The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-12
Rernrdlna WashInR.

\ Among the trials and tribulatiOns of domes-
! tic life. few are less bearable than those which
pertain to the laundry. For the utter IN
! efficiency of Biddy as cook is iully equalleu
by the total incapacity of Biddy as washer
woman, and both are far exceeded by her
| snperlative unsklfuluess in ironing. Thus
| Materfamilias is brought to shame, and Pater-
! familias exhibits wrath over clothing that Is
only half-washed, doubly starched, and only
ironed when ironing is synonymous with
scorching. Perhaps a little light on domestic
duties OF this description may come to house
wives, young and old, from the perusal of the
following from the Montreal Witness
The evening previous to washing, all the
clothes should be gathered mp and assorted;
Woolens, colored clothes, unbIeached cottons,
and linens and fine clothes into their separate
bundles. Except woollens ana ColOred clothes
all other kinds should be put to soak over
night, the very dirty parts having soap rubbed
on them. ii you use washing tlutd, 1t is
usually mixed in the soaking water; II you use
no wash mixture, the next morning wiring out
the clothes, and proceed to wash them carefully
through two warm lathers; then boil them in
clean lather b1isBly, but not longer than half
hour. Wash them out OF boil, rinse through
two waters. The last rinsirg water should have
a delicate iinge oil blue, likewise a small quau-
tity OF starch Tor all cotGons and linens; reserve
those you wish stider for the last, and mix
more starch III the water. Shirt bo5oms and
collars, sklrts-in short, anything you Wish very
shh-should be dipped IN starch while dry.
Swiss and other thin muSlins and laCes are
dipped IN starch while dry, auu then clapped with
the hands in the right condition to iron. Cali
Goes, brilliants, and lawns of white grounds are
washed Ike any other white material, omltting
boiling, until the yellow tinge they acquire
makes IT absolutely necessary. UDbleached cot
tons and linens follow the white clothes through
the same waters; but must in no case be boiled
or washed with them, as they continually dis.
charge q portion OF their color and so discoIor
the white clothes. In directing the prepara-
tions Tor washing fluids, we give the process
employ ed with them; but coored clothes, in our
experience, can be washed in none OF them
without injury TO the color. CaliCOes colored
lawns, and colored coltons and linens generally
are washed through two suds and two rinsng
waters; starch being used in the last, as all
a little stlhened Many calcOes will spot If
soap is rubbed on them; they should be
washed in lather, simply. A spoonful of OK
gall 10 q gallon of water will set the colors OF
almost any goods soaked in ii previous to wash
ing. tea cup of lye in bucket of water will
improve the color of black goods. strong
clean tea of common hay will preserve the color
of those French linens so much used in summer
by both sexes If the water in which potatoes
are cooked is saved and boiled down it stitlens
black calicoes as well as starch, and saves them
from the dusty and smeared look they so often
have Vinegar in the riusing water, for pink or
an swers the same end Tor purples aud blue.
Colored and white fannels must be washed
separately; and by no means wash after cotton
or linen, as the lint from these goods adheres to
the flannel. There should be little blue in
the rinslng water for white flannels. Allow your
flannels to freeze after washing in winter; it
bleaches them.