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egg. Cook these ingredients well in two quarts of Kingsford's fine starch.
Starch bosoms in this, and dry. Before you iron, apply some of the polish to the
bosom, collars or cuffs with a cloth well dampened. Iron at once with a glossing
or polishing iron.
To enamel shirt bosoms.
Melt together with a gentle heat, one ounce white wax and two ounces spermaceti;
prepare in the usual way a sufficient quantity of Kingsford's starch for a dozen
bosoms, put into it a piece of this enamel the size of a hazel-nut, and in
proportion for a larger number. This will be found the very best kind of a
polish.
To clean white zephyr goods.
Rub in flour or magnesia, changing same as fast as it looks dirty. Shake off the
flour, and hang in the open air a short time.
To clean alpaca.
Sponge with strained coffee. Iron on the wrong side, having black cambric under
the goods.
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