Buckeye cookery

For WASHING Goops THAT FADE, use crude ammonia instead of soap. Soiled neckties may be made to look like new by taking one-half a teas spoon of spirits of hortshorn to a tea-cup of water; wash well, and, if very much soiled, put through a second water, with less ammonia in. Lay it on a clean, white cloth, and gently wipe with another until dry. Te CLEAN SILK AND WooLEN DRESS Goops.—Any silk or wooled goods may be washed in gasoline, rubbing asif in water, without injury. The dirt is quickly and easily removed, but no change takes place in the color ' of the fabric. Great care must be taken nut to use the gasoline near a stove or light, — 446 THE LAUNDRY. — as there is a gas arising from it which is very inflammable, and might take fire from a lamp set a foot or two distant. IN WASHING THE DISH-WIPERS, do not boil them with’the fine white dresses, shirts, table-cloths, sheets, pillow-cases, napkins, or fine towels, but be as par: ticular to have the suds nice and clean. It is better to remove a part of the suds, and add clean cold water, so that the wipers will not become yellow by boiling in too strong a suds. On each wash-day wash thoroughly all that have been used the previous week. Sink AND THREAD GLoves are best washed by placing them on the hands, and washing in borax water or white castile soap-suds, the same as if wash- ing the hands; rinse under a stream of water, and dry with a towel; keep the gloves on until they are about half dried, take off carefully, and fold them up so that they will look as nearly like what they were when new as possible, and lay between clean towels under a weight. : To CuEAN Rippons.—Dissolve white soap in boiling water; when cool enough to bear the hand, pass the ribbons through it, rubbing gently so as not to injure the texture; rinse through lukewarm water, and pin on a board to dry. If the colors are bright yellow, maroon, crimson, or scarlet, add a few drops of oil of vitriol to the rinse-water; if the color is bright scarlet, add to the rinse-water a few drops of the muriate of tin. wy Brown Linen—May be kept looking new until worn out if always washed §n starch-water and hay tea. Make flour starch in the ordinary way. For one dress put on the stove a common sized milk pan full of timothy hay, pour on water, cover, and boil until the water is of a dark green color, then turn into the starch, let the goods soak in it a few minutes, and wash with: out soap; the starch will clean the fabric and no rinsing is necessary. To WasH CoLtorED Musiins.—Wash in warm, not hot, suds, made with soft water and best white soap, if it is to be had.. Do not soak them, and ‘wash only one thing ata time. Change the suds as soon as it looks dingy, and put the garments at once into fresh suds. Rinse first in clear water, then in slightly blued. Squeeze quite dry, but don’t wring the dress. Hang in a shady place where the sunshine will not strike it, as that fades all colors, To WasH THREAD Lace.—Cover a bottle with white flannel, baste the lace carefully on the flannel, and rub with white soap; place the bottle in a jar filled with warm suds, let remain two or three days, changing the water several times, and boil with the finest white clothes on washing day; when cooled a little, rinse several times in plenty of cold water, wrap a soft. dry towel around it, and place it in the sun; when dry, unwind, but do not starch.