ON KEEPING CLEAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 28

ON KEEPING CLEAN

CLOTHING AND PERSON

Before undertaking any work on a car consideration should be given both to the keeping of oneself as clean as possible and getting rid of unavoidable dirt afterwards. The easiest way to keep clean is to have a suit of overalls. An old coat, dustcoat, or the like makeshift bears no comparison with overalls. It is useless, however, having, as some do, a suit of overalls donned occasionally and then just pressed in a ball and shoved into the locker or some odd corner, or under the seat, merely to be out of the way and out of sight. Overalls will

wash, and wash well, better than any old coat or suit, and so can always be neatly folded away in small space or done up like a parcel and carried where they will remain clean till wanted. They should be kept out of contact with tools, boxes, the dirt of floors arid everything of that: kind, oil, grease, and dust being only too glad to part company with these and attach themselves to cloth, for which they have a natural affinity. Pulling dirty overalls over a clean suit does not necessarily mean clean clothes. Having thus provided for keeping one's suit clean, the next thing is to think of one's skin. Glpves being out of the question for most jobs, it is a wise precaution to fill the nails and cuticles with soap or some one of the available preparations before commencing work. And here it may also be mentioned that a cake of soap, or, even better, a tin of soap powder, for the driver's own special use, is an excellent accessory to have always about the car* even though a hand towel is not carried. Clean hands are not obtained by wiping over and over on a soiled and greasy rag. Warm water can generally be obtained from the radiator. If this is too rusty for use it may mean a very dirty face. A clean chin and dirty hands are poor companions. If cogitation is necessary it is-advisable to do it all with the head, keeping the hands well out of it. .