How To Keep White Clothing

To Keep White Clothing from turning yellow through the winter, wash all the starch put in the fall, rinse in bluing water and put away unironed.

How To Prevent Muslin Turning Yellow

There are some kinds of cotton cloth that invariably turn yellow after the first washing. If there is any fear of this, soak the garments two days before washing in clear water.

How To Remove Mildew

Wet the spot, soap well and cover thickly with finely pulverized chalk or whiting.

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Soak in sour milk, rinse and lay in the sun.

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Dip in a solution of 1 part of chloride of lime to, 12 parts of soft water, strained; lay in the sun. Repeat if necessary. So soon as white rinse thoroughly.

Washing Blankets

Put the blankets in hot soap-suds with a little borax in the water. Rub lightly. Too much rubbing and wringing hardens and shrinks the flannel. Rinse in clear water the same temperature as the suds. Run through a wringer and hang up to dry.

How To Wash Flannels

To Wash Flannels of all kinds pursue the same plan as for blankets, though, if necesary, soap may be rubbed upon the soiled places. Bring in before fairly dry and roll up for ironing.

Renovating Black Silk

Sponge with water containing a little ammonia, or sponge with hot coffee (strained). Sponge on the side intended to show. It may be pinned to the carpet1 and dried, or allowed to partially dry before ironing on the wrong side. Shiny appearance of worn silk may be removed by sponging with borax water (1 teaspoonful of the powdered to 1 cupful water), or rub off with gasoline.

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To renovate a black silk, rub each breadth carefully with a woolen cloth to free from dust, and then sponge the 'right side with water in which one or two old black kid gloves have been boiled (1 quart of water for a pair of gloves). Iron while wet with very hot irons, on the wrong side. This cleanses, stiffens and slightly dyes, and gives quite the appearance of newness.

Renovating Colored Silks

The same method may be resorted to by using kid gloves the exact shade of the dress. For this reason old kid gloves should be saved.

Renovating Slack Cashmere

Wash in warm suds with a little borax in the water. Rinse in bluing water very blue, hang up to dry without wringing and iron on the wrong side while quite damp. It will look equal to new. Some use soap bark.

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Sponge with ammonia water until the pieces are thoroughly wet. Roll tightly and begin ironing at once. Cover the board with soft flannel, lay the right side down and iron dry on the wrong side. Brush off any flannel lint that may remain on the right side. A strip of old black broad-cloth, four or five inches wide, rolled up tightly and sewed in place, is better than a sponge for cleansing black and dark colored clothes, as it leaves no lint.