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Washing Clothes

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
March
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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If there's any plan by whicb washday can be robbed oL its disagreeable belongings, it will be welcome, we are sure. And a correspondent of the Portland Transcript gives the following method : For a family of six, cut into thin shavings one and one-half pounds of good bar soap, and dissolve it in a pail of boiling water. Kather more than half fill two tubs with warm water, and add a pail of hot suds - half each. Put the clothes in for a twenty-four bours' soak - those most soiled in one tub by themselves. The following morning nothing will be necessary but to put them through the wringer, through two waters, the blueing in the last. A neat housekeeper will observe if any specially soiled spots - wristbands, cuffs, and the like - need a little chaling with the iingers before going through the wringer. Clothing washed in this way will come out to the satisfaction of the most fastidious, and all the time usually spent in scrubbing and boiling and filling the house with stearn, sa ved, be sides - prime consideración - articles will wear more than twice as long, as it is evident that flve minutes' scrubbing will wrench out the garments yastly more than ordinary wear. I - : neis may be cleaned in the same manner- white flannels turning out white and soft- except that it is believed that the suds and the rinse water had better be cold for flannels, whatever the process of washing, to prevent shrinking. A little gentle pulling, both ways, when flrst hung on the line, will prevent Qannels shrinking An acquaintance of ours, a very particular housekeeper, lias done her own family washing in this manner for a year past, without either boiling, or scrubbing or fretting : and she declares that washing has lost its old time terrors, with its "Scrub, scrub, scold, scold,scrnb, acrub away; A de'il a bit of oomfort is there on a washinir day." And her husband says that instead of a "picked-up dinner," she gets the best dinner of the week on Monday. It is fair to state that he turns the wringer.

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Old News
Michigan Argus