Glue — Use white vinegar or acetic acid.
Grass — Dissolve with alcohol or kerosene.
Grease — Soften with lard or turpentine and then wash in soap
suds.
Gum — Eemove stain with gasoline.
Ink — Soak in milk or bleach with salt, lemon juice and sun-
shine.
Fountain Pen Ink — Use Javelle water.
Iron Rust — Lemon juice, salt and sunshine or Javelle water.
Iodine — Hyposulphite of soda or chloroform should be used.
Medicine — Dissolve the stain in alcohol.
Mildew — Bleach with lemon juice and sunshine or Javelle
water.
Milk or Cream — Wash with cold water, then with cold water
and soap suds.
Paint, Varnish and Tar — Soak in turpentine or alcohol or if
very dry, soften with lard and wash with soap suds.
Paraffin — Scrape off the excess and wash with hot soapy water.
Perspiration — Wash with soapy water and bleach in the sun-
shine.
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Sugar — Wash in water or alcohol.
Tea— Pour boiling water through the fabric and wash in cold
water.
\Yax — Scrape off the excess and place a blotting paper over
and beneath the stain. Iron with a warm iron.
CHAPTER 3
LABOR-SAVING DEVICES
Washing Machines
Washing machines furnish the mechanical force needed to re-
move soil from clothing. Everything else must be supplied by
the homemaker.
Dirt is held in clothing by two substances, grease and albu-
minous materials, largely skin excretions. The first purpose of
washing is to dissolve these substances so the particles of soil will
be loosened.
Grease is dissolved by soapy water and for this reason soap is
used in washing. The albuminous materials are dissolved most
easily in tepid water; they, like the albumin in egg white, are
set by hot water.
If the washing machine is to accomplish excellent results, the
water placed in it should not be scalding hot, but tepid, and it
should contain an abundance of soap suds. A good way to
judge the temperature of the water is to have it just hot enough
that the hands may be placed in it with comfort. The operation
of the machine forces the soapy water back and forth through
the meshes of the fabrics, in this way dissolving the materials
holding the soil.
Types of Machines
There are four kinds of washing machines, all of which may
be driven by hand, electricity or gasoline engines. Vacuum
machines have inverted cups or funnels which cleanse by moving
up and down, forcing water through the fibers of the cloth. In
the cylinder type the garments are placed in the cylinder of
metal or wood. As this revolves within the tub, the clothes are
lifted out of the water and dropped back into it so the water
moves back and forth through the clothing.
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LABOE-SAVING DEVICES 247
The tub of the oscillator machine rocks back and forth like a
cradle, this motion forcing the soapy suds through the fabrics
being washed. Then there is the dolly type, so called on account
of the agitator or disc known as the dolly which fits down on the
clothes. This grasps the garments while turning and reversing,
accomplishing the cleaning by this movement of the water back
and forth through the clothing. The tubs of these machines
usually have corrugated sides.
Machines Rinse Efficiently
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Presented as published in 1923. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Glue — Use white vinegar or acetic acid.
Grass — Dissolve with alcohol or kerosene.
Grease — Soften with lard or turpentine and then wash in soap suds.
Gum — Remove stain with gasoline.
Ink — Soak in milk or bleach with salt, lemon juice and sunshine.
Fountain Pen Ink — Use Javelle water.
Iron Rust — Lemon juice, salt and sunshine or Javelle water.
Iodine — Hyposulphite of soda or chloroform should be used.
Medicine — Dissolve the stain in alcohol.
Mildew — Bleach with lemon juice and sunshine or Javelle water.
Milk or Cream — Wash with cold water, then with cold water and soap suds.
Paint, Varnish and Tar — Soak in turpentine or alcohol or if very dry, soften with lard and wash with soap suds.
Paraffin — Scrape off the excess and wash with hot soapy water.
Perspiration — Wash with soapy water and bleach in the sunshine.
LAUNDERING RECIPES 245
Sugar — Wash in water or alcohol.
Tea— Pour boiling water through the fabric and wash in cold water.
\Yax — Scrape off the excess and place a blotting paper over and beneath the stain. Iron with a warm iron.
Washing Machines
Washing machines furnish the mechanical force needed to remove soil from clothing. Everything else must be supplied by the homemaker.
Dirt is held in clothing by two substances, grease and albuminous materials, largely skin excretions. The first purpose of washing is to dissolve these substances so the particles of soil will be loosened.
Grease is dissolved by soapy water and for this reason soap is used in washing. The albuminous materials are dissolved most easily in tepid water; they, like the albumin in egg white, are set by hot water.
If the washing machine is to accomplish excellent results, the water placed in it should not be scalding hot, but tepid, and it should contain an abundance of soap suds. A good way to judge the temperature of the water is to have it just hot enough that the hands may be placed in it with comfort. The operation of the machine forces the soapy water back and forth through the meshes of the fabrics, in this way dissolving the materials holding the soil.
Types of Machines
There are four kinds of washing machines, all of which may be driven by hand, electricity or gasoline engines. Vacuum machines have inverted cups or funnels which cleanse by moving up and down, forcing water through the fibers of the cloth. In the cylinder type the garments are placed in the cylinder of metal or wood. As this revolves within the tub, the clothes are lifted out of the water and dropped back into it so the water moves back and forth through the clothing.
The tub of the oscillator machine rocks back and forth like a cradle, this motion forcing the soapy suds through the fabrics being washed. Then there is the dolly type, so called on account of the agitator or disc known as the dolly which fits down on the clothes. This grasps the garments while turning and reversing, accomplishing the cleaning by this movement of the water back and forth through the clothing. The tubs of these machines usually have corrugated sides.
Machines Rinse Efficiently