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•nt r J dry. We do not like this so well as basting ifce cnrtaine to the tape. 

 We fancy the lace will be more injured on the hooks than it could be if sewed 

 on. Lace should never be ironed. It costs but very little to make these 

 bars, and they will last a life-time if carefully put away when not in use; 

 and the curtains can be made to look quite as well as if done up in a French 

 laundry, and will last much longer. It coats every year twice the expense 

 of this frame to hire curtains done up. 



Con-renient Clothes Bars. — The bars are two inches wide by one inch 

 thick. Four bars are three feet eleven inches long, and four are one foot 

 eleven inches. The rods are dressed out one inch square, and of the follow- 

 ing lengths: Four rods four feet long; two rods four feet two inches long; two 

 rods three feet ten inches long; one rod four feet three inches long for the 

 center, to project three inches at one end; another rod for the top four feet 

 four inches long and to project two inches in order to receive the piece shown 

 in the .engraving to regulate the height. It can be shut so as to not occnpy 

 more than a foot in 

 width, or spread so as 

 to hang a washing on. 

 A three-fourth inch 

 auger should be used 

 in making. Any one 

 who can use a plane or 

 auger can make them. 



To Wash Blank. 

 et«.- Take half a cake 

 of soap, cut it into 

 small pieces and dis- 

 solve it thoroughly in 

 hot water. Pour this 

 into enough cold water 

 to cover the blankets; 

 add two ounces of bo- 

 rax (pulverized dis- 

 solves most readily), and put your blankets to soak all night. In the morn- 

 ing take them out and squeeze most of the water out of them and rinse thor- 

 oughly in cold water, in which a little borax has been dissolved; put them 

 through a second rinsing water and then through the bltiing water. Do 

 not wring or squeeze them this time, but hang them up to drain and dry. 

 The easiest way is to take them, while in the last water, ont under the 

 clothes line, as it is not convenient to carry them when full of water. It is 

 best not to double them over the line, but hang by one end or side. Of 

 eourse you want a sunny day for drying them nicely, and if you put in to 

 ■oak at night and the next day is stormy, it will not hurt them to soak longer. 

 If the wool is very greasy, use more soap and borax. Fine flaimcls and 

 baby's crocheted skirts and sacqnes arc nice when washed in this way, and 

 if you use cold water they will not shrink. Vary the proportions of soap and 

 borax to suit the quantity of water. I would not advise you to wash colored 

 goods in this way, as they might fade. 



'Washing Pl«id_(l) Take one pound of sal soda and half a pound of 

 unslacked lime, and put them in a gallon of water: boil twenty minutes, let 

 It stand till cool, then drain off »nd put in a small jug or jar; soak your dirty 



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