DEATH IN DISH TOWELS.

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 83, 30 May 1902, Page 4

DEATH IN DISH TOWELS.

Dish-towels are. an important; item in most ane woolly hand jtowels,. very ordinary' sheets and pijlow * cases, i , and many other things of, inferior quality, but tha housekeeper knows to hor- sorrow what cheap, dish towels , mean. Their use qntails almost double fiber labour requited .if one, has those of pqor quality, Round thread Russia ci ash is far arid away and always the best dish-to welling ,that one. can use. It. absorbs water almost instantly, and can be used, a long time before becoming unavailable because too, wet. Dish towels should be thoroughly boiled whenever they are washed, where scalding does not answer the 1 purpose. The intense heat of boiling is absolutely necessary if one would have health and cleanliness in the kitchen, A merely scalded dish-towel is unfit for the use of any woman. It takes more than just hot water to remove the disease germs and impurities that may lodge in these domestic necessities: Because a dishcloth looks clean it does not in any sense follow that it is clean. Many a family has had its number reduced by death because of the persistent refusal of the maids to boil the dish towels as they should be done and remove the incipient causes of disease.