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as it is the potash, resin, and soda in cheap common soaps which hardens and
colors animal fiber yellow.
To clean silk and thread gloves.
Place them on the hands, and wash with borax water or white castile suds, same
as if washing the hands. Rinse under a stream of clear water, and dry with a
towel, keeping the gloves on until half dried. Then remove carefully, fold so
they will look as nearly as they were as it is possible, and lay between clean
towels under a weight.
For washing red linen table.
Use tepid water, with a little of Smith's powdered borax, which sets the color;
wash the linen separately and quickly, using but little soap. Rinse in tepid
water, containing a little boiled starch; hang to dry in the shade, and iron
when almost dry.
To wash flannels so they wont shrink.
To prevent shrinking, it is well to add a little ammonia to your suds, wash
rapidly in tepid
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