,
new motor, whole new mechanism.
Vibration? 1t didn't vibrate-it
leaped about the floor, and jumped
UP and down as though it were
alive! Ie couldn't be left alone a
minute.
1t leaked all over, and was, Of
course, heavy to move to mop up
the floor.
All of these things were remedied
from time to time, but when in the
course of nine months it had been
repaired six times, only to commence
all over again, I threw in the sponge.
The only thing to be said in its