SPONGES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19668, 9 December 1933, Page 20

SPONGES.

A man who has some interest in pearl fisheries has thought of a bright idea. When they fish for pearls it seems that they can also get sponges. Some of these sponges are too small to sell as they are or they may have a slight defect, writes a correspondent of "The Daily Mirror.” He has put them on the market enclosed in various coloured covers — rather like a cellular material. They are called "friction sponges.” The coloured covers will go with your toilet accessories or bothroom colour scheme, and they last, of course, longer than an uncovered sponge, which will "break away” in bits if it is much in use. Sponges, in some bathrooms, gee horribly slimy. I have had a sponge in daily use for many months and it ,s as clean now as on the first day I used it. I never use soap on it. It is never put away without first being rinsed m clear water. And on any fine day it is put on the bathroom window sill U) dry. Sponges should be kept in special net "baskets" when not being used. In this way the surplus water drains from them. Face gloves or flannels should be boiled periodically and always hung up to dry and not left in a scrunched up heap.