Hard Water
Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you tell me how to keep clothes white when obliged to wash with very hard water? I have lately come to live in this district, and I notice that my neighbour’s clothes on the line are rather dingy; and as I have very good linen, I am anxious to keep it a good colour.- Spotless." Try a tablespoontul of borax in the copper; also save your eggshells, put them in a muslin bag, and pop that into the copper. The old-fashioned remedy for hard water is to dissolve pipe-clay in it. This is excellent, But you can also buy a prepared powder which helps to whiten the clothes too. I could tell you the name if you sent me a stamped, addressed envelope. Turpentine is another good idea-about a tablespoonful to a copperful of water; and a little cloudy ammonia works wonders, and makes the dirt simply "walk out." Write again and tell me how you fare.’ The borax and the pipe-clay can also be used in the rinsing water-not only the copper.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 38
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