Show ABOLT hashing HASI inG DAY DAV valuable flints and pertinent sug bus gest ions for the drudgery of the whole week is ia often comprised comprise in the one ona word washing day modern invention has made priceless price ess the clothes wringer to the wearied housekeeper hut but there has been no improvements which have bare taken the place of the old timo time rubbing board the zinc wash board is ia much better than the old time wooden ones but this is ie a small matter servants who do most of the work are often particularly obstinate in the matter swashing of washing and have methods of their ow own 1 which they cling to with steadfastness dass sorting of the lite clothes for tho the washing abound always be bedone dono by one of the family if there is no hired housekeeper all articles which are stained with fruit should be put by themselves as those stains which dib appear magically in boiling water will be permanently set if wet in cold or lukewarm water coffee stairs must be removed with boiling water and tea stains with cold water it is best beat to soak coarse clothes over night light but fine clothes are better left folded till the la laun undress dreas is ready to wash them after the tha necessary rubbing the clothes should be put in the tha boll boil er and scalded thoroughly no soap or washing machine will take t tha place of this process pro ceas many Us y carer careful I 1 housekeepers use a homemade home m made adewus wash ins ing fluid in the boiler while others add a little melted soap in the water soda should not be used except to scald up old washcloths wash cloths dusters and othor other coarse pieces it is too power ful an alkali to use in washing fine mus muslin linor or linen the clothes that are removed from the boiler may lie in a tub well covered and steam tor for an hour or they may be rinsed at once in several tubs of clear water and finally in blueing water ines servants often throw a largo larg quantity of cloth clothes into the blueing water which cau causes ses streaks of blueing through them when the garments are dry only a few piel pieces 08 ata at a time can be put in blueing clothes should only be a blue bine enough to give a pearly white riess to the fab tie ric servants are very liable to over blue their clo clothes cl othos them to remedy this some borne housekeepers house keepers keepes use blueing for two weeks and oal omit t it for two weeks all white clothes should be dried out doors in the sunlight the tha freezing cold of winter and the heat beat of the summers sun each bleaches them A clothes pin bag made of strong bed ticking is much bettor better tn than a basket it can be BUS around the waist and is ia then at hand band and it may be washed and kept cleat clean brown brown soaps usually contain re resin ai a and soda eoda they are good for was 11 ing white clothes not containing alkali in sufficient quantity to injure the fabric but bat they should not be ba used for colored clothes or for flan nels use a good white soap for this purpose all colored cottons and linens should be washed rinsed and dried as quickly as possible they should be dried in a well shaded place delicate lavendar and pale blue goods will retain their color it if dried rapidly before the tire fire in the house when a single hours bents exposure to the summers sun would bleach them old fashioned ideas about Star starching ebing dresses have undergone a change much less s arch its is used than formerly a great many dresses dressea are done up without any starch the rule mis is 13 simple it i the cotton has a dr dressing in ia it when purchased it should b be s of starched re od but not no stiffer than naw goods if tile the cotton is a soft finished cambric satine saline or gin biag 9 ham no starch should be used or only a little gum gain stable starch in th the a ging hams barns colored dresses which are combined with white or trimmed with white embroidery should be put in a final rinsing reusing water in which salt bait has been dissolved in about the proper tion of a large tablespoonful to a gallon of ginghams in in pat terns of black or dark colors co combined with whits white must sometimes be treat entreat oil ed in this thia way to prevent the colors run uina F cannels Flann sla shrink I 1 in n wash ing because of rapid changes in the temperature of the water used they rhonald be washed with white son adap P in water neur near the temperature of f t the be room this will be water that is 0 cold to the touch of the hand but not ice cold after washing the flannels carefully riuso them in several waters of the same saino temperature and blue them slightly do not hang bang them out doors in y freeze but dry them on the clothes horse before the tiro firo do not hang them in the hot situ aim in summer but in some cool place where they will dry rapidly I 1 talio take thorn them down before they are thoroughly dry and iron them thein flan M nolo which aro are all wool will not shrink it treated in this way no flannel should be washed or rinsed in this tha same water used in washing cotton gooda |