HERB - Linen Waters

[Gaylin J. Walli]

I know what a mangle is as my grandmother used one frequently.
Imagine two long, heated metal/cermaic rolling pins lying one on
top of the other. Run the sheets between them and *poof* like
magic, they're ironed and pressed.

Jasmine

At 1:54 PM -0600 8/22/00, fplecki at juno.com wrote:
>I ran the question regarding "linen waters" past my mother and her older
>sister, who have memories of the days before permanent press and steam
>irons.  So far, I've gotten this from my mom, which I thought you might
>find interesting.  I, too, thought ironing linens was over the top, but
>missed the obvious reasons.  BTW, Alice is my sister--younger, but very
>knowledgeable.  No, I don't (yet) know what a mangle is.
>
>Leah, Outlands
>mailto:fplecki at juno.com
>
>>  --------- Forwarded message ----------
>My mother ironed sheets, perhaps because they felt better that way.  That
>was before fabric softeners.  Alice says that it was often done because
>it killed head lice.  We got a mangle when I wasn't very old, and I
>ironed linens - sheets, tablecloths, napkins, pillowcases, dishtowels.
>They don't take as much storage space.  You didn't iron one thickness at
>a time with the mangle (or probably by hand), but folded them and did two
>or more layers at a time.
>>  --------- End forwarded message ----------
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