a little bluing; if ivory white, omit the bluing, and if yellow-tinged add a
‘few teaspoons clear coffee to the starch. Run through the starch, squeeze,
roll up in towels, and clap each piece separately until dry: pull gently into
shape, from time to time, with the fingers, and pin on the ironing table or
bosom-board or upon the pillows in the ‘‘spare’’ bedroom. When dry,
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450 THE LAUNDRY.
ress between tissue paper with a hot iron, punch the openings with ear
ivory stiletto, and pick each pearl or loop on the edge with a coarse pivz
until it looks like new lace.
Lawn AND Mustin Dresszs that have faded may be whitened in the boiling
suds, and bleached on the grass, and, when done up, are quite as pretty as
dresses made of new white material. Delicate hued muslin and cambric
dresses may be washed nicely by the following process: Shave half a pouna
of common hard soap into a gallon of boiling water; let it melt, turn it into
a tub of lukewarm water; stir a quart of wheat bran into a second tub of
lukewarm water, and have ready a third tub with clear water; put the dress
into the first tub of suds, rub gently, or rather ‘‘souse’+it up and down, and
squeeze it out; treat it the same in the tub of bran water; rinse, dry and dip
in starch made the same as for shirts; dry again, and then rinse thoroughly
in clear water; dry again, and sprinkle with a whisk-broom or sprinkler;
roll up in a thick cloth while the iron gets hot, and iron with them as hot as
they can be used without scorching the dress. By taking a clear day, it is
iittle trouble to do several dresses ina few hours. ;
To Remove GREASE FROM SILK, Cotton, LINEN oR WoRrsTED GoopDs.—
Rub magnesia freely on both sides of silk or worsted goods and hang away.
Benzine, ether or soap will take out spots from silk, but remember the goods
must not be rubbed. Oil of turpentine or benzine will remove spots of
paint, varnish or pitch from white or colored cotton or woolen goods. After
using it, they should be washed in soap-suds. Spots from sperm candles,
stearine, and the like, should be softened and removed by ninety-five per
cent. alcohol, then sponged off with a weak alcohol, and a small quantity of
ammonia added to it. Holding white cotton or linen over the fumes of
burning sulphur, and wetting in warm chlorine water, will take out wine or
fruit stains. The sooner the remedy is applied, after any of these spots or
stains are discovered, the more effectual the restoration. From white linen
or cotton by soap-suds or weak lye, and from calicoes with warm soap-suds.
From woolens by soap-suds or ammonia. On silks use either yolk of egg
with water, magnesia, ether, benzine, ammonia, or French chalk.
To Press AND CLEAN S1LKs.—All satin goods should be pressed upon the
right side. To press and clean black silk, shake out all the dust, clean well
with a flannel cloth, rubbing it up and down over the silk: this takes out
all dust that may be left; take some good lager beer and sponge the silk,
both on the wrong and right side, sponging across the width of the silk,
and not down the length, and with a moderately-warm iron, press what is
intended for the wrong side. After sponging, it is better to wait a few
minutes before pressing, as the irons will not be so apt to stick.
Or, sponge with hot coffee, thoroughly freed from sediment by being
strained through muslin. The silk is sponged on the side intended to show,
it is allowed to become partially dry, and then ironed on the wrong side.
The coffee removes every particle of grease, and restores the brilliancy of
silk, without giving it either the shiny appearance or crackly or papery
stiffness obtained by beer or any other liquid. The silk appears thickened
by the process, and this good effect remains.
To Make Harp Soar.—Place one gallon of good soft soap in a kettle to
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a little bluing; if ivory white, omit the bluing, and if yellow-tinged add a
‘few teaspoons clear coffee to the starch. Run through the starch, squeeze, roll up in towels, and clap each piece separately until dry: pull gently into shape, from time to time, with the fingers, and pin on the ironing table or bosom-board or upon the pillows in the ‘‘spare’’ bedroom. When dry,
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ress between tissue paper with a hot iron, punch the openings with an ivory stiletto, and pick each pearl or loop on the edge with a coarse pin until it looks like new lace.
Lawn AND Mustin Dresszs that have faded may be whitened in the boiling suds, and bleached on the grass, and, when done up, are quite as pretty as dresses made of new white material. Delicate hued muslin and cambric dresses may be washed nicely by the following process: Shave half a pouna of common hard soap into a gallon of boiling water; let it melt, turn it into a tub of lukewarm water; stir a quart of wheat bran into a second tub of lukewarm water, and have ready a third tub with clear water; put the dress into the first tub of suds, rub gently, or rather ‘‘souse’+it up and down, and squeeze it out; treat it the same in the tub of bran water; rinse, dry and dip in starch made the same as for shirts; dry again, and then rinse thoroughly in clear water; dry again, and sprinkle with a whisk-broom or sprinkler; roll up in a thick cloth while the iron gets hot, and iron with them as hot as they can be used without scorching the dress. By taking a clear day, it it little trouble to do several dresses in a few hours. ;
To Remove GREASE FROM SILK, Cotton, LINEN oR WoRrsTED GoopDs.— Rub magnesia freely on both sides of silk or worsted goods and hang away. Benzine, ether or soap will take out spots from silk, but remember the goods must not be rubbed. Oil of turpentine or benzine will remove spots of paint, varnish or pitch from white or colored cotton or woolen goods. After using it, they should be washed in soap-suds. Spots from sperm candles, stearine, and the like, should be softened and removed by ninety-five per cent. alcohol, then sponged off with a weak alcohol, and a small quantity of ammonia added to it. Holding white cotton or linen over the fumes of burning sulphur, and wetting in warm chlorine water, will take out wine or fruit stains. The sooner the remedy is applied, after any of these spots or stains are discovered, the more effectual the restoration. From white linen
or cotton by soap-suds or weak lye, and from calicoes with warm soap-suds.
From woolens by soap-suds or ammonia. On silks use either yolk of egg with water, magnesia, ether, benzine, ammonia, or French chalk.
To Press AND CLEAN S1LKs.—All satin goods should be pressed upon the right side. To press and clean black silk, shake out all the dust, clean well with a flannel cloth, rubbing it up and down over the silk: this takes out all dust that may be left; take some good lager beer and sponge the silk, both on the wrong and right side, sponging across the width of the silk, and not down the length, and with a moderately-warm iron, press what is intended for the wrong side. After sponging, it is better to wait a few minutes before pressing, as the irons will not be so apt to stick.
Or, sponge with hot coffee, thoroughly freed from sediment by being strained through muslin. The silk is sponged on the side intended to show, it is allowed to become partially dry, and then ironed on the wrong side. The coffee removes every particle of grease, and restores the brilliancy of silk, without giving it either the shiny appearance or crackly or papery stiffness obtained by beer or any other liquid. The silk appears thickened by the process, and this good effect remains.
To Make Harp Soar.—Place one gallon of good soft soap in a kettle to
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