Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1915 — MODERN METHODS TAKE AWAY BLUE MON DAYS. [ARTICLE]

MODERN METHODS TAKE AWAY BLUE MON DAYS.

The modern clothes boiler was once considered to be as important to the washing as the rubbing hoard, but that was before women had come to realize the purifying qualities in nature’s great whitener —the sun. Although at one time the boiling of clothes was deemed necessary to keep them white, there are those today who think that it has the opposite affect, and that unless they are boiled Just the correct length of time, the process does not improve the color. Those who have tried both ways declare that the clothes are fully as white when they are washed thoroughly, rinsed and hung in the sun to dry as when they are boiled. A washing machine is not only a great convenience, , but enables one to use boiling water to wash the clothes, which would not be possible if they were washed with the hands on a board. Not only does this process of washing save a great amount of work that has made a bugbear of .washday, but it prevents the unpleasant steam and odor from the work which easily permeated every part of the hpuse and told the story all the morning that “this is washday.” Lifting of clothes from the boiler has always been one of the hardest and most unpleasant features of the washing. This and filling and emptying of the boiler are all done away with by the non-boiling process and the whole labor lightened so that many women do not look upon laundry work as a necessary hardship which they thought they must endure, but they see It now as no harder than many other lines of the week’s work.