50—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Feb. 19, '977
Ladies Have
You Heard?
By Doris Thomas
Lancaster Home Economist
HOW TO REMOVE
CRAYON AND INK
STAINS
If you have children in
school, crayon and ballpoint
ink stains on their clothing
may be a laundry problem.
Treat these stains before
washing because the heat
from wash water and hot air
in a dryer often sets them
permanently. However, the
kind of fabric and type of
stain.
For washable fabrics
stained with crayon, dampen
the stain and rub in soap or
detergent to form thick suds.
Then rinse well and repeat if
needed. Use a grease solvent
for non-washable fabrics. If
the grease solvent does not
work, then try the water and
detergent method.
Ballpoint ink stains need a
little different treatment.
Rubbing alchol is useful for
most fabrics. Place the stain
face down on a blotter or
paper towel and sponge the
area with alcohol until the
blotter abosrbs the stain.
Rinse the area with water to
remove the alcohol.
Bleaching may also be
necessary if the stain is an
old one. Use a mild solution
of chlorine bleach and water
to soak bleachable items.
Use an oxygen bleach
solution for items that can’t
be bleached with chlorine
bleach.
Be sure you first test the
stain remover on a sample
piece of the garment on a
hidden area, because
sometimes the stain removal
method can discolor or fade
the fabric.
ABOUT SAFER CLOTHING
FOR ALL AGES
Blue jeans and wool
sweaters are not only
fashionable attire but
probably one of the safest
outfits to be wearing in the
event you’re caught in a fire.
Wool and some synthetics
tend to be fire resistant. A
tightly woven, heavy weight
fabric like denim will not
burn as fast as a loose
weave, fluffy pile or napped
fabric. Also, loose, floppy
clothing such as nightgowns
and robes will burn more
quickly because air can
circulate faster through
them.
There’s no flame proof
fiber or fabric available for
clothing but great strides
have taken place recently in
developing flame retardant
fabrics. The first age group
to benefit was children for
whom flame retardent
sleepwear was developed. In
fact, the federal government
requires all children’s
sleepwear to be flame
retardant.
Some major retail-catalog
chain stores, spurred on by
the benefits of flame
retardant sleepwear for
children are now expanding
their inventory to include
flame retardant dresses,
blouses and other adult
wear. The price for these
garments is increased
anywhere from 50 cents to
$2.00 depending on garment
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size and amount of fabric
used.
Flame retardant garments
look like ordinary garments
and the problem with smell
and feel, associated with the
first flame retardant gar
ments, have been almost
eliminated. Generally, flame
retardant garments can be
laundered in ordinary
phosphate detergent or a
heavyduty, liquid detergent.
Chlorine bleach and some
fabric softeners can reduce
flame retardant charac
teristics. To be sure of
proper laundry techniques,
follow garment label in
structions.
Flame retardant garments
do provide life-saving
protectioin but can burn. It
just takes longer to ignite
them. They will self
extinguish once the heat
source is removed. The only
sure protection is to avoid
catching on fire m the first
place by practicing good
safety habits.
All air-cooled engines
are NOT created equal
It’s easier to call an engine
“heavy duty" than it is to build it that way.
carburated “heavy duty” industrial engii
deserve the title They consume expense
rate- they are prone to break down or overheat and their life
expectancy is measured in hundreds of hours. If any engine in
the world qualifies as heavy duty, it’s Deutz. Deutz engines
are often chosen to power equipment with unit price tags over
half a million dollars-that’s heavy duty.
When it comes to cooling efficiency, the Deutz
precision-engineered axial-flow cooling air blowers have no
equal. This direct approach to coofing [without coolants,
additives, cavitation) means our engines need only about
60% of the air volume bquid cooled engines require
Combustion efficiency is greatly improved by higher head
temperatures and engine life is extended by cooler oil
temperatures
If you think air-cooled engines are prone to overheat.
talk to Deutz users m the scorching heat of the Imperial or San
Joaquin valleys There, Deutz engines deliver more than
20,000 hours of trouble free service before a major overhaul
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Recently, I’ve had the pound lard .10, one pound
opportunity to look through a coffee .10, five pound sugar
very old leather-bound book .45, one crock apple butter
which my Grandfather, .30, Vz peck commeal .10,
Benjamin R. Landis, used to and one pound butter .18.
keep the accounts of his Here is an example of the
hired people. After pouring spelling used in the book,
over the book for hours, I “Hawled wood to Mount
almost feel as though I can
reconstruct some of the way
of life in the 1890’s.
The various men were
hired for $5 per month, $8 per
month, or even $ll per
month with washing and
mending included. Now what
really makes interesting
reading is what this money
was spent for. Apparently,
my grandfather acted as
banker because every two or
three days all through the
year he doled out money to
them. On a Saturday evening
they would get .75 cents or $1
and walk to the nearby
village of Oregon.
Sometimes they bought
coal at Lititz for $3 a ton or
went to a doctor in Lancaster
for $5. For a trip to Atlantic
City they got an advance of
$1 and for two quarts of
whiskey $l. Naturally food
items were inexpensive
compared to today’s prices.
Examples are: watermelon
.10, bushel potatoes .30 one
o
There are lots of things that separate Deutz engines from
water-cooled and other air-cooled engines. Things like
blower design, big lube oil coolers, oil-cooled pistons,
special alloy cylinder heads, a research and development
team of more than 1,000 engineers These are all important
advantages Still we say: If you can find an engine that uses
less fuel than a Deutz—buy H
DEUTZ
Corporation
STAUFFER
DIESEL, INC.
312 W. Main St.
New Holland, PA
Ph. 717-354-4181
Gredne and saw horse
rasses with Claty.” Or,
“Paied my tax .75 and sold
mutin .10 lb., fethers .32 lb.
and 7 lb. meet at .08 lb.”
Then, “Bought huckelburys,
dinamite and oisters at
Nessvill.”
Each day off for the hired
men was also carefully noted
as follows: 1 day at Circus, 1
day at Campmeeting, Vz day
at fox chase, Ms day fishing, 1
day had poison, 1 day grind
broad axe and pick apples
and 1 day ‘ ‘don’t know where
you were.”
I must tell you a bit about
the women. A “Susie”
worked for $3 per month and
an “Emma”, the wife of
Jacob Livering, sometimes
managed to get part of her
husband’s pay. She spent .50
at a public sale and another
.50 went to the baker. I don’t
think I envy them one bit.
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