RENOVATING BLACK GOODS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 2, 17 April 1880, Page 2 (Supplement)

RENOVATING BLACK GOODS.

The best way to cleanse black cashmere is to place the dress or goods in strong borax water, made lukewarm. Let it remain in soak all night, then tafce out and hang on a line to drip until nearly dry, when it may be pressed off. Do noi rinse or wring. Or 1 wash in hot cuds with a little .borax in the water ; rinse in bluing water— Tery blue— and iron while damp. It will look almost equal to new. „, To dean 'black ribbon: Take an old kid glove, no matter how 013, and boil it in a pint of water for a short time ; then let is cool until the leather con be taken in the hand without burning ; uae the glove wet with the water to sponge off the ribbon. If the ribbon is very dirty, dip it into water and draw it through the fingere a few times before sponging. Alter cleaning, lay a piece of paper over the ribbon and iron; cPaper is better than oloth. The ribbon will look ltke new. Ghalk'or magnesia rubbed on silk or ribbon that has been greaßed and held near the fire will absorb the greaie so that it may be brußhed off. The beat method of cleaning black silks : First the silk mußt be thoroughly brushed and wiped with a elofb, then laid flat on a smooth board or table and well sponged with hot oofiee, thoroutthly freed from sediment by being strained through muslin. The silk is sponged on the side intending to show, it is allowed to become partiallj dry, and then ironed on the wrong aide. The .coffee removes every partiole of grease, and restores the brillianoy of silk, without giving it either the shiny appearance or crackly and papery stiffness obtained by beer or any other liquid. The silk appears thickened by the process, and this good effect remains. To revive old crape . mourning-: Plac^a little water in a tea-kettle till there is steam from the spout ; then, holding the laoe in both hands pass it several times to and fro through the steam. Stains are removed from mourning dresses — bombasines, oloth. orape, etc— by rubbing them with a sponge dipped in a little ammonia — diluted, of course.

To wash velveteen : Wash in cold water and do not wring j but shake thoroughly, spread on the line as much as pos=iole ; when partially dry take down and shake again. To wash corsets : Take out the steel ; use hot wat*rs one tea spoonful of borax to. every pail of water ; place the corsets on the washboard and scrub well with a clean brush, using veiy .little soap ; do not boil the corsets, but it very yellow bleach in the sun ; rinse well ; rub in a little starch ; iron when quite damp.