The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-05-23
GIRLS IN THE KITCHEN.
B'w two Brnvc Little Ones Tried 20 Help
Their Mother,

Minnie writes: 81 am sixteen and
my sister is fourteen. Our mother is not
strong, and we want to know Just how TO
go to work to do the washing some time
when she is away. She always washes
and has us do the housework, and that
IL why we don't know exactly how to
wash. But if we did it once nicely, she
would let us do it again, and then she
wouldn't got 80 very tired"
Minnie shows the right spirit, and we
gladly give her minute directions how to
proceed, says the Now York tribune.
First gather all the clothes together and.
while the water is heating, sort them
over. Put all the handkerchiefs into n
pail Of water and all blood stains into
clear cold water, as soap sets them. Put
the finest white clothes in pile by
themselves, the commoner clothes into q
pile by themselves and the calicoes,
hannels and stockings likewise. You
can wash the white flannels first. if you
choose, and the water in which they are
washed will do to soak the stockings in
till you get ready to wash them. Flanncls
should be put into very hot soap suls
and washed, then put into scnlding hot
water, with little blueing IN it, and
when wrung from that they are hung on
the line to dry. The water in which they
are scaldcd will do for the first water to
wash the fine cotton clothes in. Wash
the handkcrchieis from the clear water
and put them in soap stids, put in also
the collars, cuffs, shirts and all the
whitcst Of the clothes. Wash them ont
carefully and put them into the boiler to
scald. While they are scalding, wash
out the next boilcrful, and so on till NIL
the clothes have been rubbed out AS
fast rs the clothes nre scalded remove
them from the boiler and put in other,
adding clean water and soap MS needed,
till all are scaldcd. They should not re-
main in the boiler long, on the dirt will
be set in them and they will he dingy.
DO not use water very much soiled TO
wash in, or your clothes will not he clear.
Keep the different sortings Of clothes
separate all the way through, so the
white clothes will not be made dingy by
being mixed with those less white. From
the boiling suds put the clothes into
clear warm water and wash out all the
suds, then put them into clear rinsing
water, and then through IL blued water.
Have the clothes that need starching
separated from the others and make your
starch, put them through it and hang
them out TO dry. Be careful about
making 4 slop while you are washing.
| A careful woman can wash Oh n carpet
and not soil it in the least. If you have
only tubs and a washboard with wringcr
YOU can do the work well. Wash oil the
house cloths in your last suds and have
them fresh and clean. BE sure ami tur
the stockings aud wash them thorough,
on both sides, and turn such of the whit,
clothes as need it to he made perfect,
clean. II is well TO have a small bag
all old pillow-case will do, to put tn,
collars AM small things in when the.
are boiled, so they won't get scatterc,
and torn, and so that they will he sur
TO he rinsed through the clearest water
When YOU can organize and conduct
washing campaign in n regular md sue
cessful manner, You have become &c
complished in one very important direc
ton. In hanging out your clothes pm
all the sheets together, the pillow slips
the shirts, night wraps, and so of tn
rest. When they are dry fold the sheet
nicely as you take them from the line
lay the pillow slips one upon another
the towels likewise. the starched clothc
all by themselves, and 10 of the rest
This will make sprinkling the clothes fC
ironing nm easy matter Take in yor
line and put your clothespins careful
in place. II your stockings are sti
when they arc dry, il is II sign they NJ
not washed clean. Stockings and iannc
can he folded so smoothly when take
from the ine as not TO need ironing.