Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1950 — Page 25
Home Laundry Ways Give You Workless Days; Housewives—Check the Task You Hate the Most It's Simple if You Have Right Equipment
Modern Appliances Lift Household Tasks Out of Drudgery Class -
that took five hundred years.
No more getting up with the sun, hanging the wash-
ing by eight o'clock so it will be dry by mid-afternoon.
And even farther back, there's no more bundling the |
clothes off to the river bank to rub the dirt out of them on a stone slab.
Some places in the world they still do it, but not in |
America.
It's a push-button job now. And it doesn’t have to be |
Monday. It can be any day, or even night. Throw a tubful into a washer when you go to bed,
some soap powder, and take them out, spun dry, in the |
morning. Then, if you have a whole home laundry, you toss
them into a dryer, no lugging them into the backyard and | hanging them on a line with a mouthful of clothespins. |
» » » » . ” water, the greatest solvent for dirt man has found. And
the middle of a wash, one that recovers, or reheats fast. An automatic washer draws freely on the hot-water
tank. And add to that. a. round of. showers. for-the + family, and a sink full of dishes, and it takes a big |
efficient heater. And, oddly enough, woman has man to thank for
these washday freedoms. Not that he’s bragging about |
it. He watched her work, found a better way, then by ‘» gradual stages, ever so slow, he made a mechanical washer. Next came the discovery of gas and electric power
and the small motor. It was the small motor that took |
over the handwork on the washer. It took a long time, as men’s minds work, between
the power washer and the amomatle, § Almost 30 years,
| But eventually, eventually, and as surely as the coming of } Monday’ 8 | sun, washing became less and less of a chore.
VW OMEN S bridge clubs can meet on Mondays now. And |
= . 3 » » » | AND EFFORT is down to zero, just a little lifting and | that’s at a minimum because of the high-speed spinners | | which de-water washed clothes.
It was never written into the Constitution but there's
far more freedom in the power washer than in the right | | of women to vote.
-So-the-world; snd the Festless mind of man, lifted the drudgery of keeping a family cleanfrom woman
| who once truly believed she was born into slavery over the slab of stone on the river bank. Or the washtub in | | the basement, on the back porch, over the wringer and | the iron and the dozens of trips to the backyard with a ‘prayer on her lips for sun.
And in the winter it was the basement. several days
of tedious drying,
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FOR WOMAN it has meant the coming of a freer world, 500 years of evolution from the river bank to the
. { Monday bridge club. WHAT IT takes to keep clean is plenty of hot |
Quite-a trip it's been. But the fare has been cheap,
: {and still is, that means a hot-water tank which doesn’t run cold in |
Almost anyone can have her complete freedom for
| the Monday bridge club with little more than a rod.
Simple, isn’t it, if you know “how and have. what. it... Te And it takes very little to get the magic home laun-
| dry-equipment you want today.
But in the intense scramble for the unfolding world of luxuries. too'many have overlooked the fundamentals.
| And less work over the family washing is certainly no | luxury. This week housewives will be able to see the finest
in laundry equipment in actual operation. Once they do, they will see how foolish it is to strug-
| gle with old-fashioned equipment when the new washers. _ironers, dryers and hot water tanks may be had almost for the | asking, Dlg a simple budget plan.
have |
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Scrubbing, rubbing . .. rubs you the wrong way
Hanging ; = ; ms wr = you . . . on the ropes
“Head in clouds | . . « of steam
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How Do You Answer These Questions?
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*Should you have both dryer and ironer? = [ ]
«Have you the equipment best suited to your needs?
«Are you sure you know the advantages of newer duto- | matic-type equipment and how little -it costs? -
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+Do you wish to work less and have some fun on wish duys? | | [ |
of all answers to the above questions are “yes” you have eliminated BLUE MONDAY. If you mark one or more ‘‘neo;"” turn the pages for the answers in this- -section..