WASHING HINTS.
•A" writer in an Australian paper gives the following laundry'advice:— To Boil. Clothes: Fill the copper moderately with the white clothes the night before. Then add 2 tablespoons of soap flakes or any washing powder, 1 tablespoon of borax, Jib of BOap.cut thinly! Fill the copper with cold water. In the morning, boil slowly for one hour. Kinse in two waters,'.; then blue the the Clothes: The modern housewife has adopted the principle of pure white, instead of applymg.the blue bag 'with a heavy hand. Blue water sbould be a very pale colour. The blue should be perfectly and evenly, dissolved, and applied only after th* clothes have been thoroughly rinsed. The use of too much blue in the old-fashioned way is responsible for turning the clothes an ugly shade of grey while in their middleage.'- ■•'••'; •' ' ~,"■.-,
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 267, 10 November 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)
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