Show Bleaching Clothes Laundry Chemicals That Do Not Destroy the Garments T seems seem to be a common impression I IT that most chemicals or at least leas nearly aU all effective ones ories are acids It is an even more common belief that acids are ruthlessly used in the laundries that turn out the whitest results As a matter of fact the whiten whitening I ing of washed fabrics is accomplished not by means of acids but of bleaching agents The most and ancient nt of all bleaching methods lay in spreading the washed clothes over grass which is done even today The people of olden times did not know why bleaching resulted the modern housekeeper who has taken a course in domestic science probably does In the early morning hours when the dew is s still lupon upon the grass there is some o otone one in in the air more e near the grass and ozone which is a condensed form of the ordinary oxygen of the atmosphere is a capable bleaching agent i I S St I t View In Shawls While the grass trick may be employed for some ome household laundry needs the housekeeper who would do considerable bleaching and do it quickly must take a leaf from the book of the industrial bleacher Modern Agents I Most important among all the indus indusi industrial trial substances used for bleaching fab fabrics fabrics i is chlorin which exists as a green greenish greenish ish irritating gas with a disagreeable odor In some kinds of bleaching work this gas is used directly in others it itis itis is employed in the form of bleaching chloride of lime It Itis is in this latter form that the housekeep it After it has performed its legitimate work of bleaching chlorine carries its I action further to the destruction of the f fabric bric The industrial bleacher knows this and he is aware also of the remedy His method is to dip the cloth in the mixture of water and bleaching powder stirring the fabric about until bleaching is accomplished and then after rinsing the cloth out to transfer it to another bath known as the the t term rm meaning something that destroys the further effects of the chlorine For the home laundry the best is the everyday of soda of the photographer which can be had at retail I at ten cents a pound LOot LOOP I 1 r a Litle I I 1 I rl ST I I I I r I II I I I i ri I II II I I II II ul II I I t I I I I II i 1 I II II t J L r I 1 I II Ii t i I I J I II L I r I i i r I I I I I II I I II I J CL eT C tt I II It I t I II I I II I I II L I J TORY PLAit ROOI cor |