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Show UNNECESSARY LABOR. j j Tho other members of the family can fflffl muster quite as many pieces, so there arc (jIn sure to be a hundred. Then the household tyjl pieces pasily add fifty, which make ono IJu hundred and fifty pieces for one wcckB wash. Ugl Some Idea of how a business expert H?l would estimate thc cost of this chance am to wash thc family ,llnen can be gained by , mW a laundry list and checking off tho ltom3. ffl "Of -oursc, It's perfectly staggering!" flj says the housekeeper. "No modest house- i lm hold ever puts all its laundry out I have 5Hj a woman by thc day. Every woman with a family who can afford It deals with tho problem Uiat way." A woman by tho day charges now $1.75, ja ten cents additional for car faro, even fl H If she happens to live around the corner, J 1 and she also has a hearty lunch given her jl B and often a breakfast. She deals with 'uJ' the 150 assorted pieces In ono or two days 1 fi Ume n H If In two, she consumes two lunches m and uses two cakes of soap at eight cents - 111 a bar (to-day's quotation), a quarter of a IE pound of starch, at nlno cents a pound, and Incidentally uses a lot of valuable 1 space If tho sceno of her activities la in pj u modern apartment house kitchen. I ll This Is not written with the idea of ) HQ snatching employment from a worthy 1 Ma class of Industrious women. The quesUon BH is, could they not, if thc housekeeper fljfl chose to study thc laundry question a ' wMl little more closely, "release" these women ma for some other class of necessary work7 rW "Surely." thc housekeeper complains, irtB "wo are not expected to forego being Ujw clean just because we happen to be fight- fill lng " Wc certainly arc not ' M At tho present tlmo wc are being warned mm to conserve gas and electricity. The cost Hjll of either can be and ls calculated to a Hfflf cent. rAN "A gas or an electric iron costs only lluj about two or three cents an hour: so U1 little, it's hardly noticeable." thc gas or I electric iron salesman assures you. "It's , fli a matter so small it hardly weighs at all." , 111 Tf you think thc small amount of elec- Mj trlclty which an electric Iron requires Is 1 0 beneath notice, try to do a little pressing w with one, tho next time you stop at a Jl hotel. Be perfectly open and abovo board. ' let the chambermaid and thc "boll hop" . g view you at your tasks. n j It won't be long before thcro's some- t thing doing In your direction. Tho man- 1 B ngement Is very polite, exceedingly regret- ' 8 jj ful, but thcro's no mistaking It You aro 1 1 positively forbidden to use thc electricity uj for anything but IllumlnaUng purposes. nflB |