CARE OF LINEN

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 108, 2 November 1929, Page 23

CARE OF LINEN

The careful housewife will at certain intervals ' during the year go through the contents of her linen cupboard. This time of the year is particularly suitable for this inspection, for the housewife now will be able to estimate just what she will need to. replace. Careful examination, too, will show, apart from necessary mending, that various discolorations, and probably a certain amount of mildew, on the linen will need to be attended to. Stained Table Napkins.—On table napkins stains will probably be found to have been fruit. If these had been treated immediately, well and good; but if they had been sent to the laundry without having had, the stains removed the following remedy will be found effective: Hub the stained part i on each side with yellow soap. Then ' lay on it a mixture of cold water starch made very thick. Rub this well in and | expose tlie linen to sun and air till the stain comes out. If not removed in three days or so, repeat the process. Wine stains may also be treated in this way. Iron Mould.—The most disfiguring marks on white linen are, perhaps, those of iron mould. To remove those' wet the linen and then put on the stain a little—a very little—essential salts of lemon. If the linen under treatment becomes dry, wet it and renew the process. Much of the preparation sold un- i der the nanre of salt of lemon is harmful. It ia necessary, therefore, to dip the linen in a good deal of water and to rinse it well in cold water after treatment, or it will be worn into holes by the acia. • Mildew Marks.—To remove mildew marks'from linen, mix soft soap with powdered starch—two parts soft soap to one part powdered-starch—add one] part salt and the "juice of a lemon. Lay this mixture on the mildew spots with a painter's brush and leave the linen outdoors,. Say and night, till the discateraikm yanisnes, "I