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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1917)
Then take the bleach that the writer makes, and has to sell at a nominal cost, and for a very small wash use one teacupful of the bleach, and up to three Put teacupsful for a very large wash bleach in some small vessel, add a litt!, warm water, and then |>our into jour wash, distributing it around well over the top. Then churn the clothes again with the washboard to gut the bleach all distributes). Then let the wash stand in the bleach for about half an hour, or until the water cools sufficient ly so that you can bear your hands in it. Then churn them up aga n for a minute or so and wring out the sheets first as they will require no rubbing. You will then have room in your tub to put in your wash board and lm>k over the bal- .¡^ivr<' The s now done. Clothes washed in thin get two pieces of sand-pn|H-r, one fairly way can be drie<I indoors or basement coarse, nnd another fine Then cut it just as well an outdoors and be sanitary in the middle nnd fold half the sheet about four double Lay thin on the — the bleach makes them so without corner of the kitchen table or side-board, To the G ood P eople of L ents , ' clothes are in the water. If there is boiling. lay V. ur buti her knife lint on the A nd E specially the L adies W ho ■ not sufficient, pour in a little more until Then put your colored clothes in the coarser grade first nnd commence to do T heir O wn W ashing at H ome : I a light suds remains after it is stirred same rinse water, stir them good, rub it on the sand paper, bearing quite The Lents Live-and-Iet-live Harber I up well. Care should be taken to have heavily to the edge <>f the knife. Rub wring them out.. Then empty your ’ i one side a little and then turn it over at 9137 Foster Road is an old-time laun , sufficient soap to consume all the dirt wash tub, put some more cold water in j nnd rub the other side until the knife dryman who has had, in his time, in the clothes, whereas too much soap and rinse the colored clothes again, If is bright and clean, and until the side ten years experience in that business, ten ls t> “set” the dirt rather than you are going to hang them in the «un 1 edge begins to get thin. Then repeat and understands the profession from A loosen it, besides being a waste of soap. the same process on the fine sand-paper, and air put a little table salt in the last nnd when you fancy it is thin and sharp ‘o Z. He proposes to tell the go<>d In using a washing powder such as water as this will set the colors and enough, smooth the edge perfectly on u ladies of Lents how they can eliminate Fels-Naptha, or Pearline, or Gold Dust, stmsith velvet whet stone. prevent the sun from failing them. “Blue Monday" washday, and how the the powder should first be dissolved in Pocket knives ami all manner of tools In washing black clothes such HH frailest lady can do a big washing in a a little warm water in any small vessel. can l>e sharpened readily in thia way, sateen skirts, shirts and black socks, and even a child of ten years can few hours with little or no fatigue or It can then be poured in'o the wash and nnd all manner of black g.ssls they sharpen knives as well ns nn ex distress to herself, and how clothes can tested until you have just the right should not be washed nor rinsed in the perienced grinder and sharpener. Scis be washed and thoroughly cleansed amount. can be sharpened readily in thia water used to wash the white clothes sors without boiling them and without the 1 When your clothes have soaked in the , way if one understands how to hold the as that covers them with white lint ( scissors to give them the proper bevel, aid of blueing. These results are ac light suds over night, or for a few hours Take a bucket or convenient vessel and however, scissors ahould not be nut on complished by the use of a bleach that at least, wring the clothes out. It is the wash board, towels, put water in it about ns hot ns you can the coarse sand paper, but on the fine the writer manufacturers, which is used always best to have a good wringer, neck bands, wrist bands ami such places stand, then put in some washing powder sand-paper and the smooth stone only. in nearly all laundries. but if none is available the hands will on shirts. Have a bur of common wash or thin soap, stir up well, put your Use Bleach in the Bath The whitest thing in existence is cot have to do In summer the cold water Now the writer will state that in ton when fully grown and ready to pick will not be too cold to be agreeable to 1 soap handy so that if you should happen black clothes in. let them soak just a a bath, nothing is better to assist at harvest. If we e'eanse the clothes the hands, but in the winter months a to need it you could cle-nse extremely few minutes, then put in*a little bleach taking than this clothes blench or to cure thoroughly and bring the cotton back little warm water will have to Ire added soiled parts. Should you have towels and at once waah and rinao them in burns. In taking a bath, soak yourself to its original whiteness there will be to make this operation more pleasant or dish rags so extremely soiled that warm water and hang up to dry. Black thoroughly with warm water and mild the bleach does ■ <>t cleanse them, sort clothes are generally the e a a i e a t soap, then rub on the