Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1915 — TOWELS FOR THE DISHES [ARTICLE]

TOWELS FOR THE DISHES

Crinkled Crepe Makes the Ideal Material That Can Be Employed in This Respect. The best dish towels for polishing glasses are not of checked linen toweling, as most people take for granted, but of ordinary thin seersucker, or crinkled crepe, as it is called in the shops. This material makes ideal glass towels, for it will not shed lint and absorbs moisture rapidly. New and perfectly clean cross-barred linen toweling is fairly satisfactory, but the moment such a towel is past its first youth, or if it has been used more than once before laundering, glasses begin to show the annoying specks of lint that are fatal to a brilliant polish. Dish towels should be rinsed after each use, and once a week they should be boiled ten minutes in water softened with sal soda or some good washing powder. It is not necessary to rob them—after the boiling, rinse in several waters and hang up to dry in the sun. Just before they are quite dry fold them, pressing smoothly with the hands, and hang up the folded towels again to dry thoroughly before putting away. They will not require ironing if thus treated. v The woman who hesitates at using washing p~wder or sal soda to wash her dish towels should consider whether it is easier to scrub out grease by main strength in order to make dish towels last a little longer or to relieve herself of unpleasant labor, and, if need be, hem half a dozen new towels a little oftener. There are articles which pay for dainty and careful laundering in order to preserve fine

fabric and costly handiwork —but dish towels cannot be included under this head.