EXERCISES
1. Why is ironing less necessary than washing?
2. What are the chief cleansing and purifying agents?
3. Explain the difference between hard and soft water. Remedies for hardness?
4. What is soap, and how does it act?
5. Why do we blue and starch clothes?
6. Describe the methods of forcing water through clothes.
7. Why are clothes boiled?
8. What are some of the labor saving devices and methods in washing and ironing?
9. Why must clothes be sorted according to fabrics?
10. What are the essentials of a good washing machine?
11. Make a list of the cleansers and chemicals necessary to have on the laundry shelf.
12. Obtain price lists and estimate the cost of simple but sufficient laundry equipment.
13. Obtain a laundry list from a commercial laundry. Make a list of the articles washed at home, and compare cost with the cost of putting out clothes, estimating fuel, cleansers, labor, and some wear and tear of apparatus.