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Evening Star, Issue 20022, 13 November 1928, Page 14

32 ■Bsw womens should St Washed. Whisk two tables poonfuis of Lux into a thick lather in half a bowlful of very hot water. Add cold water until suds are lukewarm, then put in garment. Dip it up and down, pressing suds repeatedly through soiled spots. Do Not Rub. If suds die down in washing, more dissolved Lux should be added to restore suds. Raise thoroughly in three hikewsmt waters. Do Not Wring. For coloured woollens make suds and rinsing waters almost cool. Wash very quickly to keep colours from running. Woollens should/ ttsveff U dried k the sun., The care of Woollen FEW women like to trust their blanket*, their delicately coloured woollens and undcr-garmcnta—still less their children’s woollies —to a laundry. Yet winter time necessitates the wearing of many woollen garments which become only too quickly soiled, which must be cleaned often, but which, if proper care is not taken, soon Jose the softness and elasticity which renders wool the most cosy and warmthgiving of materials. Woollen garment® require individual attention for reasons of hygiene and because wool is more sensitive than other fabrics. It is composed of tiny over-lapping scales which when displaced become rough and scratchy, rendering the material irritating to the touch and unhealthy to wear, because the porous quality which is one of its advantages is thus destroyed. Rubbing with hard soaps damages the fragile tissues and makes wool harsh and matted. Ordinary soaps and soap flakes also contain alkali, which not only discolours wool but causes it to shrink. Blankets washed with hard soap have been known to shrink a® much as eighteen inches 1 The housewife who uses Lux avoids these evils. Lux is finer than soap, its flakes melt more easily and contain no alkali to endanger the softness or wear the fragile tissues of wool. To launder in the Lux way is to keep youf woollens a good colour, in good shape and with their fragile fibre unimpaired. Lever Brothers (Jtew Zealand) LttS o3^ c 9 * m A New Suit for Christmas! Jes, you want one, and you have kept off placing your order rifl |lie last minute. DO IT NOW! 'And be assured of getting satisfaction by placing yoUr order wSK John MgCrae, MERCHANT TAILOR, 23 DOWLING STREET. Phone 13-530,