Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-01-10
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.



Fruit stains or colored goods can
be removed before washing by just wet
ting the spot and holding it over a light
ed birthstone match. The gas from the
sulphur on the match is almost sure to
remove the stain.
In summer, if one has a nice grass
yard where the clothes can be exposed
10 pure air and clear sunshine, all white
clothes but the very dirty can be washed
and bleachcd without the trouble of
boiling. This saves time, fuel (and in
the city always and in the country some
times fuel is large item of expense),
and also some extra wringing. Wash
the articles carefully in good clean suds
and spread them at once out of the suds
on the green grass TO bleach. Leave
them an hour or so-until the colored
clothes, wooden and coarse articles are
washed, rinsed and hung out-then take
them up from the grass, pass them
through a tub of clean, hot, but not very
strong suds, and then through large
quantity of well blued rinsing water, and
hang up TO dry. This gives all white
clothes a nice clear color. II there is no
grass-plat this mode of bleaching can
not be carried out.
Many good housekeepers complain
that their clothes turn yellow in wash
ing, and they can not understand why
this should be. We think they will soon
find remedy if they will take the trou-
bic SO tar TO oversee the washing as to
be sure that the clothes are put on to
boil in cold water, instead of hot or even
boiling water, as servants are overload
of doing. The clothes, after wringing
from the first suds, must have little
soap rubbed on the worst stains or
soiled spots-enough to make a good
suds when they are put into the boiler
of cold water and placed over the fire.
Nothing turns clothes a bad color so
quickly as to put them into hot water,
as is too often done, and if they are al
lowed to boil long ii is very much worse.
From 20 to % minutes slow boiling is
quite long enough for the dirtiest arti-
cles. Sheets, pillow-cases, towels,
handkerchiefs, table-linen, etc, should
have very little boiling. Let them scald
for % minutes without at any time COM
ing 10 full boiling heat; and the color
will be much clearer and any streaks or
stains be much more readily taken out
If boiling is rejected for all but the
coarsest and dirtiest articles.
I'm washing merino, lambs wool
and silk under-clothes or silk handker-
chiefs none but the best and purest soap
should be used. The soap should be
well dissolved in hot water into which
the articles 10 be washed are put; but
only two or three at a time, keeping
fresh suds hot over the fire TO be added
when more clothes are put into the tub.
DO not rub them, but cleanse them by
drawing them through the hands-up
and down-in the suds. Rubbing
shrinks wooden and injuries the fabric of
both wooden and silk When they have
been thus drawn through the hands till
clean wiring as dry as possible, with the
hands, to remove all the soap: then
rinse in tub of hot water, which should
be ready to put the pieces in immedi-
ately on being wrung from the suds. II
shrinks and yellows them badly if left
cut of the water any time after being
wrung either from suds or rinsing water
As they are wrung out shake each piece
free and put at once into the rinsing-
water As fast As it can be done the
pieces should be rinsed, wrung out,
stretched into their proper shape, and
hung smoothly on the line where the
wind and sun can have full play over
them.
Be particular to remove all stains
from white goods before they are wet or
put into the wash. If there is ink on
any white article dip the spot in boiling
hot tallow before it has been wet; let ii
cool; then wash ont in hot soap-suds
and the ink will disappear. If any ar
ticle is iron-molded, prepare oxalic acid
and cream of tartar in the proportion
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