blench and the no need to fill up the cloth with blu ing The clothes should be punched down them out by themselves, put some hike washed, but should rightly be washed dirt and the old skin nml the sun tana to make it lily white. The practice is will slip off quick Iv just as if bv magic. with the end of the wash-board before aagalvamzml pail b by themselves. absurd and uncalled for, except to put Then use thin alum water, five cents wringing. In case any clothing is blood-stained, worth of pulverized or crystal alum in a little blueing in the starch to take Then put in it must be thoroughly soaked ami a quart of warm water, first to dissolve When the white clothes have been ing powder or thin soap away its yellowness. When blueing is it, cork it tight and it will last until put in cotton goods or linens, and they taken out you can put the colored your stained wash and punch it down rinsed in clear cold water before putting used up. Rob this thin alum water on under the water, and put in probably it even into the cold suds. Soak over i clothes right into the same water, press are then washed with soap, the soap after the bleach ami then again rinse half a teacupful of bleach, and let it night if possible Laundries use oxalic the alum water off with clear warm kills the blueing and makes the clothes ing them down well with the upper end yellow. If the blueing is left out and of the wash board. If there is not come to a slow boil. As soon as they acid to set blueing, and thia is what water and wipe dry and your bath is perfect. the clothes are bleached back to their enough of the light suds left, add a commence to boil remove them from uses up the linens nnd makes them And as the writer never tires of say the fire, punch them arouad a little and ' I little more thin soap as before rotten. The blench I After make never ing that cleanliness is next to Godliness natural whiteness, no blueing is nec- j they have been punched a little with lift them out into your tub and rub i harms the fabrics in the lea-t, and I and a perfect bath done quickly by the cess ary It is better to prepare wash the night | the board, wring them out and place them out a little more on your wash have washed sheets and pillow - cases assistance of the clothes bleach is sure two and three times a week for five cleanliness before, or at least a few hours in ad- 1 them in the clothes basket, being care ! lioard. The writer also never tires of saying ful that there is no piece among them vance of the time it is needed. Fill 1 Then take your colored clothes and years at a stretch, and they did not thnt we should ask ourselves every day This was when I ran a where shall my soul spend its eternity, your wash tub with sufficient cold water that is going to fade and spoil the put them in the same water that you wear out to cover the white clothes you have on others. used for the white clothes, but only put rooming house. Never put dry white in heaven in immortal glory or in hell everlasting torment and punish Then empty out yoJr cold suds and in two or three pieces ata time. Wash clothing in warm suds under any con nnd hand to wash, then take Feis Naptha or ment. Also the writer never tires of Thin sets the dirt and saving if we miss heaven anil immortal Pearline Washing Powder, or take com fill your tub with water too hot for the them clean on your wash-board, but sideration mon washing soap and cut it in thin hands to start with Then add a small don’t let them remain in the water that makes it hard to wash out, also shrinks glory by neglecting to keep the com When clothing in first mandments or otherwise tljat it would slices. Place in a stew pan or lard pail, amount of the washing powder or soap has got bleach in. When the colored the fabrics. have been just about t4*n thousand place on the stove, allowing it to come to the hot water, and stir well. Don't clothes are all washed and back in their washed in this way it will not look times better for us had we never been exactly right tin-first couple of wash to a slow boil; then set it back to sim put much soap in, as the clothes just basket, then turn out the swatar band bom. mer, stirring frequently with a .¿ig having come out of the cold suds will rinse out your tub good. 'IWm fill your ings, but as soon as the old blueing is I The Bleach may Is* obtains! nt the L. E. Wiley, spoon or stick until thoroughly dis have nearly enough in. Then put your tub up again with plenty of warm all bleached out then they will be per following stores: Foster Road; Floyd Murphy, 9137 Foster solved. Pour enough into the cold water white clothes in, placing the bed sheets water, cool enough to be comfortable fectly white ami will wash easy.* l.’ isd; I, M. Quinn. 5941 92nd St. and in your wash tub to make light suds, ir one place, by themselves, and churn for the hands. Put in your sheets first Knife Sharpener K.itzky Bros., 67H1 24 92nd St. then put in your white clothes and all the clothes thoroughly with the and rinse them and wring them out; ?>'ow the writer will mention some Respectfully submit ted, rustle them around with your hands to upper i end of the wa-h board or clothes then the balance of your white clothes thing else very convenient to the house F loyd M urphy . see that a light suds remains after the stick. i and wring them out. Your white wash hold and to the housewife. She should PAID ADVERTISEMENT