JOY Of HOUSEKEEPING

Evening Star, Issue 19941, 10 August 1928, Page 2

JOY Of HOUSEKEEPING

One reason why housekeeping electrically becomes such a joy is the elimination of much of what, for want of a better word, might be called messiness. To-day the household duties may be performed with, such ease-and cleanliness'that they might almost be accomplished in san evening dress. Much of the trouble in days gone by was the cleaning up afterwards necessitated by the awkward methods that gave our grandmothers so many heartaches or backaches. Take the now method of clothes washing as a case in point. Filling the washer with water, dropping in the clothes, switching on, and then running them through the electrically operated wringer constitutes virtually all the labour in an electric clothes washing. The cleaning up afterwards involves only the swilling out of the washing machine. An hour from beginning to end is all the time required for doing the washing for a medium size household. Every housewife knows how long the old-fashioned wash tub method takes, with its scrubbing and rubbing, rinsing and wringing ; standing over clouds of hot steam and in pools of soapy water. Electricity, has brought may gifts to womenkind—-it will bring many more.