The Laundress’ Lamant.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 14, 7 April 1906, Page 13

The Laundress’ Lamant.

Bless my heart! Why was ! ever horn? Toilhiij ami nmiluig front morning till night, ami never a rest! if matt was made to mourn, what was 41 laundress made for - certainly not to sing. My hands .ire nearly charred oIT working in filthy suds, washing other people's clothes, ami other people’s floors. Well, well, I suppose what cannot he cured must b(* endured. • Hello. Mary! what’s the matter, you ••Ont \»f sorts. Margaret. I should think I am. Life is a burden.’’ “Oh. nonsense, Mai y. you have a tit of the blues it will soon pass oft’.’’ -The blues might pass off, Margaret, if that were all; but my poor sore hands and aching back remain.” ‘ Why. sakes alive, Mary, what has put your hands in that slate*? What hard thick knuckles you’ve got, and how ragged your nails are. too!” -Hard knuckles ami ragged nails! Bah! \» hat is that to me. I wish you heard the grumbling I have to stand about hard flanjiels and ragged clothes after I have washed them. Hard knuckles and ragged nails are not my only troubles.” “Yes, but why should the flannels or your knuckles be hard, or your nails or skin be cut up in that way?” “Why. surely, you know, Margaret, you do washing as well as 1.” -Yes, but I hear no grumbling, ami see my hands, they arc as soft and fresh al any lady's.” -Why. so they are. Margaret; now. how is that?” “I tell you what. Mary, you want to have -(Hi. the doctor may cure my hands, but ho won't mend the clot ties or soften the ita’inels.” •■(>n, yes, in* will.” ”A doctor meutl clothes ami soften ttaunels! You always have you* little joke, Margaret.” -Seriously. Mary, I am not joking, and I will tell you a secret. Have you ever heard of Sir Charles Cameron? VV <*ll. ho is one of tho highest authorities in England. lie was President of the Itoynl ( ollege of Surgeons, ami has a whole string of h*tters at the end of his name. Well. 1 read a simple statement ho made one day. ami it cured me of sort* hands, hard knuckles, aching back, softened the, flannels, ami prevented the clothes going so “Whal a funny doctor, ami what was It you read?” -He said there was something he used himself, am! I;e recommended it to women when washing clothes; and I said to myself. 1 will try that. I found out that I tie late Queen Victoria herself used the same in tier cast l<*s in England, ami that further convinced me. You know. Mary, these people have a moans of knowing things that we poor people take years to find out.” -Well, what did Sir Charles Cameron say?" "Well, it was simply this: *1 have carefully analysed specimens "f the Sunlight Soap. . . . The points in the composition of this soap that are most valuable are Its freedom from free alkali. Hie large p<*reciitage of fatty acids which it contains, and tin* purity of the materials employed In its preparation. I employ the Soap, ami I’rojn my actual experience of it can strongly recommend it.’ “I have myself foil ml from experience and it stands to reason- that soaps loaded with alkali must ruin the hands and destroy tin* clothes. I found there was m» sense in burning my hands during the day •and rubbing glycerine on during the night. They never got time to got better. Sunlight Soap being made from pure oils ami fats cannot hurt tho hands or the clothes. Imagine the foolishness of rubbing the athiltorat ion of common soap Into tho skin and into th<* clothes, ami then having to wash out not merely tho original dirt of I ho clothes, but the soap adulteration as well tnai is. washing dirt with dirt. Simple Simon could scarcely do worse.” -Oh, M.irgaret, I wish I had known of Inis before. My hands might have been like yours today. I will try it in my next w ashing.” ”l»o, Mary, ami be sure it Is Sunlight •*.Xote. -This is absolutely a f:iet. at:■! It means in ev<*ry-day l.annuago that tin skm cannot, be hurt, even if the hands are Im niersed for hours In tin* -mis of Sunlight Soap, !»<*eau<<* tho snap i made from oils and fats pure emmtrh I" ''at; mil there Is none of that burning - a-, ion lh.it h caused by alkaline poi.-oe.-