INDOOR DRYING

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19639, 27 July 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)

INDOOR DRYING

GAS STOVES SOLVE TROUBLES. Of course it is much better for your “ washing " to be dried out of doors, where the wind and the air and sun can get at it, hut when clothes have to'he dried indoors due to continual bad weather, and you have no modern drying cupboard, your gas cooker will get you over the trouble. Run half a dozen lines backwards . and forwards across the scullery, upon which hang the cloilics in the usual way.

No light your gas oven and leave the oven door wide open, leave the scullery door slightly open to allow the steam to escape, and as the hot air rises the clothes will be quickly dried. The cost of gas is small compared with the good result of getting the washing out of the way in record time. If you have no gas oven, and a bedsitter," get *an old umbrella and take off the cover; then catch the handle on to a string stretched across a corner of the room.

Small articles, such as handkerchiefs, collars, and so on, can he hung on each poiyz and dried quickly, while the largf/' and heavier articles can be slung over several of the wires at onct. In Small Kitchens. In small kitchens, where there is not really room for a clothes-line, some rope may be wound around the table legs two or three times and carefully fastened. In all four sides the washing may be lumg in Ihc same way as if an outdoor olothes-iinc wci o used. Naturally the side of the table facing Hie open Are will dry quickest, so the table can be turned round. Where Ihe weather is changeable and bright intervals occur in which it is possible lo do a little drying, remember that clothes hung oyer the rails of a eloihes-horse and clipped together at the edges with small clip pegs can he put in Ihc garden in the breeziest weather and they cannot blow away. On ihc approach of rain, it is only necessary lo close the “horse” and carry it indoors to complete the drying by I lie lire. —An exchange.