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Show I HOW TO CLEAN STRAW HATS. To the Editor: Will you please answer through the home column of your paper how to clean straw hats? SUBSCRIBER, Vernal, Utah. Answer by John R. Horton, Assistant in Entomology. Buy 10 cents worth of Oxalic acid at any drug store. Dissolve one part of hc acid in two parts of water. Solution is quickened 'by heating gently. Take perfectly clean white cloth, dip a comer with the. solution and rub the soiled ptoccs thoroughly. Care should be used not to soak the straw, and the -dissolved dirt should be wiped oft with the dry part of the cloth immediately after each applica tion. Do not allow the wash to come t in contact with the hat-band, as it will discolor it. The band is easily re-i re-i moved and cleaned separately with any clothes cleaning fluid. Oxalic acid is poisonous if taken into the mouth and the hands should be thoroughly thor-oughly washed with soap and1 water , after the work is finished, and the cloth used should be burned. |