The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-14
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

In cases where it is feared that soap may
change the color of an article, as, for
instance. scarlet hosiery or lilac print, if
the garment be not badly soiled, it may be
ceansed by washing, without soap, in
water in which pared potatoes have been
boiled This method will also prevent
colors from running in washing prints.
To prevent blue from running into
white ground, dissolve teaspoonful of
copperas in pailful of soft water, and
piece of lime the size of an acorn, and soak
the garments in this water two hours be-
fore washing.
To make linen beautifully white, prepare
the water for washing by putting into
every ten gallons of water large handful
of powdered borax. Or, boil with the
clothes one teaspoonful of spirits of tur-
pentine.
To remove tea stsins from white CLOTH
soak it in javelle water, which is made as
follows: Put pound of sal soda and
cents worth of chloride of lime into an
earthen vessel, pour over it two quarts of
soft water. stir well until the sal soda is
dissolved, and use the bath warm. This is
also effectual in case OF grass, tannin or
fruit stains.
A simpler way to remove grass stains is
to spread butter on them, and lay the
article in hot sunshine.
Fruit stains upon cloth or upon the
hands may be removed by rubbing with
the juice of ripe tomatoes. If applied i'm
mediately, powdered starch will also take
fruit stains out of table linen Left on the
spot for few hours, it absorbs every
trace of the stain.
For mildew stains, mix together soft
soap, laundry starch and half as much
salt, and the juice of lemon. Apply to
the widowed spots, and spread the gar
ment on the grass. Or, wet the linen,
rub into it white soap, then fnely-powdered
chalk; lay upon the grass and keep damp.
Mildew stains that have been long in linen
may be removed by rubbing yellow soap
on both sides, aftcrward laying on very
thick, starch wetted with cold water
Rub in well and expose to light and air.
There are several effectual methods of
removing grease from cloth. First, wet
with linen cloth dipped in chloroform.
Second. mix four tablespoonful of alco-
hol with one tablespoonful of salt; shake
together until the salt is dissolved, then
apply with sponge. Third, wet with
weak ammonia water; then lay thin white
blotting or tissue paper over it, and iron
lightly with an iron not too hot. Fourth,
apply mixture of equal parts of alcohol,
gin and aqua ammonia.
To make very stiff starch, add to each
cupful and half of cold, soapy water two
heaped teaspoonfuls of starch and one even
teaspoonful of powered boraX. Dissolve,
and wiring through it collars, cuffs, etc.,
having previously dried them. They will
be as stiff as pasteboard. Another way to
make starch very stiff is to use equal guam
titles of starch and EPSON salts, using only
half the usual quantity of the former.
For everything but laces starch may be
used cold: but cold starch will not stiffen
lace Laces should be cleansed by wind
ing them round and round long bottle
between two thicknesses of flannel and
boiling in water to which trife OF borax
has been added Then remove the outside
flannel, rinse the lace in two or three
waters, then dip in weak starch or gum
arabic water; all without removing the
lace from the bottle. Dried in this way it
is kept smooth, and it is not easily injured,
needing no ironing.
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