LAUNDERING COLLARS AND CUFFS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 276, 20 November 1926, Page 26

LAUNDERING COLLARS AND CUFFS.

Cold starch unboiled is best for gentlemen's collars and cuffs; to every $pt of water use 1 tablespoon best starch, % teaspoon borax, and i teaspoon turpentine. Mix the starch with a little water to remove lymps, then add remainder of water gradually, and, when quite clear, the borax dissolved in a very little boiling water and left to cool. Lastly, add the turpentine, which helps to give a gloss to the linen, but may be omitted if more convenient. The collars must be quite dry when put in the starch, and when wrung out should be laid singly on a clean cloth, afterwards rolled °up tightly in it till required for ironing, which should be in about J hour or If hour. To iron, first rub the"collars over with a damp piece of flannel to remove any speck there may bo, then, with an ordinary hot iron, iron lightly o n both sides till nearly dry, finishing ~oft with a polishing iron—almost a necessity if the collars are desired glossy as when new. A polishing iron can be obtained from any ironmonger, and is not expensive.