NOTHING BETTER THAN BRAN.
It takes a few bright, sunny days to show up the grubbiness of covers and curtains, and make the call for laundering more insistent. Spring cleaning is in progress in most homes, but such things as cretonnes, chintzes, and art needlework have as a rule bright colours, and require special treatment. For washing such fabrics there is nothing better than bran. Use it in the proportion of half a pint of bran to two quarts of water. Put the . bran into a butter muslin bag, and be careful to allow plenty of room for swelling. Boil it in a clean saucepan, aluminium for preference, for -about three-quarters of an hour, when it is ready for use. As a rinsing as well as cleansing water is required after pouring off the first water, cover the bag again, and boil for a few minutes. With bran washing rinsing is everything. After using two bran waters rinse in tepid water. Unless the article is very dirty no soap is needed. If it is necessary use just a little soap jelly.. Bran, besides softening the water, also acts as a stiffening agent, and unless the article* is required to be very stiff.no starch need ,be used. Bran is ideal for washing tussore and coloured shantung/; . '.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)
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215NOTHING BETTER THAN BRAN. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)
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