You and Your Laundry (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mrs. Christine Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1333870981 ISBN 13: 9781333870980

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

Synopsis

Excerpt from You and Your Laundry

Remember this illustration of the inkspot every time you or any person is led to remark that they don't see how a machine will wash clothes without rubbing. Even when you did rub the clothes with a bar of soap on a washboard it was not the rubbing, but the alkali or other chemical agent released from the soap which really cleaned, and not the rub. When you used a cake of soap on the washboard you were obtaining only about 10 per cent. Of the value of the soap as a cleanser; when you dissolve that soap and use it in a solution, or use a solution prepared with other chemical agents which attack grease, you secure their full 100 per cent. Value in cut ting body soil and setting the dirt particles loose in the wash water.

Further, remove from your mind any misconception as to the injurious effect of such solutions upon clothing when properly used,or any idea that clothes washed in such a machine as the thor after methods to be hereafter described, could possibly harm the most delicate articles. Can you not see that washing solutions, rightly made, which affect and break down grease in a few moments, are far less dangerous than the long continued rub-a-dub-rubbing of a washboard method? Such solutions attack the grease between the fibres; the washboard wears out the fibres themselves. Which do you prefer? A cake of soap does not enter into modern machine washing - all soap must be shaved, powdered, and dissolved with other agents in the wash water.

But the last, and probably the most important step to success ful machine washing is the principle of the cleansing power of water when applied with force, as brought to such mechanical perfection in the thor cylinder machine. For a long time I myself could not understand how, even with a proper soap solution, the clothes could be washed clean. I saw the motor turning, I watched the cylinder revolve, I observed it reverse after each eight times around in one direction - but still I did not grasp this new principle of machine washing.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1333870981
• ISBN 13: 9781333870980
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 44