People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — Flannels. [ARTICLE]

Flannels.

“Last winter,” says a housekeeper, “I had SSO worth of fine flannels, used in my family, destroyed in the washing —this, too, before the winter was half over. In the spring I sent my daughter to Pratt institute, in Brooklyn, to take a course in laundry work. I have now replaced the flannels, and they are washed each week by our new expert. Flannels and embroideries are the two things that the average or even the exceptionally good washerwoman does not do well, and as not to do well means in their case to ruin beyond redemption I consider it a valuable thing to have one member of the family who understands the method.’’—New York Times.