Show SHABBY CLOTHES How to Make Old Garments Look as Good as Hew A woman of wonderful resources has just discovered a new and very sure way of renovating and restoring to their former appearance spotted soiled or faded cloth or serge gowns Pick about 20 ivy leaves young green ones by choice wash them carefully and place them in a jug or basin Add about one pint of boiling water cover up the basin or jug and leave to soak for two or three hours when it will be ready for use Meanwhile the garment must be thoroughly brushed inside and out and all untidy braid or lining removed re-moved from the bottom Vlen ready spread it on the table arid carefully sponge with the ivy water It must then he hung out to dry when it will be found to have recovered its former color and to look quite like new Black silk may be cleaned in the same I manner but it needs more care If the silk is in breadths it must be lightly sponged and then tightly rolled over a I cloth wound round a roller and left to dry Black lace may also be renovated when soiled or brown with age by sponging with ivy water and then rolling roll-ing over a cloth wound round a roller It should not be ironed TO REMOVE MILDEW STAINS Mix equal quantities of soft soap and powdered starch with half the quantities quanti-ties of salt make into a paste with lemon juice Lay this paste on each side of the mildew stains and let the article layout on the grass night and day till the stains disappear Soaking the clothes stained in buttermilk for a considerable time then washing them in the usual manner and finally leaving them to bleach all night on the grass is an old fi ° lnoned country method which is effectual Another is to make a paste of table salt and lemon juice and lay this thickly on the spots which should have been previously wet and I soaped the linen so treated being left j in the open air to bleach for several hours at east Tl f best clement in any of these treatments is the nights bleach In towns where this impracticable the best thing is to make a solution of equal parts of chloride of lime and common 1 com-mon soda in boiling wateronehalf pound each of the lime and soda to three quarts of water dip the stains into this for a few seconds till they disappear dis-appear then rinse the article in boiling soapsuds and send to the wash as usual us-ual Do not let the article stay more than a fqw seconds in the solution or it will burn them Whenever possible I I do not omit the night bleach |