LAUNDRY LORE.
When washing a white silk blouse or jumper to which you want to give a little stiffness, add a few lumps of sugar to the rinsing water, roll tightly in a clean towel and iron while still damp. If a, little salt is added to the blue water when clothes are being blued, it will help to distribute the colour evenly and prevent patches. A wringer should always he unscrewed after u&e, m order to take the weight oil the rollers. Two little wedges of wood can be placed between and so allow the air to pass through. Chocolate or cocoa stains can generally be removed from clothes if they are £rsit washed in cold water, then have plenty of boiling water poured over them Collars and cuffs'that have become worn Rt the edges can be improved by. being lightly rabbid with white wax alter' ironing wjtd finishing >n the ordinary wajfc
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19289, 30 March 1926, Page 7
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