This is truly a burning shame if anything could so be called. It is possible, too, to get a thin bit of asbestos encased in a bit of ticking and so protect the laundress from discomfort and your clothing from destruction. These iron holders could be made by the children of the house who are always looking for something that they can make to give to Mother, Auntie or Grandma. THE LAUNDRY CHUTE Much time could be saved in the laundry if whenever it were possible a chute could be built into which clothes can be thrown and go directly to the laundry where is situated a basket or a terminal closet to receive them. Here stuffing the dumb waiter is obviated, also carrying the clothes in baskets down the lift or just using the ugly clothes hamper in dressing room or bath room. Here is a more or less suggestive plan of arrangement. ARRANGEMENT _Assuring less expenditure in labor and money._ 1. Soiled linen chute in one corner of the room. 2. A table near to sort laundry before washing. 3. Tubs in center of the room to be accessible. 4. After clothes are washed and blued they can be partially dried in dryer and ironed. 5. Then a table on which to place clothes to be ironed. 6. Ironer next in the best light possible and arranged away from wall to permit two people working at it, if necessary. 7. Skirt and sleeve board next. 8. After which another skirt and sleeve board or a valet table or another plain table. Some people keep a sewing table in the laundry but it is easier to have the sewing done in the sewing room and away from the laundry work. Because the different maids might much better stay in their own territory and failing maids it’s easier to keep your threads any place but _in_ a laundry. FLAT IRONS Because there are some dainty things that cannot be put through a machine, electric flatirons are absolutely indispensable in a laundry. For that reason there are many kinds on the market. They are usually made from 2¹⁄₂ ℔s. to 15 ℔s. Most have but one heat, but some have three heats. A traveler will be pleased with the adjustable 3 lb. iron which has a voltage adjustment making it practical with 220 or 110 voltage. SOAPS AND POWDERS With the best washing machines you get bad results if you do not use good soaps or cleaning powders. There is a very good powder on the market which not only cleans the clothes well, and leaves no greasy residue, but is really not a soap at all. It combines rapidly with water, and makes a fine suds and cleans very rapidly. For the most part to-day, yellow soaps and white soaps as cleaners are on a par but are not as good for laundry purposes, since the resin in the yellow soap combines unhappily with your clothes. White soaps are best, if you want good results.