Home Makers^ Conference. 



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Below is a list of the furnishings used in this laundry room with 

 the initial cost and the average number of years of service, so far as- 

 can be determined without experiment, also the cost per year. 



Article. 



Initial 

 Cost. 



Years of 

 Service. 



Cost per 

 year. 



Macliine 



2 Wringers . . . 



2 tubs 



Irons 



Stove 



Boiler 



Drainer ...... 



Pump 



Table 



Ironing board 

 Sleeve board . 



Stool 



Clothes horse. 



Bench 



PaU 



Basket 



Pads 



Covers 



$10.00 



10.00 



2.30 



2.50 



6.00 



2.00 



.42 



4.00 



1.50 



1.00 



.50 



1.00 



.85 



1.50 



.25 



.85 



.36 



.36 



10 



8 



4 



10 



6 



5 



10 



10 



15 



10 



10 



10 



2 



10 



5 



5 



5 



1 



$45.39 



>1.00- 

 1 . 25. 

 .57 

 .25 

 1.00 

 .40- 

 .04 

 .40- 

 .10 

 .10- 

 .05- 

 .lO. 

 .42 

 .15 

 .05 

 .17' 

 .07 

 .36; 



$6.48- 



Almost every home, especially every farm house, has all of the fur- 

 nishings mentioned except the sleeve board, stove, pump, drainer and the 

 extra wringer. These make an additional initial co.st of $16.92 or an 

 average yearly cost of $2.04. The convenient arrangement of the laun- 

 dry room will probably enable the housewife to do the work in one- 

 fourth less time than with the arrangement now found in most homes. 

 A hired woman expects to receive for the average washing and ironing 

 of a family of five, from one and one-half dollars to two dollars plus the 

 cost of two meals at twenty-five cents per meal, making a conservative 

 estimate of cost at two dollars per week. Now if a convenient arrange- 

 ment of the laundry room saves even one-fourth the time or fifty cents 

 per week, it will make a saving of twenty-six dollars per year, or more 

 than twelve times the cost per year of the extra articles. Stating it 

 another way, the saving would pay for one and one-half times the 

 initial cost of these articles. A good business manager would lose no 

 time in making an improvement that would be such a saving, and it is 

 high time that good business principles were applied to housework. 



The original plan for this exhibit was to show two laundry rooms 

 — one for convenient arrangement of laundry equipment now used 

 in homes and the other with machinery run by gasoline power. But 

 being unable to get the loan of suitable machinery and it not being 

 practicable to purchase such, only an electric power washer with wringer, 

 loaned through the courtesy of Mrs. Furtney, and a hand power cold 



