SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
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The Family Laundry. By the Hon. Mrs. Lionel Guest. (Central Committee for National Patriotio Organizations, 62 Charing Cross. ld.)—In the abstract washing-day has quite a number of attractions. The very name " laundry " is redolent of soap and fragrant clean linen, and if we are imaginative we picture orchards or meadows with the fluttering clothes hung up high from tree to tree or pole to pole, drying in air and sunshine. In reality, as the housewife in towns knows to her cost, it is very different., and washing-day, if washing is done at home, is a thing to be endured with as much good temper as possible. As in everything else, method is a great help to success, and Mrs. Guest in The Family Laundry gives a great deal of excellent advice and many useful hints as to the best way of dealing with the household wash, whether it is to be sent out or done at home. In addition, there is a chapter on "Rome-Made Soap," and Mrs. Hawkins tells us how to obtain soft water. The pamphlets issued by the Central Committee are models for their sound sense and concise writing, and The Family Laundry is no exception to the rule.
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