The home on the farm and its improvement by Thompson Ralph Seymour

Author:Thompson, Ralph Seymour. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Home economics
Publisher: Springfield, Ohio, Pub. by the Farmers' advance
Published: 1883-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

soused up and down in the water, shaken out and rubbed a litt e, so that the clear water touches every part of tlie cloth, then wring dry from each tub. In no other way can the soap be all washed out, and if not all out, the clothes will become yellow after a few washings, and no amount of scrubbing will make them white. Before putting them on tlie line, starch the collars, shirt bosoms, and whatever needs starching. To make the starch, dissolve from a half to a teacupful of starch (according to the size of the washing) in a little cold water, then pour over it boiling water until it is well scalded, and dip the clothes in it while it is hot as the hands can bear. Many dissolve a lump of tallow in it, or stir in a spoonful of kerosene. Rub the starcli in thoroughly while hot.

Now come the colored clothes, which are really the horror of washing day. The white clothes can be soaked, boiled, or bleached, but nothing of the kind will do for colored clothes, and yet they show good washing as much as the white. Soap and water and elbow grease are all that can be put upon them. In the first place do not wet them at all until the white clothes are all out, for the longer they are in the suds the more they will fade, and by all means have a pounding-barrel to put them in first. After pounding them well in plenty of water, rub them clean and rinse them well in two waters, starch and dry them in the shade. If there are any that are inclined to fade, or colors run, put a handful of salt in the last rinsing water, or if you have hard water rinse in that.

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