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diff --git a/33446.txt b/33446.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9cee574 --- /dev/null +++ b/33446.txt @@ -0,0 +1,698 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lace Curtain Cleaning, by Mrs. Albert Leigh + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Lace Curtain Cleaning + A Successful Home Business + +Author: Mrs. Albert Leigh + +Release Date: August 16, 2010 [EBook #33446] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LACE CURTAIN CLEANING *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +LACE CURTAIN CLEANING + +A SUCCESSFUL HOME BUSINESS + + +BY + +Mrs. Albert Leigh + + +COPYRIGHTED 1913 + + + + +How I Started A Successful Home Business + + +In the following pages will be found valuable instructions to all who +have applied for them. They are for your own use, and should not be +given or loaned to others, if you wish to succeed yourself. + +My advice to all is to begin this little book at the beginning, and +read it carefully to the end, then begin work in earnest--experience is +the best teacher, and I wish to show you, from my own experience how I +succeeded in building up a successful business right here in my own +home, in spare time only. For the first year my profits were over +$200.00. + +There is no royal road to success, nor do I know of any in which +patience and perseverance are more requisite than in the Lace Curtain +Laundry Business, though the work is easy, pleasant and to all who +master these instructions and apply them persistently, should not fail +to achieve the success that I have, and more. + +Illness in my family first inspired me with the ambition to help keep +our home together, and I shall never regret the thought which prompted +me to start the Lace Curtain Laundry Business, which has proved such a +success to me. + +There is no profession where the beginner can learn so quickly, none in +which the financial returns are so liberal, so I, being inexperienced, +took courage, patience and perseverance for my motto, and the result is +a nice home business built on the inspiration of a thought. + +Business enterprises that women can successfully engage in are very +scarce, but as this business is so easily conducted in the home, any +woman with a fair amount of ambition, who wants to earn her own living, +or who desires to assist with family expenses, in spare time, or who +wishes to increase her spending allowance and does not wish to leave +home in doing so; "this business offers the opportunity." Make your +strike for independence now, by following my instructions, you will +never regret it; for in a few months' time you will own a business of +your own--a business that will remain permanent for years to come and +will become more profitable, the longer you operate it. + + +MY METHOD + +As this business requires little or no capital to start, I lost no time +in making a beginning, having all the necessary appliances, such as +Tubs, Boiler, Wringer and Stretchers, in my own home use, adding two +new pair of Stretchers with the first money earned at my business, and +taking my parlor for my work shop, I was ready to begin. + +In the first place I mentioned my proposition to a few friends, who +gave me every encouragement, and in a few days I received a few orders, +which netted me $10 clear for the first week. + +In the evenings, I wrote down fifty names and addresses of the best +residents of our city, having borrowed an old phone book from my next +door neighbor for this purpose, then I wrote each a polite note stating +my business, and soliciting their patronage, promising to give special +care and attention in Laundrying without tearing, also guaranteeing +points and Curtains even. + +This brought me many orders, as also did a polite note to the President +of our Civic Betterment Club, who very kindly read my note to the +members at one of their meetings. The following week I sent a note to +the President of the Auxiliary of the Y.M.C.A., with like results. + +At this time, fall cleaning being about over, I set to work to form a +plan for spring work, which I knew would be heavy, as my business +increased right along as it become known, so I visited all the Hotels, +Apartment Houses, Clubs and Dr. Offices soliciting their patronage +also, and the result is; I had more work than I could do; now I have to +systemize my work by taking in only what I know I can do in a week +without over-lating myself, as I employ no help whatever. + + +THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS + +When the curtains first come in I look them over, if torn or worn, my +aim is to not make them any worse; I measure each pair of curtains, +length and width, marking it down in a book, for the purpose, with the +owner's name, how many pair and the price charged, this keeps me posted +for future reference. + +Most people put their Lace Curtains in cold water over night to extract +the dirt; I find this takes out a little of the smoked lint, not the +dirt, to me it seems to fasten it in, it certainly takes more time and +labor to get it out, besides being harder on the hands and the curtains +also. Try this way: take your largest tub, fill to the top with luke +warm water take one large cup of my excellent soap solution and mix in +the water thoroughly, now fold each curtain to about a foot square, put +into this tub of water until the tub is full, leave for half hour, +pressing them down occasionally, you will see the dirt fairly drop out, +at the end of half hour take one or two out at one time into fairly hot +water unfolding them a little while washing them, you will find this +process not only protects the curtains but is easier to laundry, put +them through your wringer gently, never wring them with the hands as +this tears them. + +If the curtains are pure white I boil them a little, if Ecru I merely +scald them sometimes they don't even require scalding, but must be +rinsed thoroughly; sometimes when the curtains are very frail I don't +put them through the wringer, I squeeze them with my hands in a ball, +after they are all clean. I dry out of doors if possible, then if it is +wet the next day I can starch and put them on the stretchers indoors, +in a vacant room kept for the purpose, and with a stove in it for cold +weather, it dries quickly. I find by drying all my curtains first I can +make the starch the right consistency, that is, most people want them +just stiff enough to hang pretty, so I try to get them about the same +weight as when new; if the curtain is of a heavy make less starch will +be required, but if they are of a net or some other flimsy material it +takes more starch--after doing a few pair it is easy to guess just what +you require for all curtains. + +The first curtain put on the stretcher is always the most tedious, but +after that it is