WHEN WASHING BED LINEN.
Sheets and pillow-Cases can be kept a better colour if a (little boiling-water starch is added to the blueing water. The starch water improves the appearance of both cotton, and linen by giving a smoother and more glossy surface, which does not soil so readily. Moreover, dirt is more readily removed from slightly starched fabrics" than from unstarched.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 6 (Supplement)
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62WHEN WASHING BED LINEN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 6 (Supplement)
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