The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-10-06
WHEN PUTTING AWAY
SUMMER CLOTHES
Every Garment Should Be FEeed of
Dust and Spots Should Be
Removed.

To properly put away the summer
wardrobe is not merely a matter of pIac-
ing the various garments and accessories
In extra closets and trunks. Every gar
ment should first be carefully examined
and any spots upon them should be re-
moved, IL 1t is humanity possible to dc
So Since the stain IL allowed to sink
in for half a year may never come out
at all and sometimes 1t decays the fabric.
An ordinary grease spot may usually be
removed from a colored Bingham, linen
or muslin frock or blouse, by wetting
the place with fresh milk, covering ii
with common salt, letting ii stand for
several hours and then rinsing the gar
ment in several waters
A black oil spot such as is often made
by coming into contact with a motor S
mechanism, must be taken out with a
smearing Of butter. Chemists can usu-
ally furnish an eradicator which will van
quish ink spots without damaging the
material OF course, all launderable gar
ments are put away clean, but without
starch and rough-dried. Warm corn
meal will take ordinary dust spots from
white serge and on no account should a
summer garment of that material be
permanently laid away in soiled state
as, after lying for few months, the
Crime works into the weave 50 deeply
that 1t is almost impossible to get 1t out.
Wrap in Tissue Taper.
Lest a summer dancing frock in white
chiffon or China silk become yellowed
1t should be wrapped in white tissue
paper and then laid away in a capacious
box lined with blue paper and holding
several cakes of fine white wax which
will get yellow instead of the dress.
An expensive Manila braid or Panama
outing hat should be most carefully look
ed after as such headgear is perennially
fashionable and easily blocked in accOr-
dance with the current shapes. II not
badly enough soiled TO be sent to a pro-
fessional cleaner. these finely woven hats
should be literally sprinkled with flour
and rubbed with an old piece Of soft
linen the amateur cleaner being certain
10 shake OF all the flour before pinning
Cheesecloth about the hat and placing
1t IN an individual box.
White shoes OF every sort should be
thoroughly cleaned and placed over
trees" before going into their particular
boxes or bags but especially care should
be given to kid boots. particularly any
that may have become stin by being eX-
posed to dampness and then hastily
dried. These should first be made soft
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vaseline, letting IL remain on for an hour
or so and then taking it off with dry,
soft cloth. Leather mountain boots.
which are often the most costly type of
footwear in a girls summer outfit, will
become dry and cracked unless thor
ouChly softened with castor oil And
no matter how many sizes too large they
may originally have been, their owner
would best keep them on trees" all win
ter If she would wear them comfOrta bly,
during the following summer.
The girl who wishes 10 preserve her
warm weather wardrobe either for the
purpose of again wearing it herself or
for the pleasure Of bestowing it upon
some less fortunately situated friend,
will never put away any garment the
moment after she takes it of, lest it re-
tain an Udor Of peTspiration. Nor will
such a Eirl permit anything to be per
mauently put away until it has been
thoroughly aired in the sun and freed
OF every atom Of dust.