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House & Garden 
cjreen Cloth 
Strands corrode in 
alloyed screen cloth. 
Iron and steel cloth 
;rusts out in patches. 
screen cloth is very 
pliant. 
I F you need to renew the cloth in 
your insect screens this spring, 
buy Jersey Copper Screen Cloth. 
It will save you money in the long 
run because of its great durability. 
Iron and steel screen cloth, no mat¬ 
ter whether painted or metal coated, 
will rust out. Brass or bronze screen 
cloth is sometimes made of such an 
uneven alloy of copper that strands 
somewhere will break after short 
usage and then the screen is doomed. 
Jersey Copper Screen Cloth, on the 
other hand, will last almost indefi¬ 
nitely under normal conditions. It is 
made of copper 99.8% pure.' But 
is not soft and pliable like ordinary 
copper. Due to a special Roebling 
process, this copper is given a tensile 
strength and stiffness comparable 
with that of steel. 
Use Jersey Copper Screen Cloth 
(16 mesh, dark finish) for your 
door, window and porch screens. 
Look for the red and black tag when 
you buy custom made screens or 
screen cloth from the roll. 
If you cannot readily obtain Jersey Copper 
Screen Cloth locally, write us. We will 
send you on request a booklet, “A Matter 
of Health and Comfort”, regarding screen 
cloth which you will find worth reading. 
The New Jersey Wire Cloth Company 
South Broad Street 
Trenton 
New Jersey 
SOLVING the HARD WATER PROBLEM 
(Continued from page 116) 
family say, “How tender these peas 
are!” Buy the finest vegetables and 
cook them according to the best au¬ 
thority, and yet you cannot beat the 
ravages of hard water on their delicate 
tissues and still have an epicurean 
result. 
Furthermore to a slight degree the 
color of vegetables deteriorates in water 
that is hard, so why handicap your 
work by poor materials? 
Linens 
Now for the laundry. A very large 
hotel system and this will seem incred¬ 
ible, decided to try an experiment and 
find out whether soft or hard water 
had the best effect on the durability of 
linens, napery, blankets etc. After a 
period of one year, experimenting with 
water softeners, and the gathering up 
of data and comparisons in about ten 
of its hotels, it was found they had 
saved, by the use of the softeners, 33-p 3 
% of repurchase cost for household lin¬ 
ens, napery, bed clothes, etc. etc. Why ? 
Simply this: The soft water carried no 
mineral to form soap curds that clog 
the fibres of the fabric, which when 
ironed actually bake into hardness, and 
of course, wherever the material is 
folded the stone (formerly the soap 
curd) battles against the insult and for 
its humiliation breaks through as would 
a spear, the fibre of the fabric. Thus 
you can see how the longevity of a 
piece of linen or silk or any fabric de¬ 
pends on the way it is washed and, as 
water is the main solvent not only in 
the home but in industry and in the 
laboratory, the moral is certainly: She 
who uses hard water is lost, but she 
who uses soft water is fortunate. 
Some people wonder why their linen 
cracks and why their blankets are so 
hard and unfluffy after washing. Many 
times, of course, not always, hard water 
is the basic cause. So it behooves you 
to find out a thing or two about your 
water supply. Doesn’t it? 
Saving Your Skins 
The use of soft water is not only an 
economy in saving, plumbing and kettle 
costs and waste in bad cookery, it is, 
also a saving in health as well. 
When you wash in hard water and 
use soap, the soap curd forms and stops 
up the pores. Now you know when 
the pores are clogged up part of the 
bodily vents are closed, the waste ma¬ 
terial cannot get out and you may be¬ 
come ill in some way or another. The 
classic example of disaster to the pores 
is found in the story of the page in 
Florence, I think, in the times of the 
glory of the Popes and Doges. There 
was to be a great religious glorifica¬ 
tion and to this end a little boy was 
gilded from head to toe to imitate an 
angel. Shortly afterward the child died 
because of the stopping up of his pores 
with mineral matter. Of course, this is 
not so drastically the case with hard 
water, yet you will get the point that 
if clogging all the pores lead to death, 
a slight clogging will leave ill effects, 
probably ugly skin and a bad com¬ 
plexion. 
Cosmetics help the skin but hard 
water acts as a retardent to the best 
of cosmetics. 
To bathe babies in hard water would 
be to start them wrong, because their 
sensitive skins should be treated with 
best materials. 
There is no doubt that soft water in 
the shaving process as well as in the 
laving of the face makes the face feel 
better and look better. The fact is 
that plenty of the facial upheavals, 
pimples and blackheads, are due to the 
clogging of the pores. Why then do 
you want to plaster over the vent 
holes in your skin to make an ugly 
world uglier? For there are few things 
so ingratiating in man, woman or child 
than pleasant-to-behold skins! And as 
for the roughened hand. . . .! All the 
rubber gloves and salves and lotions 
cannot make up for the inconvenience 
of hard water coming into the house 
and coating it with discomfort. 
You know, I feel sure, that the re¬ 
frigeration which is done without ice is 
due to the process of evaporation. You 
know that when you feel water leaving 
your hand, or in other words, when 
your hand is drying, you feel cooler? 
Now suppose those pores are clogged by 
the generosity of hard water leaving 
you with its permanent souvenir of 
soap curd? You cannot feel as cool 
in summer because the perspiration will 
not pass off through the stoned-up 
pores, and you get that sticky, messy 
feeling, an unnecessary addition to the 
list of hot weather agonies. 
In the shampoo, even as in silks and 
fabrics, the soap curd again makes the 
hair stony and when it is brittle, it 
breaks and cracks. Most hair dressing 
establishments and barbers know these 
things and are careful to have their 
work abetted by a softener. 
The soft water supply is better than 
rain water because it is drinkable and 
is freed from all impurities. It can be 
installed by any plumber, there are no 
tanks, cisterns, pumps, motors, no extra 
piping, nothing at all to do but connect 
it anywhere on your water supply. If 
extra filtering is needed, filters are in¬ 
stalled as sister companions at the same 
time. 
Therefore, before you build have 
your water supply tested and analyzed. 
If you are away from a perfected water 
system, put some water in a bottle, 
tightly sealed, and pack it safely and 
mail to a chemical laboratory for anal¬ 
ysis. Then write all about your cellar 
to the softener-maker and he will give 
you the necessary directions. If you 
are in a town with a public water 
supply, ask the water authorities the 
composition of your water, then write 
to a water softener manufacturer. 
To Summarize 
To give you a birdseye view of a 
water softener’s great charm briefly, 
here it is: 
You will save 50%-60% in soap. 
You will save 50% in the cost of 
household linen and napery. 
You will save untold money in 
plumbing bills. 
You will save money in kitchen 
pots and pans. 
You will save your skins and your 
health. 
You will lessen engine trouble in 
your car. 
You will preserve comfort, energy 
and time. 
You will save babies’ skin and 
health. 
You will save the finer properties 
of your foods. 
And best of all you will not need 
to cogitate on the fact that all your ex¬ 
penditures for foods, utensils and pip¬ 
ing are not in every way proving worth 
while. 
It is hard to think that water our 
benefactor can be a bane, it is hard to 
think that this elemental everyday God¬ 
send needs correction, but it does and 
the only way to do it is to soften it. 
