When the garment has been placed in the bath the machine is started. Through the glass panel you may watch the garment circulating at speed through the turbulent fluid. Here is no rubbing or pressure which can injure delicate fabrics—simply the gentle action of a fluid continually passing through it.
The time needed for the cleansing process has been worked out to the second. At the appointed moment a switch stops the machinery and the next thing that happens is that the dripping garment slides down a chute into a covered drying machine.
Inside this machine further mysteries go on, but for a remarkably short space of time. It seems but a minute before the garment is lifted out dry and with but the slightest odour of the cleansing fluid still clinging to it. Nevertheless it may be said that it still possesses something of an odour and anyhow it has something else coming to it which it can't avoid. It is placed into a huge drum which having swallowed it proceeds to rotate with it. From this drum it presently emerges. This time the strongest sniff can detect nothing which would give away the fact that it had been "dry-cleaned." It is, as far as cleanliness goes, as new But it has yet to pass another is given over {o an employee who at a table surrounded wi li basins and small and workmanlike brushes. It is the duty of this gentleman to inspect the ment for any mi us which have not yielded to the blandishments of the cleansing fluid. It does sometimes happen that a stain remains and requires a special chemical to deal with it. If such a stain is detected the proper steps are taken to remove it, and it will be an obstinate stain indeed which resists the tment meted out to it by the gentleman of the basins and brushes.
You y the new dry-cleaning is expensive' of course, more expensive n the laundryman. But one visit to his ilevolent wash-tub will take 25 per cent off the value of your white trousers. On the other hand, if you select a good dry cleaner they will return to you like ne And isn't your personal smartness worth paying a little extra for? With a carefully treated wardrobe you are prepared for anything—but if you have been cheeseparing over the care of your clothes you may have to make sudden replacements at high cost and much trouble.
The latest dry-cleaning methods are most efficient and exceedingly quick in execution. However, the machinery used is complicated and therefore expensive. It follows that there must be capital behind any up-to-date dry-cleaning esta intelligent management ana se considerations are sufficient to explain the difference in charges between modern-method cleaners and those doubtful places with high-sounding names to which your garments will inevitably be sent if you simply say, "Boy, sendee this go dry-cleaner."
There are now in Shanghai a number of first-rate dry-cleaners situated in all parts of the and within easy h of everyone. isit to any one of them: Xo will come y with a definite know how the thin; is done and—this is a practice certainty—be resolved that your o clothes are going to be properly cleaned in future
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