The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-14
X VIEWS OF WOMEN FOR W0ME AND THE HOME x
Washing Your Fmenes
BY MAUD NEWTON.

r you will only launder your delicate lingerie waists Yourself instead of put
ting them with other clothes. to be rubbed to pieces 20 will be repaid by
= their wearing three or four times as long .<
FRS, carefully mend any little rip or tear in the waist, then wash in warm
aer with pure White SOAP rubbing as little and as carefully as possible. You
Fn find that's squeezing will take most of the dirt out Rinse the soap out
thoroughly, putting a ew drops of buing Tin the last water. Make a very thin.
arch by putting on heaping tablespoonful of elastic starch in aahat earthen-
ware crock. adding cold water to make a paste; then tmn on slowly one quart
5pf boiling water stirring all the time, and add a.blt of blung Dip the waist
4 in this, wiring out and, if white, hang in the sunshine to dry and whten; if
colmed. dry indoors
Half an hour before ironing. sprinkle, and roll in a towel Be sure your
irons are clean, and rub a little paramn over each one, and try IN paper before
using. e
Remember that pongee should always be ironed when 1t is perfectly dry, and
with a warm, lot hot iron.
The writer in The womans Home Companion adds. >
Iron the sleeves first, and by using a rather small iron you will find it pos
she to iron then without creasing, even If you 10 not possess a seeve-b board
Then iron the body OF. the waist, doing the tucks n plain part first oil the
right side, leaving the embroidery and lace, which should be ironed on the
wrong side for the las.
To iron the tucks nicely, start at the shoulder. holding the waist at the bot
tom OF the tucks firmly with the left hand to straighten them, and be very care
Jul lot to use too lot a iron.
The null ties and jabots look much softer and pptter if n 10 starch is used
but the little neck things that are intended to hang straight can have just a bit
of thin boiled starchn them
The plated .jabots should have h plats firmly basted into place with fine
stitches before being washed, and it is better to base just at the bottom edge
so the lines Oft the thread wont show when it is ironed. When ironing, begin at
the bottom pulling it gently from the top. The paits adjust themselves.
Did you evert try to launder you own embroidered collars? 1t is a very
simple thing to do and takes but a few minutes. Make a little cold starchb by
adding n an one-half tabespoonfms offs starch o a pint of cold water,a and
add a drop of blung. After washing and rinsng you collars, rb them in the
ironing board then cove with a cloth. and iron Oh the wrong side until nearly
dry, then without thu cloth until perfectly dry, finishing the buttonhoe part IN
the right side to curveH it. Turn over the embroidered part last
Just 10Y everyone is looking wei her boxes of old embroideres an laees
for the beautifully embroidered round collars of her randmothers day. OF
courset they are yenowed from age and diyuse and the. bestw way to whihn them
is 10 put them in cold soapy waterw with just he least bit Of bimng In IT," Let
them come to bnr rinse tut the soap, then dip in moreb huing-water and spread
m a towel to dry in the sunshine. Sometimes it is necessary to repeat the
process without the soap. Do not wiring very dry, as they bleach while the sui
is driving them. II the things are very delicate, it is well to bastet them firmly
on a piece II cotton cloth before washing, as the old .embrohertes tear very
easily and must be handled with great care. If.any stiffness is desired, they
shout be- dipped in thin boiled starch after the lastr nsing. dried. then damp
ened before ironing. Lay right side down n the ronns-pad inc smooth into
shape with our hand. Then cover with a cloth and iron until dry.