STAINS ON LINEN BEDSPREAD
Bleaching powder or chloride of lime is always üßeful for bleaching linens.- T* prepare it for use stir one teaspoonfnl into half a pint of water in a glass or earthenware dish. Allow to settle « and: pour off the clear portion. Add a few drops of vinegar. Stretch the stained, portion of the linen bedspread over a* bowl of boiling water and apply bleaching solution to the stain with a^Jeaa.medicine dropper. When, the spot disappears transfer to a basinJof hot water and ammonia—one tablespoonful to a. quart of water—to check the action of the lime. Rinse in clear cold water,, wring and dry. You will find this method: quite satisfactory, A mincing machine, that has becomeblunt can be sharpened by several smalt! pieces of bathbrick through it. Before-;! using the,machine, pass some stale bread?,' through to remove any bathbrick particles that may be clinging to the bearings. . .
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Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 30, 18 December 1930, Page 10
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