Whitening Unbleached Sheets
Dear Aunt Daisy, I would feel obliged if you could tell me how to bleach new unbleached sheets and pillowcases. "Laundry" (Miltord). The method I have always advocated is to soak the sheets in water with a ood handful of Epsom Salts to each tub-full. Leave for 24 hours, then put through the wringer twice. The salts ate to take out the "dressing." Then put the sheets into a copperful of cold water, into which has been stirred 2 tablespoons of pure turpentine (from the _ Chemist). Boil for 15 to 20 minutes, then ‘rinse twice in clear, cold water. Do NOT «use any blue until the bleaching is com- * plete. However, I have been told lately by a listener that she lett out all the Epsom Salts part, and simply soaked the unbleached sheets in the copper for -one hour with the 2 tablespoons of turpentine added. Then she lighted the copper -a gas one-and boiled as usual. This had excellent results. Probably there was liNle or no "dressing" in her linen.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 418, 27 June 1947, Page 23
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175Whitening Unbleached Sheets New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 418, 27 June 1947, Page 23
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