HOW TO WASH A WHITE MARABOUT BOA.
The beauty of white feathers depends on cleanliness, and white feather boas that are in constant use require frequent cleaning, since they lose their charm unless quite fresh-looking. .
To Wash a white marabout boa. make a lather with boiling water and good strong soap. When it has cooled, add a few drops of ammonia, then put tho boa into the solution and shake it about, but do nob rub or squeeze it. Kin so it in cold water with a little blue in it to preserve the colour, and hang the boa up to dry, shaking it freoiiently. Feathers "when Tret bear a very dilapidated apnearan.ee that gives little promise of future beauty, but if carefully washed they will appear like wow ap;ain.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12765, 17 June 1911, Page 11 (Supplement)
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130HOW TO WASH A WHITE MARABOUT BOA. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12765, 17 June 1911, Page 11 (Supplement)
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