The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1903, Page 10

llow the example of Essex in a nd win fame | doing wup | as they should be done | work a fad of MEMEE ! H i "he ~ THERE 1J A WRY To LERN LRCE ON WA HBOARD., prosy one, 1s managea in‘this high class laund a sclentific manner. Tabie salt is put in the starch to make the ciothes The starch fron smoothly and quickly. is very delicately s ned and there s no such thing as cloudiness, To make it very glossy is mixed with scapy water s the luster to the linen. When it comes to ironing sctence steps in and bears the burden during the work by power and simplifying it for laborer. el ‘heated mangle is used for clothes. All straight art ed through it. And the wide grasps the sheets and turns h and dry. The mangle is principie of the wringer and great heated rollers, passing over the makes them dry and smooth and at once. Id can manage a mangle, and one saves the work of twenty ha Even cuffs can be put througi i it is the best of all things for pii- tablecloths and all things thal can be flattened out When there is a hand froning to be done low cases. the ironers are provided with holders of asbestos cioth, and the irons are rubbed with a clean cloth soaked in kerosene to them from sticking. Boys are constantly kept at work sandpapering the L rubbing them with kerosene, which prevent irse, kept near the fire; and rying them dry and smooth to the = The hot, for ns are never allowed to get red they will not hold their heat after they have been made red hot: they let cold quickly, for the ds are heated slightly by little ¥ encugh to make it hot judt agaln or are ¢ r a tremendous Aisa s box a o v p xa £ tire ing the Laundry. T er of a well k ndry g o end K laundry The tubs, whict order, are fitt paratus above, mu bath. At the side faucets. A network of w s fitted t each tub, about half The tubs are a atssol n a gallon of b this a quarter of made by soap. When th When time tc fitted into tk and ifted and laid upon the network. A heavy lather of s t and then the sprink on from above, and for half an ho e hot water runs through the clothes, carrving soap and d all with it. No rinsing is ces- the clothes T mselves in this water. The bluing processes are carried out with some clothes; others are slightly solored with coffee, &8 in the case of ace; and others are given a gray tone by the slightest bit of coloring. The slothes which are of all grades are treat- +d intelligently and the reward Is great and just. The matter of starching, Which Is & Work done In this manner, without rub- bing the clothes with the knuckles, does not wear out the cloth. The goods can be sent again and again to the laundry. A BSecret of the Laundry. For the laces there is a tubbing process and the use of & real washboard. But it is not used in washboard fashion. The iaces and fine linen are squeezed out on the bogrd and are lifted full of water and squeezed out again, the only pressure be- ing that of the hand. A shower of water would wear them out, whereas they will bear the hand squeezing process nicely. Very fine laces are sewed upon a bottle. The bottle is covered with cloth. Then the lace is sewed upon it. The bottle is now flung into a wash boller, made very lathery with soft soap, made from gly- cerin and white soap, and the laces are bolled. They are rinsed by throwing the bottle into clear water, and finally they are taken off the bottle and dried by pin- ning them down to a cloth. Inexpensive laces are dried while on the bottle by turning them in the sun; but the cheaper and mory durable laces are taken off, quickly pinned upon a cloth and let dry. Large lace pieces such as table tops are pinned upon the clothesline. But they are left out only about five minutes. To dr them, pin them to the line, let the breeze flap through them, and bring them quickly. That is the way to dry all the table covers and other articles that used about the house. If to the laundry there are brought clothes with big uneven spots upon them the spots are rubbed with lard. Then the clothes are put into & tub by themselves and put through the processes. All clothing 1s quickly sorted and the spotted pleces are put into tubs by them- selves, each with its little coating of lard over the spotted portion. ‘When white goods have turned yellow the whole 18 dipped in kerosene, which is the enemy of yellowness. The clothes are wet with it—and of course they are not put near the fire—and they are put into the tub of lather and are washed in the usual way. All ribbons are washed in socap and water and drjed by the shaking process. The are put upon a line and shaken; or are run through the fingers. If the ribbons are long they are wound upon a round piece of wood. This s bigger than a rolling pin and the ribbon, while damp, {s wound round and round it. It