Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1912 — Umbrella Bath. [ARTICLE]

Umbrella Bath.

"Washing umbrellas a specialty,” was the red-letter notice printed On cards distributed by a West side laundress. When seen she carried a bundle of umbrellas which customers had yielded up fearfully for a thorough scrubbing. , “Why should umbrellas be sent to the washtub?” she was asked. "Don’t they get washed often enough by rain and snow?” “Often enough,” she said, “but not the right way. At the end of winter every umbrella that has seen much service is beginning to look shabby. What it needs is a hot soapy bath. That is the kind it gets at my house, with soft brush massage thrown in to rub the spots off and an application of glycerine to the ribs to prevent rusting. "An umbrella that has undergone that treatment and been hung out open in the sunshine to dry will look like new.”