Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1915 — Homemade Washer. [ARTICLE]

Homemade Washer.

To wash heavy things such as quilts and comforters often means much back-breaking lifting. One housekeeper ingeniously devised a method of lightening her difficulties. When she had put her heavy pieces Into the tub and soaked them well, ghe took an ordinary lard pall and made use of it for a suction washer, pushing it, upside down, on the things, thus drawing the soapy water through 'them. When they were clean she lifted them, without wringing them, hung thenr on the line and poured fresh water over them to rinse them. This made them as .clean, she found, as if she had tired herself out with rubbing them.