UNPLEASANT!

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1932, Page 7

UNPLEASANT!

WASHERS-UP COMPLAIN!

From Paris comes to an exchange a definite complaint about lipstick. The writer says:—

Washing-up, thaj; bugbear of so many homes, has lately been receiving much attention from Continental scientists. German hotel proprietors are complaining that lipstick stains, which cannot be removed, are appearing on their cups and glasses. Soda, it is stated, will not remove the stain, and the trade publication "Hotel" is now asking for a stronger washing powder. The new Mayor of Nice, M. Medicin, has issued a bylaw which states that all dishes and utensils used in hotels and cafes must be washed in water containing 50 per cent, disinfectant. The dishes must then be rinsed in clean, cold water, and wiped dry. M. Medicin has also ordered that

instruments used by hairdressers, manicurists, and masseurs must be cleaned each time they are used, by immersion in a solution of alcohol and formalin. Hairdressers must ivash their hands before attending to a client. London tries to be notably clean in spite of difficulties, the following statement being made:—

A , London:,-barman who .serves thousands of cocktails a w.eek told a "Daily Mail" reporter that "lipstick is the finest polish there is. All our glasses aro^ washed in hot water, and if there is any lipstick left it is polished off with a dry cloth. Glasses cleaned in this way acquire'; ar much finer polish."

Cups and glasses used at Messrs. Lyons' larger establishments are washed by machinery, and an official of the firm said: "This results in' the glass passing through'three „ distinct processes, ending with1 immersion in boiling water and complete sterilisation. It< would be impossible for lipstick stains to remain'if machinery were used for washing up."