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Show Woman's World Proper Technique Wttl Make Washdays Cheerful and Cool By Ertta Haley A WOMAN said to me recently, "There's nothing to washing clothes. Teople have done it for thousands of years and surely they know how." That may be true, but many people peo-ple have never seen a washing done properly and, as it is with many simple tasks, there's always a right way. Many women, for example, do not sort their clothes. In fact, they've never heard of such nonsense! Don't they all go through the machine? ma-chine? Yes, they do, but if they come out the lighter or darker shade of gray, well then, they simply sim-ply didn't let the machine run long enough or they were short of soap! One of the common faults in using a machine for washing Is overloading. You must get the proper loads in to have best results. re-sults. You can simplify the laundering laun-dering problem a lot just by sorting sort-ing the clothes and running them through in the following order. The least soiled things like bed linens are run through first. Naturally Nat-urally we assume that you change weekly and linen is not allowed to get very dirty. If table linens are less soiled run these through first, then bed linens. Shirts and light colored things with perhaps a few towels make up the third load. Moderately soiled cottons and linens, towels and slightly soiled Organize laundering by sorting . . . wearing apparel follow the light colored load. Dark colored clothing and rather dirty clothes go into the fifth load. Heavy articles such as rugs or mats go in last. Do not run too m3ny at one time. Treat All Stains Before Laundering Clothing with stains or clothing which needs to be bleached needs attention before washing. Check over the stain situation and remove these. Rinse thoroughly before washing. When you use a bleach, make certain this is rinsed thoroughly before you put it in to wash. Also be certain not to get the bleach on other pieces while you work. Use Hand Laundry For Some Clothing Certain articles of clothing and household articles are best done by hand since they require such gentle handling. In this class are included silks, curtains, laces, fragile lingerie lin-gerie and accessories such as fine And proper hanging. gloves', hose and pieces of neckwear. neck-wear. These are best done weekly on a day other than the regular laundry if there are a lot of them. Many of these, like neckwear, hose and gloves, can be given a daily sud sing in the wash bowL The recipe for doing them is somewhat similar: Gentle suds with lukewarm water with gentle squeezing squeez-ing and handling and absence of rubbing or wringing. Use clear, cooling water for rinsing rins-ing out the last piece of soap. Stretch gently into shape. This saves ironing on gloves, saves hose and makes neckwear easier to press. When washing fine things take off rings and jewelry and file broken nails so you won't injure the fabric. Wash Frequently Enough To Keep Clothes Best Materials may have a high wear-ability wear-ability rating, but you should wash everything before it is so bogged down with dirt that it's Impossible to get clean. Washing Turkish towels is extremely ex-tremely important, because they wear longer, stay brighter and fresher when done frequently. Save i Demure Negligee 'A' J $ fa VvV I J Vi ' . y y v " K s " v i i: , Crisp printed organdie for a demure summer negligee Is exquisitely ex-quisitely styled by Tula for relaxing re-laxing hours during warm weather. wea-ther. Cotton lace edges the deep collar, the puffed sleeves. Gathers on the bodice and around the skirt give It the little girl look. time by not ironing or using a mangle. man-gle. They're much fluffier if just dried, shaken and folded. Mangling Man-gling makes them flat by. flattening the loops and making them less absorbent. ab-sorbent. Towels usually shrink after the first few launderings. Shrinkage pulls the threads closer together and the towels will appear heavier after washing than when purchased. pur-chased. Maximum absorbency on Turkish towels is reached after four or five washings. When you launder bed linens, never add chemical bleaches while the clothes are in the tub. Soak and apply a bleach when essential In a separate bucket or pan. Add soap when you first fill the tub, not when the clothes are already in it Some people launder clothes so carefully that they make them last years. What about your sheets, for example? Give Good Care , For Longer Wear Sheets never should be washed until they are in shreds. They won't need intense washing if you change weekly. Give them a blue rinse, if they're white sheets, in the last water. Dry white sheets in the sun, straight, rather than doubled on the line if possible. This smooths out wrinkles and you can fold and iron them easily. If you live where it's clean, dry sh;eets the old-fashioned way, spreading them on the lawn to give them an intense whiteness and sweet fragrance. Keep colored sheets away from direct sunlight. Hang them in the shade of a tree when possible. The trick to ironing sheets properly prop-erly is to keep the hems straight and even. On pillow cases, work away from the closed corners. All sheets should be folded uniformly. uni-formly. Twice lengthwise and as many times the other way as needed. need-ed. Sew tabs on sheets as to size so you'll know which ones to pull out for use. Pile clean clothing on bottom of pile; take things as needed from the top and everything will wear evenly. |