p. 11 | FOR HEALTH'S SAKE by A. M. H.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 42.

FOR HEALTH'S SAKE.

By A. M. H.

It is hard to make up one's mind to wash a soft, fleecy pair of woolen blankets, but if they have been in constant use for a season they may have absorbed so many unhealthy vapors as to be unfit for further use, especially if they have been used as coverings for the sick, and they should be washed no matter how white and clean the blankets may seem.

The practise of having blankets dry-cleaned is no longer followed, and intelligent housekeepers who study the laws of hygiene know that the process does not clean or disinfect like a strong suds with a day's exposure to air and sunlight. Germ life may exist for months in the fleecy surface of a fine woolen blanket. They should be well aired each day before windows, and those in every day use should be kept clean by sewing a wide piece of cheesecloth on each side of the comfort that comes next to the head.

Both the all-wool and cotton blankets are made soft and white by shaking them well to free them from lint and then washing them through a warm pearline suds to which a little ammonia has been added, and the temperature of the water in which they are washed and rinsed should always be the same, for change of temperature is what thickens the blanket and makes it hard and stiff.

When dry, take from the line, fold smoothly, and press under a heavy weight for several days. Blankets thus washed will retain their original freshness through many seasons of use. A. M. H.