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suds, rinse quickly in tepid water, and dry at a moderate heat.
To restore velvet.
When velvet gets matted down, hold over a basin of hot water with the lining
next to the water; the fiber will soon rise and the velvet look as well as ever.
To wash lace curtains.
Shake the dust well out of the lace; then put the curtains in teped water in
which a little washing soda has been dissolved, and wash at once carefully with
the hands in several waters, or until perfectly clean; then rinse in water well
blued and also blue the boiled Kingsford's starch quite deeply, and squeeze, but
do not wring. Pin some sheets down to the carpet in an unoccupied airy room,
then pin on the curtains stretched to the same size they were before washing.
Silver polish for shirts.
Take an ounce each of isinglass and pulverized borax, one teaspoon white glue
and two teaspoons of the white of an
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