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LAUNDRY EQUIPMENT. 



(Miss Uena Bailey, Farmers' Institute Lecturer.) 



The cleaning of clothing by means of soap and water has come to 

 be of such importance that one day a week is set aside as wash day, 

 unless the housekeeper is fortunate enough to be able to send her laun- 

 diy out. Many are the frowns caused by the rainy Monday or the 

 failure of the washerwoman to arrive on the appointed day, and thus 

 disarrange the housekeeper's program for the week. 



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A variety of methods of laimdry management present themselves. 

 All may be sent out to the steam laundry, the housewife paying by the 

 piece; paying at rough dry rates and doing the ironing at home; or 

 having flat work done at the laundry and the starched clothes brought 

 home rough dry. Having laundry done by the piece is costly, and the 

 other methods relieve the housewife of onlj^ a part of the labor and 

 time. A new method is being used in some places — the wet wash. The 

 clothes are returned wet, to be dried at home. The average price is 

 fifty cents for a family clothes basketful. However, this leaves the work 

 only half done. Aside from the expense of steam laundry work, there 

 is the careless handling of the clothes causing them sometimes to be 