should be taken off before stone dry and slightly ironed. Ribbon ddes not need swift, hard ironing. The titied American woman who runs a laundry makes a specialty of her rib- bon work. The ancient method of drying handker- chiefs .upon glass is a good one. If the handkerchief be of lace no better way ot drying it is known. But, In fact, for all but coarse handkerchiefs, the glass is the best thing there is. Do not select the window pane, if you do this at home, but have an old mirror or an old plece of glass protected with a rim for the sake of the hands. The taking out of spots is one of the laundresses’ Every re- movable and the only difficulty is in find- ing the right agent. For ink spots ox- alic acid can be used. The spot is wet and'the acid is the »plied. But this is & deadly poison and the laundress must guard it carefully. Salts of lemon will “also take out spots. And for mjinor spots lain lemon juice and common table salt form a good combination ‘The laundress must occasionally work In acids and she must learn not to touch them-to her tongue more than she would touch her tongue to the stove The secret in the removal of spots with acids is not to let the acid‘remain on too long, or it wiil eat a 'hole in the goods; and aiso to let water run through the material. Whegyou are working ju spots be sure that you have a running faucet under which you can lay the goods. The high class laundress who Is earn- ing her living sgon learns that running water. is a powerful agent. Constant dropping wears away the stone; and a constant stream of running water. put through a fabric. will take out stains when you littie think that it will do so. Very often. that which seemed to be a 8pot Is obsiinate simply because water has never been run through it in sufMcient uuantity Jo loosen the stain and wash it out. secrets spot is any Managing a Business. The management of a laundry business is like the management of any other business. The proprietor of a store does not necessarily sweep the sidewalk. nor does he do up packages. The manager of a laundry may sit in her private office and still have the business go on with perfect accuracy. The profit from the business is said to be very great. Soap and water are cheap and, if the hand labor can be reduced to little by using plenty of water, then there is no reason why a woman should not find it a very profitable business. . Laundresses of France who wash their clothes in a stream find the work quick and easy. The city, up-to~date laundress can plan and manage and so arrange her business as to conduct something profita- ble and easy In a fleld not fully worked. The next step from laundry work is that of the cleaner. ‘Really there is scarcely a step at all. Very often things that are “cleaned" are only washed carefully: and the cleaner gets his prices for deing it. The mysterious process of cleaning can be studied; and the laundress can take fine lace dresses, silk walsts, cashmere gowns and similar articles and give them back like new. But of course she will have to charge well. And in charging intelligently is one of the secrets of busi- ness success in any line. AUGUSTA PRESCOTT. 7 ey RISBON 5 \ B SNAFPING 1T THRSUGH THE FINGERS . VALUE OF LUNG GYMNASTICS. Throat diseases aliowed to run uncheck- ed becauge they may be €light will make the voice unpleasant in time. It will be- comec hoarse und indistinct Onions and lemon julce are both excel- lent tonics for the voice. Some physiclans prescribe a preparation of peroxide of hy- drogen for singers. Baked apples. the yolks of raw eggs and buttermilk are said {0 have properties that improve and clear the voice. Tobacco ard alconol are in- Jurlous and highly spiced food is not good. i yn are govod for 2dies the vocal chords. possessing ingrediencs that are beneficial and certain fruits are But deep breathing of pure zir and exercise will soon have a beneflcial efféct on the voice. Deep breathing exercises will change a man's falsetto voice to a full and rieh one, will cure sore throats and give flex- fbility to the tones. Deep breathing Is really a system of lung gymnastics. The bad voice is best known to the mu- sical directors who choose girls for the choruses of operas. They 4o not sxpsct musical ability among applicants for places In the chorus, but they . voices that wi monize A girl with a ¢ seem an acquis o sings the dren, as mu as i v oom. Once t > voice be An Inexpensive Perfume Jar. Take of rose leaves, maple leav leaves of pine and X your J Break t § TREING Oyr Iy O833TingTE J~Por. the petals fr year around to keep molding. Pour into this jar one drop 1 . ten drops of gerar ¥ drops of gly into bits, Jrops watar Hold this far under the nose w exhausted feel o A wonderful square in Yokohama of the god Diabut over sixty-thrge feet of this great -& ' of which.is pure go