When a garment arrives, the very first thing that is done is to tab it firmly with a ticket which cannot possibly become detached. This having been done, unless something extraordinary happens there is no fear of any mistake being made in the allocation of the garment in due course to its proper owner. had to have even just a few years ago. It is obvious that when a day will bring you back a clean suit you will not need to pos-Sess so many suits as when you had to wait four days for their return from the cleaner's or even perhaps a week.
Very frequently, too, orders ar pecial—which means that the return of the garment is urgently required. In such a case can be returned clean to its owner in 13 hours from its recepüon. This is really wonderful service. And it means no diminution in the efficiency of the cleaning process. For th r is a surprisingly quick affair. special" order does mean, howeve that the garment is put ahead of the others when it reaches the stages tailoring and ironing, and for this, of cours a modest extra charge is made.
The foregoing follow-through of a garment on its visit to a modern dry-
In the case of thick winter clothes or any clothes which show signs of being infected by mildew. these are now taken away to be hung for a time ina hot chamber, where they remain until they are completely dried out. This is exceedingly necessary to the success of the finished process.
The next move is to that all-important piece of machinery—the "bath." The open to anyone inter for, as has been area welcomed by the reliable scrupulous thoroughness of the whole process must impress the visitor, and she must ask herself whether she can depend on such treatment in any but a modern establishment which realizes the necessity for first-rate work in a world of competition. The answer is distinctly in the negative. ars
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