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of your own saving, is, no doubt, the kind this Pennsylvanian refers to. I trust 

 that all of our lady readers will be able to find something among these washing 

 fluids or powders that shall fully meet their wants. Bluings arc kept so gener- 

 ally now by the grocers and druggists they can be bought for less than they can 

 be made. 



8. Flannels, To Wash and Dry, "Without Shrinking.— Flan 

 nels should be washed with as little rubbing as possible; or, better still, pound 

 ing without any rubbing at all, and drying rapidly, and pulling freely, both 

 length-wise and across the goods, if you would avoid shrinkage. 



9. Washing Muslins, Cambrics, and Calicoes.— Stir some of 

 the starch, after it is prepared for use, into the water in which any of these 

 goods are to be washed. 



10. Or, soak them a while in water in which you have put 1 or 3 table- 

 spoonfuls of salt to a pail of water. 



1 1 . For Black and White Calicoes. — A cup or two of weak lye 

 to a pail of wate; is b^st for soaking in. 



12. For Pinlc or Green. — One or 2 table-spoonfuls of good vinegar 

 to the pail of watci Is best. 



13. For Purple or Blue.— Use sal soda, or borax, in powder, 1 or 2 

 table-spoonfuls to a pail of water; but, now, if you use the washing fluid, above, 

 Boak them a little in that, and wash out, as usual, it saves all these troubles with 

 the different colors. 



14. Ribbons, to Wash. — Wash ribbons in cold suds — not very strong, 

 and do not rinse. 



15. Silk, Cashmere and Black Alpaca Dresses, to Cleanse. 

 — Dissolve a table-spoonful of powdered borax in 1 qt. of warm water (soft 

 water), and after dusting thoroughly brush such parts as need it, or the whole, 

 if much worn, and iron on the wrong side. 



16. Black Silk, Alpaca, Serge and Lawn Dresses, to Do 

 Over. — The following on the care and manner of doing over black silk, cash- 

 mere, alpaca, serge and lawn dresses, which I take from Harper's Bazar, is 

 well worth a place here, and will be found worthy of consideration by every 

 woman into whose hands this book shall come. It says: 



" No lady should ever don her alpaca, cashmere or serge without giving it 

 a thorough dusting with broom or brush. Dust permitted to settle in the folds 

 of pleat or shirring will soon be impossible to remove entirely, and give the 

 whole gown that untidy air so much to be deprecated in everything pertaining 

 to a lady's person. 



' ' But after constant use for months, or maybe a year, the most carefully 

 kept black dress will begin to show the effects of use, in a certain rustiness of 

 hue and general dinginess of aspect, if no place actually rubbed or worn. Now 

 is the time to expend a little skill and ingenuity in its renovation, when the 

 economist may be rewarded by coming out in an old dress made new, sure of 

 eliciting the admiration of at least all those who are in the secret. For the 

 undertaking provide yourself with ten cents' worth of soap bark, procurable 

 at an herb or drug store, and boil it in 1 qt. of hot water. Let it steep a while, 

 and then strain into a basin for use. If the job is to be a perfect and thorough. 



