On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:42:44 -0500, notbob >
rummaged among random neurons and opined:

>On 2007-08-24, Andy <q> wrote:
>
>> What a way to iron clothes!!!
>
>I imagine it would work just fine. I remember, as a kid, Mom
>sprinkling clothes with water to produce steam with her steamless
>electic iron. I still miss Perm-Stach, a starch added to the wash
>instead of sprayed on while ironing.

Okay, you triggered a memory lane moment. My mother used to have a
glass soda bottle (I swear I recall it being Pepsi) with some gadget
that was a sprinkler-stopper made for the purpose of sprinkling
clothes with water before ironing. It looked a lot like a tiny garden
watering can's spout with the little perforations for the water to
trickle out and a base surrounded with cork that wedged into the
bottle top.

And why did she also dampen the clothes off the clothes line that
needed to be ironed, put them in a plastic bag and then in the
refrigerator until she could get around to ironing them? It never
occurred to me until I was an adult that this seemed a strange
housekeeping practice.

I also remember Mother's electric mangle for ironing linens.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

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"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

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