Try These Useful Hints

Chronicle (Levin), 12 August 1948, Page 8

Try These Useful Hints

Before dyeing, material should be ' thoroughly washed with soap and water, and rinsed, and all grease ispots removed. Galvanised dishes I should not be used. A vessel larae in comparison to what is bein'g co.oured, is required, so that it will contain a genercus amount of dye • water and permit the material to be constantly stirred. Of course, the dye must be thoroughly dissolved before the fabric is immersed. _ When dyeing garments at h'ome add a handful of salt to the dye water to set the colour. When dyeing anything blaok, use one packet of navy-blue to every ' two of black dye. This gives a better black than when a black dye alone is used. Cold Water: Qold water can do no harm to any material that is washab.le. It . will often remove stains better than any other agent, and shoyld be given the first chance unless in a case whefe it is known that it has no power iri the stain. It should always be used for blood stains, meat juice, wRite of egg or other albuminous substances. Oil Stain: If a drop of oil gets on white. cloth, talcum powder sprinkled on it liberally will absorb the oil and leave no spot. Paint on Clothes: Equal parts of ammonia and spirits bf turpentine will take paint out of clothing, no matter how dry or hard the paint hay be. Saturate the shot two or three times, then wash out in soap suds. •