NOTHING BETTER THAN BRAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20420, 23 November 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)

NOTHING BETTER THAN BRAN.

It takes a few blight sunny days to up the grubbiness of covers and curtains, and make the call for laundering more insistent. Spring cleaning is in progress in most homes, hut such things as cretonnes chintzes and art needlework have as a rule bright colours, and require special treatment. tor washing such fabrics there is, nothing better than bran. "Use it in the proportion of half a pint of bran to two quarts' of water. T'ut the bran into a butter-muslin hag, and be careful to allow plenty of room for swelling. Boil it in a clean saucepan, aluminium for preference, for about three-quarters of an hour, 'when it is ready for use. As a rinsing as well as cleansing water is required after pouring off the first water, cover the bag again, and boil for a few minutes. With bran washing rinsing is everything. After using two bran waters rinse in tepid water. Unless the article is very dirty no soap is needed. If it is necessary use just a little soap jelly. Bran, besides softening the water, also arts as a stiffening agent, and unless the nrticle is required to ho very stiff no March need bo used. Bran is ideal for ■washing tussore, and coloured shantung.