Show tl H 00 1 t tI I J a e ess I W U S bd U v K f e 0 i 1 1 0 0 W J ss 1 I It Ii W S sg d V VA m sisA ff i t i 0 A FORMULA FOR FOB QUICK EASY AND BEAUTIFUL FUL LAUNDRY LAUNDR WORK WORX APPLICABLE TO EITHER MISTRESS OR MAID AS SHE MAY ItAY DIRECT OR ACTUALLY PERFORM THE TEE LABOR OF OP WASHING 1 AND L IRONING The quickest thorough washing is the best washing Except for Cor very dirty things soaking hinders cleanliness rather than helps to it IL But It is best to make haste a trifle slowly Sort your clothes carefully before a thing is wet Wash table linen first then bed furnishings then skirts night nightgowns gowns and so on then colored things next stockings and underwear and last of all the soaked bits Two wooden tubs of handy hand size in addition to the set tubs help out very much One may be kept especially for table linen and for rinsing fine white willie I things Use U e the other for soaking but out outdo do not soak too long An hour ho r Is enough to soften soft n and dissolve the dirt without setting it all through the gar garments garments garments ments Soda in the soaking suds eats eat I and destroys the fabric but the dirt will come co e out easier asier without damage I Ito to the tue fibers if the soiled things are wet through with warm wann soda water and well wrung before beCore they the go in soak This wetting and wringing out of clear cear soda water will both whiten and sweeten the whole wash without hurting the clothes The caustic soda attacks the dirt first and is dissolved or rather washed away before it has I time to eat the fabric It must not be i too strong a tablespoonful of soda is I enough for three gallops of soft water ater With hard water use more soda as part of the strength goes to neutralize the lime in the water Spots and Soaps Keep an eye ee for spots and ond stains In Inthe Inthe inthe the sorting Either wet fruit stains with alcohol or pour boiling water through them A stain once set with suds is hopeless Wash Vash out specks of machine oil from new garments with cold water ater and a little soar soap or else drop kerosene through them The washing is surest Grass and mud stains UDon light print or muslin frocks can often be taken out without injury to the pattern by b sprinkling the stain thickly with salt wetting welting the salt with the juice of a ripe tomato and laying for some hours in the sun un Borax soa ts s which are white and mild and have little free alkali are the best but any decent t soap soaD will answer very ery A well ell indeed if only none riene n ne of oC it is left in the clothes It saves much time and strength to dissolve the soap be before before fore fote beginning to wash Cut up a cake cover it with water and set it over a slow fire re until it turns to jelly Wash in either cold water or warm as suits your convenience hut but keep the water near the same temperature all the way through Alternations of hot and cold indiscriminately full fuU all sorts of fab fabrics fabrics ries and make them dead and coarse looking Lukewarm water is best beat un until until until til you come to the boil from then the clothes should be dropped into clear cold rinsing water Vater well wrung rung out of it then rinsed again in lukewarm water and blued at the same some tempera temperature ture Fold the clothes as flat fiat as pos vos possible os sible to send them through the wringer thus there is less soap to be rinsed out It i ts the remnant suds and dirt that make garments yellow ellow and it is almost impossible to rinse out the soap if the clothes lie long between wringing and rinsing The quicker their passage from the first suds to the line the whiter and sweeter smelling they are likely to be Kerosene in the boiling whitens clothes safely especially such as are arc yellow from lying Put in a table tablespoonful tablespoonful spoonful to each gallon of suds For very yellow or grimy things make an emulsion of kerosene clear lime water and turpentine in equal parts Shake them together until creamy then add adda a cupful to a of clothes and boil for half as an a hour The same emul emulsion emulsion sion sian is good for very dirty dirt things such as jumpers overalls working shirts childrens trousers Use it in tion with strong suds as hot as the hand can bear and rub a little di directly directly I upon dirty grease greas spots Let the clothes stand five minutes m before be re I washing out and be sure to have haye the 1 second suds and add an d the rinsing water as 1 hot as the first The Way Woy to Dry Clothes CI thes It is almost as essential that table and bed be l linen shall be properly hung I out as that they the shall He be well d If they are allowed to dry out of shape stretching and pulling them straight wears them much more than use Hang table cloths and sheets evenly across the line ends down The warp threads are much stronger stroner than that the woof if stretched habitually lengthwise the things will split along long the fold It Is the iame same with towels and napkins In Indeed Indeed Indeed deed everything washable lasts longer if hung to dry so that the weight while wet comes mainly upon the longway threads Unless you can go straight at ironing do not fold down clothes damp from the line Even then the will not smell so clean as if they had been allowed to set net et bone bon dry di then th sprinkled Letting damp clothes lie folded over night is a laundry sin sil 51 of or I the first water With perfectly dry I clothes ironing can wait your leisure s sand and your pleasure but once they are damp tire fire or sudden death are the only valid postponements Thin curtains as madras Nottingham N lace are best