The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-16
WASHING BLANKETS.
How to Iron Wool Underwear for sensi-
tive Skins.

How to IRON Wool Underwear for Sensi-
tive Skins.
To launder woollen fabrics properly re-
Quires liberal education in the virtues
of omission.
Whatever the qilality and texture of
them, the aim is to have them come out
without shrinking or fulling, with no
harshness to the touch, with only the
faint odor of thoroughly clean wool;
and of exactly the tint that they knew in
their first estate. With white stuffs this
last-named perfection is not always
possible, as long usage invaria
bly, brings to them yellow tinge, more
or less pronounced, but wholly different
10 the griny dinginess resultant from bad
washing.
TOUR CARDINAL RULES.
Never let soap touch wooden textile.
This is the first commandment.
The second is, use none but borax soap
to make the suds.
The third is to have blood warm water
neither hot nor cold.
The last and greatest of all, not to let
the garments suffer change Of tempera
ture while wet, as from that springs the
harsh thickening so disagreeable and so
destructive.
DRY BLANKETS IN HOT SUNSHINE.
Wash your blankets, if possible, al
ways upon a clear summer day, and 90
not begin until the sun shines hot. The
first thing is to dissolve half pound of
pure powdered borax in about Eve gal
Ions of water, so warm that you can just
. bear your hands in it. Put in a blanket
at a time and wash quickly, LAYING it back
and forth and rub only especially dirty
Iri.7 lirrl,& lx-o nd oh,
a lively suds OF the same heat as the borax
water.
To insure that the suds shall hold no bit
Of soap, first dissolve a bar OF the best
borax soap in boiling water, and use
enough of tine solution to make white
foam in your tub.
Wash through the suds as rapidly as
possible, wiring well, then rinSe in clear
water also blood warm. After that put
it into blueing water-be sure it is pure
indigo-which must be of the same tenn
perature as the rest.
BLANKETS ON THE LINE.
Now have your line stretched east and
west, so as to get full sunshine upon the
drying surface. Have it also swung as
high as you can conveniently reach.
Throw bare edge of the blanket over,
pin It taut and smooth, taking particular
pains to have it hang square and level.
Properly in place, almost the whole
breadth of it will hang single, thus
insuring the rapid drying that is so
essential for anything wooden. In an
hour, il the SUI shines hot and the bian-
let has been properly wrung, it will be
dry enough to fold for ironing.
HOW TO IRON BLANKETS.
In ironing a blanket be as careful to
keep the fold true as you were in hanging
out. Use heavy, very smooth irons, not
too hot, and go over the surface with
them at least three times, but do not iron
except on one side.
WASHING BLANKETS IN WINTER.
Very often the stress of affairs makes
blanket washing necessary in winter
weather.
In that case it is better to wash and
rinse IL cold water, as it is the change
Of temperature that contracts the
FIBRE After washing, hang out single
and allow TO freeze dry. It may take
several days, but is lar better than
any sort Of house or closet drying. If
there is need Of haste, though, set a fold
ingcIcthes horse SC as to inclose the range
or laundry fire, spread the blanket single
upon it, and dry, watching continually
so as not TO let il scorch.
Two things most religiously avoid.
One Is leaving blankets in soak; the
other, letting them come in contact with
boiling water. AS to which is the worse
it is har5 to say, az both are simply
ruinous to any pure wooden fabric. Then
comes equally shrinkage, thickeninp.
roughness, Ill swells and discoloration.