SEE THE SAVAGE!

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1928, Page 2

SEE THE SAVAGE!

When Eve selected her new season’s dress in the Garden of Eden, she did not have to worry about washing it on Mondays; but her daughters have not been so lucky. Right down the ages, one of women’s problems has been washing day. Once upon a time,. it was fashionable to carry, the dirty clothes to the nearest river, and smack them hard upon a handy flat rock. Needless to say, the practice did not tend to lengthen the life of the said clothes. Then came the washing tub, with its accompanying hard labour, and the continual stoking of the fire. The introduction of gas coppers was a. step further ahead, but modern housewives regard even gas coppers as behind the times. To-day, the electric washing machine is the thing, and the greatest of electric washing and drying machines in the Savage. The wringerless Savage, with its wonderful feature of “spinrinse, spin-dry,” enables you to launder beautifully a large tub of soiled clothes complete, from clothes hamper to clothes line, in the time it takes the average washer just to wash —and to do it without struggling and straining over steaming tubs, fishing out heavy soaked pieces and feeding them singly through a hazardous wringer. From hamper to line in eighteen minutes or less, with no handling of the clothes. That is the Savage way. The capacity of the machine is equal to seven double sheets at one time, and the cost of the electricity sufficient to run the machine for five hours is only three-halfpence. Ninety-eight per cent of the washing machines operating in New Zealand to-day are Savages. Another worth-while modern appliance is the Mercer vacuum electric cylinder, which supplies in abundance hot water at an average running cost of onlv fourpence per day. Every daughter of Eve is invited to be present at the Mackay Street showrooms of Messrs Harley and Co. Ltd., at 3 p.m. to-morrow (Friday), when demonstrations of the Savage and Mercer will be given.—A.D.