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Show HOW TO SET COLORS SOME salt Is especially effective In settling browns, blacks, reds and pinks, being used In proportion of two cuptuls of tsalt to one gallon of water. For blues, use vinegar In the proportion of half a cup of vinegar to one gallon water, for lavenders, sugar of lead is more often used, one tablespoonful of sugar of lead to one gallon of water. Sugar of lead Is a poison and should be handled with great care; throw out the solution as soon as used, wash tho hands carefully. Colored clothes should never be soaked. They should never bo sprinkled, sprin-kled, rolled for Ironing and put in tho basket with white clothes, for In spite of "setting" the color may be a bit contagious. Soap should never be rubbed directly direct-ly on any colored piece. Mako a solution solu-tion of the proportion of one cako of pure white soap to two quarts of water, wa-ter, then to the warm water in which the clothes aro to be washed add enough of the solution to make a thick suds Merer boil colored clothes, and If PQaalhla wah oun niaca at a Lima, |