Mode. — Mix the above ingredients together; then lay each breadth of silk upon a clean kitchen table or dresser, and scrub it well on the soiled side with the mixture. Have ready three vessels of cold water; take each piece of silk at two corners, and dip it up and down in each vessel, but do not wring it; and take care that each breadth has one vessel of quite clean water for the last dip. Hang it up dripping for a minute or two, The Lady '8 Maid, then dab it in a cloth, and iron it quickly with a very hot iron. Cleaning Cream. One-half pound of white castile soap, one-half pound of lump ammonia, two ounces of spirits 254 The Care of the Clothes of wine, two ounces of ether, cut the soap up fine and dis- solve in one quart of hot water, then take off the fire and add four quarts of cold water✪ Cleaning Cream and the other ingredients. Bottle at once and cork tightly. This is for cleaning wearing apparel, taking out grease spots, etc. To Renovate Silk. Sponge faded silks with warm water and soap; then rub them with a dry cloth on a flat board ; afterward iron them on the inside with a smoothing iron Old black silks may be improved by sponging with spirits. In this case, the ironing may be done on the right side, thin paper being spread over to prevent glazing. To Renew Velvet. Hold the velvet, pile downward, over boiling water, in which two pennyworth of stone ammonia is dissolved, double the velvet (pile inward) and fold it lightly together. To Clean Feathers. Cover the feathers with a paste made of pipe clay and water, rubbing them one way only. When quite dry, shake off all the powder, and curl with a knife. Grebe feathers Feather Cleaning. may be washed with white soap in soft water. To Clean Cloth. You need dry fullers' earth moistened with lemon juice, and a small quantity of pulverized pearl- ash. Mix the fullers' earth and pearlash into balls with suffi- cient lemon juice to moisten. Scour the cloth with the balls. To Make Old Crape Look Nearly Equal to New. Place a little water in a tea kettle and let it boil until there is plenty of steam from the spout; then, holding the crape with both hands, pass it to and fro several times through the steam, and it will be clean and look nearly equal to new. The Care of the Clothes 255 Cleaning' Lace. To wash or clean fine linen or cotton lace, make a suds with warm water and some good white soap and add a few drops of ammonia or a little powdered borax. Put the lace in this and let stand for half an hour, then spat with the hand until the dirt is all removed. Be very careful not to rub as it destroys the texture. If very much soiled use two waters. When clean rinse twice, and in the last water put a little clear boiled starch, about a tablespoon- ful to two quarts of water✪ Cleaning Lace. Then squeeze dry. Cover a round glass bottle with clean white cloth and over this wind the lace, using small pins to keep points or scallops in position, set away and when thoroughly dry unwind, taking out the pins carefully. If these instructions have been care- fully followed, the lace will look as good as new.

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Mode. — Mix the above ingredients together; then lay each breadth of silk upon a clean kitchen table or dresser, and scrub it well on the soiled side with the mixture. Have ready three vessels of cold water; take each piece of silk at two corners, and dip it up and down in each vessel, but do not wring it; and take care that each breadth has one vessel of quite clean water for the last dip. Hang it up dripping for a minute or two, The Lady '8 Maid, then dab it in a cloth, and iron it quickly with a very hot iron. Cleaning Cream. One-half pound of white castile soap, one-half pound of lump ammonia, two ounces of spirits 254 The Care of the Clothes of wine, two ounces of ether, cut the soap up fine and dis- solve in one quart of hot water, then take off the fire and add four quarts of cold water and the other ingredients. Bottle at once and cork tightly. This is for cleaning wearing apparel, taking out grease spots, etc. To Renovate Silk. Sponge faded silks with warm water and soap; then rub them with a dry cloth on a flat board ; afterward iron them on the inside with a smoothing iron Old black silks may be improved by sponging with spirits. In this case, the ironing may be done on the right side, thin paper being spread over to prevent glazing. To Renew Velvet. Hold the velvet, pile downward, over boiling water, in which two pennyworth of stone ammonia is dissolved, double the velvet (pile inward) and fold it lightly together. To Clean Feathers. Cover the feathers with a paste made of pipe clay and water, rubbing them one way only. When quite dry, shake off all the powder, and curl with a knife. Grebe feathers Feather Cleaning. may be washed with white soap in soft water. To Clean Cloth. You need dry fullers' earth moistened with lemon juice, and a small quantity of pulverized pearl- ash. Mix the fullers' earth and pearlash into balls with suffi- cient lemon juice to moisten. Scour the cloth with the balls. To Make Old Crape Look Nearly Equal to New. Place a little water in a tea kettle and let it boil until there is plenty of steam from the spout; then, holding the crape with both hands, pass it to and fro several times through the steam, and it will be clean and look nearly equal to new. The Care of the Clothes 255 Cleaning' Lace. To wash or clean fine linen or cotton lace, make a suds with warm water and some good white soap and add a few drops of ammonia or a little powdered borax. Put the lace in this and let stand for half an hour, then spat with the hand until the dirt is all removed. Be very careful not to rub as it destroys the texture. If very much soiled use two waters. When clean rinse twice, and in the last water put a little clear boiled starch, about a tablespoon- ful to two quarts of water. Then squeeze dry. Cover a round glass bottle with clean white cloth and over this wind the lace, using small pins to keep points or scallops in position, set away and when thoroughly dry unwind, taking out the pins carefully. If these instructions have been care- fully followed, the lace will look as good as new.

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