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Show To Wash Cretonne Draperies. Boil one pound of rice in one gallon of water until rice is soft," then strain off one quart of the milky water and add a piece of gum arabic the size of an egg. Set this aside for starching. Take the remainder of the water and rice, add enough warm water to wash the curtains. Rub on a handful of the boiled rice and ,souse up and down many times, then rinse in clear water. Starch in the water as prepared above. Iron with a medium hot iron when partly dry. The cretonne will look like now. - |