shaken free fre I of dust washed in warm suds by b squeezing not rubbing boiled rinsed rInse blued and dried as quickly as possible When dry diy baste a hem bent in the top and bottom of each curtain also supply yourself with two unpainted wooden curtain rods long enough to stretch a curtain full breadth upon I SUp Slip a rod at top and bottom of a cur curtain I tain tam then sprinkle it and hang it from the upper rods where there Is plenty of air The weight of the lower one will hold it smooth and straight until it dries Repeat until all aU the curtains are in shone shane sh then rip riD out the hems and press the ends lightly with a warm not hot Iron If by chance there are any wrinkles or cat faces In the cur curtains curtains curtains after drying sprinkle them light lightly lightly ly b just as you hang them at ot toe tiie Min ain aindow dow and pull the rough places smooth Curtains with ruffles can have hav the ruf ruffles ruffles fles ties fluted after coming off the t th ro rods ls If It hanging is i S inconvenient the drying I curtains can be stretched horizontally between the two rods Take care to I have the rods smooth and thick enough not to spring I Prints and Starch I ITo To make a good curtain starch dis I sOlve two tablespoonfuls of dry starch in a little cold water add it to a gallon of or boiling water and cook for three minutes Then put in a pinch of salt three lumps of white sugar wax white of course the size of a rut ut meg and half a pint of strong gum mim water Cook five minutes longer blue very slightly and strain twice before dipping in the dry dr curtains There is isso isso Isso so great reat a difference in the absorbent posse powe power of fabrics it is well to starch and dry dl a corner before putting in all the curtains then if the corner is too stiff or too t o limp remedy is easy To wash prints in perfection you 1 must choose a special day dry with i plenty of air stirring arid add abundant sunshine Yet the prints I must be dried in the shade if It they are areto areto to look new af afterward Sunlight plays I havoc with wet things that go through it dry unscathed Indigo prints mad madder madder madder der browns brownsand and pinks black and white and the whole family of ginghams and ought to be bewell beell bewell well ell shaken then wrung out of clear cold salt saIt water washed quickly through white soapsuds rinsed twice I and dried quickly in the shade Make a starch for them as for curtains only ading twice the quantity of gum nurn water w ter Blue and black linens and col eel colored colored ored piques need the same treatment Ecru and grass linens s ind nd cream grounded prints should have bare yellow ellow starch colored either with strong clear coffee or or oi made with water in which a handful of hay has been boiled Wash mourning prints with either coffee grounds or tea leaves in place 1 of soap soan do not starch them all an over but as you ou iron them of course on the wrong side rub the surface light lightly ll lightly ht ly Iy over with gum Arabic dissolved in stron black coffee Wet only a a little bit at a time and iron perfectly p dry Good Ironing Organdies lawns and delicately flow flowered flowered ered erect stuffs generally ought to be washed wash d with wheat bran instead of soap Tie a pint of bran loosely lit In a cheesecloth bag and rub the clothes with it as though it were ere a cake of soap Wash Vash them up and down in the water which will be milky and starchy starch and press Dress the bran bag close into all folds and gathers Have Base the water barely milk warm so as not to cook the bran If the tilie clothes are much soiled you may ma need a fresh bag of it itin itin itin in fresh water Rinse afterward in three waters dry and starch with raw starch wet up in clear gum water Do not let skirts dry dr double Hang them over a wooden barrel hoop made Cast fast to a After starch starching ing lug pull Dull and clap almost dry then let hang an hour Sprinkle and fold an hour before ironing and iron with ith irons oit below scorching heat The garments garment should sh uld come out better than new If there is much green or mauve or brown in the pattern it is well at atthe atthe atthe the first washing to wet Vet the arment in alum water before putting it in the bran A tablespoonful of ammonia in inthe inthe the th bran water ater makes many colors brighter and helps materially to keep clear white grounds white To wash fine white whit waists all aU lace and embroidery without wear shake them well wet them thern in clear water with ammonia added then lay la t them in an earthen vessel cover with strong white soapsuds and set in the I Isun sun for three hours No rubbing is I needed the sunlight takes out the dirt i Rinse in three waters blue well and I starch as ss directed for muslins Iron on the wrong v rong side using a sleeve board beard covered with flannel Ironing is tedious work and trying but may be made less so by a few simple expedients One is the foot I cushion Make a flat pad Dad of excel excelsior three inches thick and big enough I to stand comfortably upon It is a sovereign help for the ache that comes from long standing Another is the r knee linee board thin and light as a s foot I and three feet r et long which may maybe i ibe be held in the lap for Ironing small things such as napkins handkerchiefs chiefs collars Still another Is J the thO screen to set sat betwixt stove and iron ironing irOnIng i ing table fending heat beat rays ra s And J best of all is the oil heater beater which will keep three irons going at once and b by help of which you may iron in the th ari a ri riest est room about the house |