easy. I never put on more than one pair of heavy; if +of light material I get as many on as the pins will take, providing, of +course, the curtains are all of one length; and I always try to make +the stretcher fit the curtain, not the curtain fit the stretcher. + +To begin with you will need 3 pair of stretchers, two of the adjustable +pin and one of the stationary pin kind, the first named are for the +scallop edge curtains as they can be placed at correct distances +apart--this is important--the stationary pin stretchers are for the +straight edge curtain, these must be stretched from the four corners, +working them on perfectly even and straight, never try to put a scallop +curtain on these stretchers, as the pins are never the same distance +apart. + +When I first commenced my Laundry Business, I found great difficulty, +and wasted much time in trying to find the right figures on the +stretchers, so I invented a scheme which has saved me hours of time, +and a great deal of patience: I simply went over the figures with pen +and ink, now I can see them at a glance. + +I often have curtains come in which require some mending; if I have +time I do this at night, before starching of course; I charge extra for +this and according to amount of work required, the ladies are more than +willing to pay for this, and it adds to your work too; makes it look so +much better. + +When taking the curtains off the stretchers, unscrew each corner a +little and raise the lower bar, this will bring the curtain off easier +and without tearing. Sometimes the edges and joints require pressing, I +do this as I take them off the stretcher, or at night, if I am short of +time. I charge 10c a curtain extra for this, when ready to send home I +fold them as little as possible, the fewer the creases the better they +look. After wrapping them nicely, I write a note to each, in which I +ask, should the work just returned meet with approval, to kindly hand +my enclosed card to one of their friends, this invariably brings me a +new customer. The card enclosed is simply a plain neat card with name +and address only, this with my note I enclose in an envelope addressed +to my customer and fastened to the parcel. + +Most of my work is brought to me and called for, this saves me a great +deal of time and trouble, but the ladies are more than willing to do +this, if their curtains are done satisfactory. + +Since commencing the laundrying of curtains I have been asked to +laundry many other articles, such as shirtwaists, fancy lace dresses, +jabots, dinner mats, doilies, scarfs, laces of all kinds, bed spreads +and even blankets, but working only in my spare time I have confined +myself to curtains and door panels only yet it goes to show that the +woman with more time at her disposal could do all this kind of work, +including the mending and make a splendid living, more especially when +there are three and four in the family. + +In conclusion I must say I find that politeness, cleanliness and +neatness of person in approaching the people adds a great part in the +secret of success in all trades. + +Enclosed with these instructions will be found my price list for all +curtain work and from which I never vary. For any other information a +two cent stamp enclosed will bring it to you by return mail. + +For success, + +I am very sincerely yours, + +MRS. ALBERT LEIGH, + +30 Bullett Ave., S.E. + +Roanoke, Va. + + +POINTERS FROM INSTRUCTIONS AT A GLANCE + + 1. Before wetting curtains measure length and width. + + 2. Don't put curtains to soak in cold water over night, one half hour +in the morning in luke warm water will be better. + + 3. Don't be afraid to use the soap solution, it won't injure the +curtains or the hands. + + 4. Don't wring the curtains with your hands simply squeeze them or put +them gently through the wringer. + + 5. After washing them clean dry thoroughly all your curtains, you will +then know just what consistency to make your starch; make them as near +their weight as when new, they hang better. + + 6. Prepare your starch the night before, this will save lots of time, +and you won't have to wait till it cools. + + 7. Make a straining bag of one yard of crash toweling and strain all +your starch before using as sometimes it lumps and sticks to the +curtains. + + 8. If any mending is required do it before starching them and when +clean. + + 9. Don't forget to charge extra for this, according to amount of +mending required. + +10. Get the adjustable-pin stretcher for scallop curtains, and +stationary stretcher for straight edge curtains. + +11. Go over the figures and lines on your stretchers with pen and ink, +you will then see them at a glance. + +12. For narrow curtains and short lengths, bore holes in your +stretchers to meet the requirements. + +13. When the curtains are ready to fold, don't fold them too much, the +fewer the creases the better they look. + +14. Don't forget to enclose with each parcel your card, asking to +kindly hand it to a friend. + +15. Always give a receipt in return for payment, this protects you and +your customer too. + +16. Don't be afraid to approach the people, they are only too glad to +know of you and that their curtains be cared for. + +17. Go to the best houses, to the hotels, apartment houses, clubs, +doctors' offices and anywhere where curtains are used in public +buildings. + +18. Your clean and neat appearance will count for everything in this +business. + +19. Make your prices the same to one and all, with no favors, and terms +strictly cash. + +20. Be polite to all, even if you are annoyed sometimes, it will pay +in the end. + + +MY EXCELLENT SOAP SOLUTION + +Three pounds Fels-Naptha Soap, One Fourth of a pound Mule Team Borax, +One pound of Sal Soda, One cup Turpentine, Six quarts of rain +water--Into the six quarts of water add the soap cut into small pieces, +boil till thoroughly desolved, then add the Borax and Sal Soda, let +this desolve also before adding the Turpentine, then boil for 10 +minutes, altogether, keep in gallon jars. + + * * * * * + +MY PRICE LIST + +Battenburg Curtains 75c to $1.00 + +Frilled Muslin, ironed all over 75c to $1.00 + +Heavy Aplique 75c to $1.00 + +Irish Point Net Curtains 65c to 75c + +Oriental Curtains, pressing and cleaning 65c to 75c + +Fish Net Curtains, long 65c + +Plain Nottingham Lace Curtains 65c + +Panel Curtains of all kinds, each 35c + +Short Muslin Sash Curtains, each 25c + +Door Panels, cleaned and pressed, each 25c to 35c + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Lace Curtain Cleaning, by Mrs. Albert Leigh + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LACE CURTAIN CLEANING *** + +***** This file should be named 33446.txt or 33446.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/4/4/33446/ + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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