HOW TO WASH BLOUSES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 298, 10 September 1908, Page 5

HOW TO WASH BLOUSES.

(Br an Expert.) COTTON BLOUSES—AII blouses should be soaked in cold water the night before washing them. Silk ones, if white, may be treated in tho same way, but if coloured, they may be placed in cold' water with enough salt to tasto the water, or a lump of alum (the sine of a walnut)' added to every two quarts of water. SILK BLOUSES.—Squeezo them from the soaking water and put into hot lathery water (just hot enough not to hurt tho hand), then rub carefully all over, giving an extra rub to the soiled parts. No soap must ever _bo rubbed upon any silk garment. For ironing, unroll the blouse, and first iron the sleeves. If thero is a cult of lace and silk, iron tho whole of the lace on the wrong side without touching the silk —a small iron should bo used —then 1 turn and iron silk smoothly. First iron the sloeves, and then tho collar and band, then the yoke (if there be one). Iron the fronts (left side first) holding the neck with the left hand and ironing upwards from tho waist to the neck. When done place tho hack upon tho board flat and iron from waist to yoke or neck, without leaving a singlo creaso; again place the blouse upon the board wrong side down and iron carefully the under seam from back to front, without leaving a crease. Hang up by the shoulders to air, or beforo the fire. LACE BLOUSE.—Lace blouses may be washed and stiffened in the same manner; but if white, no alum or salt need be added. Then roll in a dry, clean cloth, and set aside for an hour or two. The whole of a lace blouse should bo ironed on tho wrong side, then' carefully turned and simply smoothed over with a cool iron. Hang up to air, or beforo thn fire. EMBROIDERED BLOUSES.-Put tho blouses into cold water to soak for a night. Then squeeze out, and wash' out in hot water. Soap may bo rubbed on, whito blouses. Wlion washed put into tho copper and give then one good boil, take out, and throw into cold water slightly blued. Squeezo out and pass through a thinly made starch— just of the consistenco to prevent limpness. Then parti}' dry and roll up in a dry cloth'. It may be ironed in an hour's time, or left for a day. TO IRON A. BLOUSE. —Whichever portions are embroidered must be ironed on the wrong side. First iron cuffs, then sleeves. Take these by tho armhole and wrist, and iron from the wrist to tho top, ironing with the point of tho iron towards the armhole. Next iron tho collar or band. If there is a •yoko, iron next by doubling the back from shoulder and not leaving a crease. Iron left side of front from waist to neck, straight with the point of tho iron. Next do right front, then lay tho back fla t'upon the board, a.nd iron from under seams to collar or yoke. Afterwards hold up the sleeves and -iron blouso on under seam. This completes the ironing of. an embroidered blouse.