The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-16
HOW TO "Do UP" A SHIRT.
Much Depends or the Care at the Clothes
Iine-Minute Directions.

Much Depends on the Care at the Clothes
hne-Minute Directions.
Most men front fortune with much
better grace full panoplied in stiff and
shining linen, without spot or blemish,
than when smeary, crunnpled breast
plate procIaims aloud the incompetence
of the home laundry.
HOW TO WASH SEARCHED CLOTHES.
Shirts, cuffs, collars-anything, in fact,
that needs to be stiffened and polished
should be washed perfectly clean and al
lowed to dry thoroughly before they are
starched.
Let them soak before washing in blood
warm water long enough to thoroughly
soften the old starch. Take care not to
bend the stiff parts sharply back or
forth until gentle rubbing has made them
pliable. For stiff starched linen is almost
as frangible as cardboard, even when new
and sound of fibre. Especially is it so
with the fine qualities used Tor dress
shirts.
HOW TO HANG SEARCHED CLOTHES ON
THE LINE.
When shirts are ready for the line be
sure YOU hang them on it properly-that
is, with the shoulders lightly laid over
IT, the bosom hanging smooth and
straight between.
II q shirt bosom dries dragging slant
wise, the several thicknesses pulling
apart. no after effort will achieve quite
the proper smoothness and solidity.
With cuffs and collars it is much the
same. Snap them out straight and hang
them so that warp and wool pull true.
Trifes JheSe-some, no doubt, feel in
clined to say. They are such tribes as
make the difference between good work
and bad.
BEST STARCH FOR SHIRTS.
To make starch for shirts mix smooth
two tablepoonfuls of dry starch with q
little cold water, and stir it into quart
Of clear water boiling in an earthen or g.
black tin saucepan. Let 1t boil for one
minute. stirring all the time. Then add
bit Of white wax the size of a nutmeg,
one teaspoonful of fine salt, and two Ia
blespoonfuls of clear, thick gum water.
To make this gum water choose the best
white gum arabic, throwing out all the
colored bits. Pour a pint of boiling
water upon an ounce of the dry Jumps and
let it stand day and night; then pour
carefully away from the sediment and
bottle it for Use.
Cook the starch one minute longer,
taking care not to scorch it.
It should not be free Of Jumps. Strain
II through thin cloth and then stir in as
much bluing as you like.
JUST HOW TO STARCH A SHIRT BOSOM.
Now take a shirt, fold the bosom length
wise along the middle line, dip it into the
starch and rub and knead it with both
hands until you are certain the stiffening
has penetrated ali the fibres. Wiring very
dry and hang on the line with the same
care as at first.
After it is in place look the bosom care
fully over. If there is anywhere a drop
or smear of oozing starch wipe it of with
a soft damp cloth. See to it that there are
no air bubbles betwixt the plies of linen
and backing.
Treat collars and cuffs the same wav.
taking especial pains to pull them in
shape on the line.
JUST HOW TO IRON.
For ironing you need a bosom board
smoothly covered with double flannel.
some good steel faced irons, a POLISHING
iron. bit of white wax tied up in clean
cloth, wooden tray of fine salt and a
bowl of very weak raw starch.
First fold the shirt lengthWise down The
middle OF the back and iron the BODY
smooth. leaving the bosom untouched.
THE shirt has of course been sprink,ed
down long enough to be damp through
and through. When the body is finished
fold sleeve along the sloped seam: Law if
flat and iron it. first through the middle.
then holding the cuff or the shoulder in
the left hand to keep it taut; with the