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Washing "Woolens. — If you do uot wiali to have white wooleus shrink 

 when washed, make a good suds of hard soap, and wash the flannels in it. 

 Do not rub woolens like cotton cloth, but simply squeeze them between the 

 hands, or slightly pound them with a clothes pounder. The suds used 

 should be strong, and the woolens should be rinsed in warm water. By 

 rubbing flannels on a board, and rinsing them m. cold water, they soon 

 become very thick. 



Scorched Linen. — Peel and slice two onions; extract the juice by pound- 

 ing and squeezing; add to the juice half an ounce ol cut fine white soap, two 

 ounces of fuller's earth, and half a pint of vinegar; boil all together. When 

 cool, spread it over the scorched linen and let it diy on; then wash and boil 

 out the linen, and the spots will disappear, unless burned bo badly as to 

 break the thread. 



To Whiten Linen. — Stains occasioned by fruit, iron rust, and other 

 similar causes, may be removed by applying to the parts injured a weak 

 solution of the chloride of lime — the cloth having been well washed — or of 

 soda, oxaUc acid, or salts of lem(m, in warm water. The parts subjected to 

 this operation should be subsequently well rinsed in soft clear warm water, 

 without soap, and be immediately dried in the sun. 



To Prevent Streaking. — Do not let your laundress or washerwoman 

 put clothes into the bluing water until they have been well shaken; if tossed 

 m while folded, as they come through the wringer they are almost certain to 

 be streaked with bluing, and although after repeated waahings the«e streaks 

 will come out, every one knows how aggravating it is to use napkins or 

 handkerchiefs that show ti'aces of careless washing. 



IVashlng Merinos and Silk. — The following directions for washing 

 merinos, lambswool and silk under-clothing may be useful: Use one pound 

 of dissolved soap in four gallons of warm water, in which well linse the 

 articles to be washed, drawing them repeatedly through the hand, wring 

 them as dry as possible to remove the soap; rinse them again briskly in 

 clean, lukewarm water; wring and stretch them to their proper shape, and 

 dry in open air if possible. 



To Wash a Muslin Dress. — Make a good lather, and wash the muslin 

 in cold water, never putting it into warm water, even to rinse it. If the 

 muslin is green, add a wineglassful of vinegar to the water in which it is 

 rinsed; if lilac, the same quantity of ammonia. For black and white muslins, 

 use a small quantity of sugar of lead. 



To Remove Rnst from Linen. — Dissolve an ounce of oxalic acid in a 

 pint of water, apply liberally to the spots of iron rust, then expose them to 

 the sun's rays for half a day. The same will remove ink stains, but in 

 either case it must have the first chance— that is, before soap suds or any 

 other application. Label the bottle poison! 



To Wash a Cambric Handkerchief. — To wash a fine cambric hand- 

 kerchief, embroidered in colored silks, so that the colors do not run, the 

 secret is to wash in a soap lather very quickly, wring thoroughly and then 

 iron, so that it dries at once. There should be no soaking, and the em- 

 broidered corner should be kept out of the water as much as possible. A 

 little alum m the water will make the process more sure. 



