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Show Safety Precautions Urged in Cleaning Danger of Fire, Vapor Inhalations Are Cited Housewives in rural areas some times find it inconvenient to send clothes out to be dry cleaned and therefore do the work themselves. I For this purpose, they may go to a nearby automobile service station sta-tion and buy gasoline or to a hardware hard-ware store or general store and buy "cleaning fluid." Gasoline is intended to make motors operate and should never be employed as a solvent because of its great flammability. Then are some specially refined petroleum petrole-um products available with cleaning clean-ing and degreasing properties somewhat like those of gasoline but Stand so vapors will be carried away from you, not towards you; do the work outdoors. out-doors. with considerably less fire hazard, although any petroleum product can burn if it is brought in contact with a source of ignition. When a small amount of solvent is to be used the work can be done indoors safely enough. If the fluid can burn, just be careful to use it where there are no nearby sources of ignition and don't smoke or light matches while you are handling hand-ling the fluid. However, when a large job is to be done, such as cleaning an entire dress or a pair of overalls or removing grease from a number num-ber of tools which may require two or three quarts of solvent used over a period of perhaps half an hour. Do the work outdoors, stand so that vapors will be carried away from you, not towards you, and allow the cleaned articles to dry thoroughly before you bring them indoors. When you are finished, if your hands feel dry, wash with lukewarm water and rub a cream containing lanolin into the skin. |
