boil; when it begins to boil, stirin a pint measure level full of common salt, stirring it all the time until the salt is dissolved, then set to cool. Next day, cut out the soap in squares, scrape off the soft, dark part, that adheres to the lower side of the cakes, pour out the lye, and wash the ket- tle; place the soap, cut in thin slices in the kettle, with more weak lye. _ If the lye is strong add rain-water✪ Harp Soap, pint for pint; letit boil until the soap is dissolved. While boiling, again stir in a pint measure level full of salt, stirring it some as before, and set to cool., When perfectly hard, cut it in cakes the size you wish, scraping off the soft lye part that adheres to the lower side, and lay on boards, top side down in the sun, turning it each day until sufficiently dry. Or, if, you wish to make a twelve or foure THE LAUNDRY. _. teen gallon kettle of soft soap into hard,.three quarts of salt, stirred in each time, will be sufficient. But as soap differs in strength, the quantity of salt must also differ. The stronger the soap the more salt is required. A good general rule is our old grandmother’s: ‘‘ When the soap is boiling, stir in salt until it curdles and becomes whitish in color.’’ It can be tested by placing some in a shallow pan to cool, as it cools in a few minutes suffi- ciently to know if enough salt is in. To Breacw Musuin.—For thirty yards of muslin, take one pound of chlo- | ride of lime, dissolve in two quarts rain-water✪ Bleaching Muslin; let cloth soak over night in warm rain-water, or long enough to be thoroughly wet; wring out cloth and put in another tub of warm rain-water in which the chloride of lime solution has been poured. Let it remain for about twenty minutes, lifting up the cloth and airing every few minutes, and rinse in clear rain-water. This will not injure the cloth in the least, and is much less troublesome than bleaching on the grass. Or, scaldin suds and lay them on the clean grass all night, or if this can not be done, bring in and place ina tub of clean soft water. In the morning scald again and put out as before. It will take from one to two weeks to bleach white. May be bleached in winter by placing on the snow. May is the best month for bleaching. To whiten yellow linens or muslins, soak over-night, or longer, in buttermilk; rinse thoroughly and wash the same as Other clothes. This will also answer for light calicoes, percales, lawns, etc., that will not fade. Some use sour milk when not able to pro- cure buttermilk. To whiten yellow laces, old collars, etc., put in a glass bottle or jar in a strong suds, let stand in sun for seven days, shaking oc- casionally. To Wash Lack Curtains.—Shake the dust well out of the lace, put in tepid water, in which a little soda has been dissolved, and wech at once care fully with the hands in several waters, or until perfecuy clean; rinse in- water well blued, also blue the boiled starch quite deeply and squeeze, but do not wring. Pin some sheets down to the carpet in a vacant, airy room, then pin on the curtains stretched to exactly the size they were before being wet. Ina few hours they will be dry and ready to put up. The whole pro- cess of washing and pinning down should occupy as little time as possible, as lace will shrink more than any other cotton goods when long wet. Above all, it should not be allowed to ‘‘soak’’ from the mistaken idea that it washes more easily, nor should it ever be ironed. Another way is to fasten them in a pair of frames, which every housekeeper should have, made very like the old-fashioned quilting-frames, thickly studded along the inside with the smallest size of galvanized tenter hooks, in which to fasten the lace, and hay. ing holes and wooden pins with which to vary the length and breadth to suit, the different sizes of curtains.

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boil; when it begins to boil, stirin a pint measure level full of common salt, stirring it all the time until the salt is dissolved, then set to cool. Next day, cut out the soap in squares, scrape off the soft, dark part, that adheres to the lower side of the cakes, pour out the lye, and wash the ket- tle; place the soap, cut in thin slices in the kettle, with more weak lye. _ If the lye is strong add rain-water, pint for pint; letit boil until the soap is dissolved. While boiling, again stir in a pint measure level full of salt, stirring it some as before, and set to cool., When perfectly hard, cut it in cakes the size you wish, scraping off the soft lye part that adheres to the lower side, and lay on boards, top side down in the sun, turning it each day until sufficiently dry. Or, if, you wish to make a twelve or foure THE LAUNDRY. _. teen gallon kettle of soft soap into hard,.three quarts of salt, stirred in each time, will be sufficient. But as soap differs in strength, the quantity of salt must also differ. The stronger the soap the more salt is required. A good general rule is our old grandmother’s: ‘‘ When the soap is boiling, stir in salt until it curdles and becomes whitish in color.’’ It can be tested by placing some in a shallow pan to cool, as it cools in a few minutes suffi- ciently to know if enough salt is in. To Breacw Musuin.—For thirty yards of muslin, take one pound of chlo- | ride of lime, dissolve in two quarts rain-water; let cloth soak over night in warm rain-water, or long enough to be thoroughly wet; wring out cloth and put in another tub of warm rain-water in which the chloride of lime solution has been poured. Let it remain for about twenty minutes, lifting up the cloth and airing every few minutes, and rinse in clear rain-water. This will not injure the cloth in the least, and is much less troublesome than bleaching on the grass. Or, scaldin suds and lay them on the clean grass all night, or if this can not be done, bring in and place ina tub of clean soft water. In the morning scald again and put out as before. It will take from one to two weeks to bleach white. May be bleached in winter by placing on the snow. May is the best month for bleaching. To whiten yellow linens or muslins, soak over-night, or longer, in buttermilk; rinse thoroughly and wash the same as Other clothes. This will also answer for light calicoes, percales, lawns, etc., that will not fade. Some use sour milk when not able to pro- cure buttermilk. To whiten yellow laces, old collars, etc., put in a glass bottle or jar in a strong suds, let stand in sun for seven days, shaking oc- casionally. To Wash Lack Curtains.—Shake the dust well out of the lace, put in tepid water, in which a little soda has been dissolved, and wech at once care fully with the hands in several waters, or until perfecuy clean; rinse in- water well blued, also blue the boiled starch quite deeply and squeeze, but do not wring. Pin some sheets down to the carpet in a vacant, airy room, then pin on the curtains stretched to exactly the size they were before being wet. Ina few hours they will be dry and ready to put up. The whole pro- cess of washing and pinning down should occupy as little time as possible, as lace will shrink more than any other cotton goods when long wet. Above all, it should not be allowed to ‘‘soak’’ from the mistaken idea that it washes more easily, nor should it ever be ironed. Another way is to fasten them in a pair of frames, which every housekeeper should have, made very like the old-fashioned quilting-frames, thickly studded along the inside with the smallest size of galvanized tenter hooks, in which to fasten the lace, and hay. ing holes and wooden pins with which to vary the length and breadth to suit, the different sizes of curtains.

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