LABOUR-SAVING PLAN FOR THE LAUNDRESS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1686, 22 June 1904, Page 24

LABOUR-SAVING PLAN FOR THE LAUNDRESS

A method of washing introduced into Belgium from Germany, where it is much in vogue, saves labour and also the damage to linen eaused by the use cf The operation consists in dissolving a couple of pounds of soap in three gallons of water, as hot as the hand can, bear, and adding to it one tablespoonful of turpentine and three tablespoonsful or liquid ammonia. The compound is well stirred, and then the clothes are* pnt into it. the vessel containing it being covered over as tichtlv as possible. After two or three hours 1 soaking, the clothes are washed out and rinsed in the usual manner./ The best plan is to cut up the soap and dissolve it over the fire m a small quantity of water, and then to add water to it J A*ter the suds have been used once, thev may be reheated and used again, but in that case the addition of another ,ableepoonful each of turpentine ana ammonia will be necessary. Clothes washed by this method are beautifully white, and there is little need torubbing. The ammonia and turpentine have a most purifying effect, but do not in any way injure the linen, and the smell of the turpentine passes off when the colthes are hung out to dry. A Laundry Hint.-A tablespoonful of black pepper put in the first water .n which grey and buff Imens are washed will keep the colours of black or coloured cambrics or muslins from running, and does not harden the water. A little gum arabic imparts a ffloss to ordinary starch.

The healthiest spot on. the earth's surface seems to be a little hamlet in France named Aumone. There are only forty inhabitants, twenty-five of whom are 80 years of age, and one is over 100. J IX|o, Soften Hard Water,, add a little borax. Water thus softened is wholesome for cooking purposes, and is use* ful in the laundry for whitening clothe# and effecting a saving of soap. -