The following is a method of washing flannel which will be found quite easy, even to people who are not used to hard work:

Cut into shreds a pound of yellow soap, and put them into a saucepan with two quarts of water, near the fire or over a low gas-jet; and the odds and ends left in the soap-bowls of the kitchen box can also be added.

Do not allow the soap to boil, only to simmer, and put it aside until the following day or until wanted. It should then have formed into a strong jelly.

To wash the flannel, two large pans, or a divided wooden tub, will be required. This latter is a most useful article for washing flannels, since an indiarubber wringer can be placed on the division of the tub. Fill both divisions with water, as hot as the hands can bear it, and into one put sufficient soap jelly to turn the water into a soapy lather.

If flannel be new, use more jelly, and keep the article immersed quite soapy. Should the second water used for rinsing not remove all the soap, use a third water, but do this very quickly.

The flannels should be arranged in order of colour and cleanliness, white and clean articles being washed first.

Shake each article well, and plunge singly into the soapy water; then rub lightly all over, and, with the aid of a piece of soap kept near at hand, give an extra rub to those portions likely to be soiled, such as the collar and wristbands of shirts.