A Very Necessary Reform.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6090, 21 November 1887, Page 4

A Very Necessary Reform.

♦cHINTS FOR EVERYONE. The chief characteristic of American Laundry work, as everyone who visits the United States knows very well, is the spotless whiteness of the linen and the perfect finish and colour imparted by the starcher. In no country in the world is more attention given to these details, or with better results; and it is no uncommon thing for Americans visiting the Colonies to declare that Australian Laundries are behind the age in a great many things, and in none more so than in the " get up" of the starched goods. A shirt, a collar, or a sleeve band innocent of grime is considered clean and presentable, whether its colour be grey, blue, or yellow ; and very few who notice these peculiarities are sufficiently particular to insist upon a very necessary reform. By using GILBERT'S GLOSS, or LAUNDRY STARCH, withont the slightest additional labour, a perfect finish js imparted, and the whiteness of the lily supersedes the bile of the wattle and the dirty grey peculiar to inferior starch and wintry rain clouds. Those who desire the luxury of irreproachable linen— and what-, lady or gentleman does not ? — should insist upon their laundress using GILBERT'S GLOSS, OR LAUNDRY STARCH,, which any grocer can obtain for you without any appreciable increase in cost. Because common, Continental and other inferior starches are obtainable at a halfpenny or penny per lb leBS, do not deny a first-class article atrial. Although there is a slight difference in the first cost, i Gilbert's is by far the most economical in the end. By its use results are obtainable which other starches used in double quantities can never produce, and it will be at once apparent to any reasoning mind that superlative quality can never be sold at as low prices as common goods prepared with less care from second and third rate materials. Eemember that C. GILBERT, OF Buffalo, New York, and Desmoines, lowa, holds the Premier position of a Manufacturer of Fine Starches in America, and that the brands which have established his reputation in the largest cities of the New World are now obtainable in Australasia. Wholesale Agents for Canterbury, KING BROS., Lichfield Stbeet, GHRiSTcauRCH.