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Show With a little care and a bag of Indl- H go white clothes can easily be made to H assume the pearly tint which was their H ordinary character in the households jH of our grandmothers. Indigo merely IH tints the clothes instead of dyeing jH them, as the modern blue bag does, and IH leaves no mysterious spots of Iron rust IH caused by the use of Prussian blue n IH manufactured bluings. Neither does IH indigo streak the clothes when prop- erly used. Tie the indigo in a thin bag, H lay It In a small bowl or basin and pour H boiling water over it. When It Is thor- H oughly scalded squeeze St and pour the H liquid thus obtained into a tub of clear H water. Do not plunge a large number H of pieces Into the bluing water at once, H but blue and wring each piece sepa- H ratcly and hang it up immediately to H dry. It is not necessary to blue clothes H every time they are washed. Every il other time is sufficient. Ml |