Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1951 — Page 48
You Have a Bargai
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With Your Machine
Insteadesof nodding in doc agreement with Mark Twain's oftquoted remark that nobody does
anything about the weather, the of efficiency.
modern housewife has the pdwer| to make her own weather —— at least on wash day. : | As a matter of fact, the tradi-|
tional Monday wash day is fast|each individual piece, the modern mem disappearing from the homemak- homemaker simp and whether the damp
er's calendar, sun is shining at the time she de-|
{le brought about by the develop- and broken clothes-lines are elim-|
ment of the automatic electriciinated entirely, along with the
clothes dryer to its present state dampness that permeated the en[tire house when wet clothes were Now, instead of dumping arm- hung inside during bad weather. loads of wet clothes into a basket,| But the electric dryer cannét lugging it to the hanging line, [take sole credit for easing the stooping and bending to pin up housewife’s laundry burden. Other
ly transfers the electric water heater, the autolaundry from her auto- matic electric washer and the matic washer tothe automatic automatic sitdown electric ironer.
PMY, INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Washday Used To Be A Bugaboo—it Isn't Any
‘part of the washday bargain? |
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. with soap to form a scum that not only gives clothes a gray look
It's always easy to blame some-| iq. to do the family laundry dryer alongside, flips
one or something else when things is a matter of no concern. This complete freedom from the dried electrically.
vagaries of weather has been
go wrong. Maybe that's why you blame your washing machine when “clean” clothes look gray. But have you ever stopped to wonder whether you'vé kept your
You do have a bargain with your washing machine. Even the agitator action of a modern automatic washer can accomplish just so much. Its effectiveness depends on proper pre-treatment of clothes, proper loading of the! washer and proper attention to water conditions and soap or detergent. { And those things are up to you. | So before you decide that your washer is at fault, try taking this! General Electric Consumers In-| stitute washday quiz. Do you give clothes the right! pre-treatment before consigning them to the washer? { Heavily-soiled parts like shirt collars and cuffs and the knees and seats of children’s overalls, | for instance, should be dipped in warm water (to which a little bleach may be added) and scrubed lightly with a soap-rubbed brush (or a detergent - rubbed | prush, if you are going to use a gnythetic detergent in your wash- | ing machine). About Loading Soiled handkerchiefs will come out sparkling-clean if you first place them in a porcelain pan | reserved for the purpose, cover them with water to which one-| third cup of soap and two tablespoons of bleach have been added and heat the water to the boiling point. Then rinse under warm running water and add the handkerchiefs to the washer load. Do you load your washer properly? A standard washer load should not be larger than eight or nine pounds, with only two large pieces | such as sheets—in each load. If your washer can be adjusted || for a partial load of clothes, be sure you include nothing larger than a shirt in the small load. In either case, watch the clothes being washed, If they appear and disappear frequently in the sudsy water, you are not overloading the washer. Do you take steps to soften “hard” water, if necessary?
Scum Forms Hard water salts will combine
but will lodge in clothing fibers, causing them to wear out three times as fast as usual. If you live in a hard-water area (and your waterworks department—or state agency, if you have a well— will tell you if you do), you can soften the water by running it through water-conditioning equipment installed in your home, by using a very large amount. of soap or by adding a packaged water softener or detergent. There are, in fact, acceptable synthetic detergents on the market which will soften water and clean clothes at the same time. And that brings us to the last question.
Do you know what kind of de-|
tergent to use—and how much? The General Eiectric Consum-
ers Institute warns homemakers |
to test a detergent before using
it, to make sure that it is soluble | {
in water of all temperatures used in a washer, that it never forms a floating scum or a sticky precipitate, that it is strong enough to clean clothes without harming fabrics or hands and that it is
economical to use. Be sure you
follow directions on the detergent box when deciding how
much to put in the washer. Be-| cause some detergents are foam-| ing and some are non-foaming,|
the amount of suds formed is not
an indication that you are using
the correct amount. Now what's your
your answers, you can lay the
blame for half-clean, gray clothes
right at your own doorstep.
score? If) there is even one “no” among!
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a switch,! Heating gallons and gallons of
land the clothes are fluffed and [water on a stove or hot plate to p {fill the washtubs through the
The hazards of sudden showers cycles of washing and rinsing was
one of the dreaded chores of oldfashioned wash day. Now an automatic electric water heater makes steaming hot water available at
involved than drawing a bath. © No Rub-a-Dub Instead of the boiler of steam-
bers of the team include the|ing clothes and the knuckle-
{punishing ordeal of rub-a~-dub on la corrugated washboard, modern home laundry is only a matter of minutes. Soiled clothes are placed {in the automatic electric washer, the dial is set, the switch flipped,
and the cycle of tub-filling, sud-
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. It is a matter of record that in numerous tests conducted by home economics departments of universities and electric utility companies the automatic electric ironer has proved not only faster but has turned out better finished work than even the most experis enced hand ironer. So, with weather, work, wringing and worry removed from the home laundry, it is little wonder that women say “welcome” to automatic electric laundry equipment.
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