Thursday, October 7. 1909.'
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
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makes an ugly stain, wash it with
,,rnentine before washing.
Tar, Lampblack, Stove Polish.
Saturate the spot witn Kerosene,
in naptha soap and water.
Ordinary Grease Spots may be
washed with just soap and water, or
with naptha soap and warm water if
4,,ct the spot is to do treated.
Turpentine, oil or lard, will often
soften an old grease spot before
washing. . '
Grease is soluble in alcohol, chlo
roform or benzine. For delicate col
ors chloroform or etner is Dest.
Fullers earth or chalk may be
made into a paste and left on the
spot. . .
If you have a dirty silk waist and
cannot put it in water, get a gallon
of gasoline a smaller amount will
spot it, soak the waist in it over
night in a closed jar and wash out
well in the morning. Let dry in a
good breeze if possible. This is very
inflammable. The remaining gasoline
can be put through a 2 -cent sheet of
filtering paper, put in a corked bot
tle and used over and over.
Blood. Wash in cold water until
stain turns brown then ; rub with
naptha soap and wash In warm
water.
For thick cloth or wool, apply a
thick paste of raw starch and keep
repeating until the spot is gone.
Ink is composed of so many things
that what will easily remove one ink
spot will not remove that made by
another kind of ink. If the stain is
fresh, soak it in milk, using more
milk as the old becomes discolored.
Treat with lemon juice and salt. Al
cohol will sometimes take them out.
If all else fails, wet the spot and
apply oxalic acid. Let stand until
stain disappears. Rinse well in wa
ter to which borax or ammonia has
been added or a hole in the goods is
apt to be the result.
The milk process is the only one
that will not remove the color from
the material itself.
I Grass Stains. Soak in alcohol or
wash in naptha soap and warm wa
ter. Ammonia and water is good
for white goods.
For colored fabrics, apply molasses
or a paste of soap and soda and let
stand over night.
To Set Colors. The best material;
used in the household for setting
colors are cup vinegar, or two
cups salt and one tablespoon alum to
a gallon of water.
The cloth should be left in the so
lution over night or even a couple of
days, it should then be thoroughly
dried before washing. The effect of
salt is said to not be lasting and Is
often repeated with each washing.
Vinegar, is best for pinks.
. i Even under the best conditions the
clothes should not be allowed to soak
for a long time in soap and water.
The suds should not be too strong
nor should bleaching agents or wash
mg powders be used. The clothes
should be turned inside out and
dried out of the direct sunlight. Fad
mg is more often due to faulty dry-
than to careless washing.
! Special Directions for Woolens.
In washine flannels it is best to
have the water no hotter than the
aand can bear for both washing and
raising, to have the suds ready so the
soap need not be rubbed directly on
tne garment and to soak the woolens
from ten to fifteen minutes only be
fore washing. It is better to squeeze
lhem uo and down in the water than
to rub on the board. Rinse in several
jters and do not wring too .well.
? ttot dry la the hot sun or near a
Shape by pulling aad ctreu&laff
tfcaa by shakU.
Ribbons and Laces.
Gibbons should be washed in a suds
"IT"
A LITTLE BEAUTY SPOT
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Here is a bit of al
most ideal planting
the low, sift-tinted
border in front and
the perfect outlines t f
the lilies, distinct
against the evergreen
background, com
bine to make a rarr
lv beautful picture..
Yet it is one wnih
almost every reader
might duplicate. Nfxt
week we are gninsr
to have a helpful
article on the fall
planting of bulbs for
next season's blos
soming; but let us
urge you to plant these lilies- the com iron white, or Annuncia
tion, lilies right now. The socner it is done the better.
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of mild soap and water like all silk.
The ribbon should be laid out flat on
some smooth surface and scrubbed
with a brush up and down, then rins
ed in clear. water. It should not be
wrinkled at all, as each crack leaves
its mark. Do not hang up to dry but
place between dry cloths and while
still damp iron, under a thin cloth,
on the wrong side.
If laces are fine, baste on a thin
cloth. Wash them in a mild soap
suds to which a little ammonia or bo
rax has been added. Squeeze out
with the hands, but do not rub. Rinse
-f-f
, i j
well. A good way to dry lis to
stretch the lace around a bottle and
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iet siana in ine Drigni sun.
Lace may be stiffened by
in borax water, 2 tablespoonfiils to
thfi rnn. hv iisin 1 -8 tosdnArtnfiil
gum arabic to a cup, or by putting it
through-a cup of water to which two
tablespoonfuls of alcohol have! been
added.
If desired yellow, dip in cpffee or
tea. Black lace should be put jthrough
a cup of strong coffee to which a
tablespoonful of ammonia has been
added.
rinsing
fielpo to Easier Washing A Symposium.
A Satisfactory Washing Machine.
Dear Aunt Mary: For over eight
years we have used what is known
is the 1900 washing machine. We
aave seen a score or more differ-
tmt washing machines, but this is
ihe only one of which we know that
rill wash all the clothes and wash
ihem clean. We do not find it neces
sary to use the board for especially
soiled garments or spots.
Usually we have two machinef uls
jf white and one of colored clothes.
rhe less soiled white ones are put
into the,, machine, boiler full of
boiling hot water into which a half
oar of soap has been dissolved, it
poured over them, the machine
(which has two coiled spring
under the tub so arranged that
the recoil of the springs makes the
working of the machine very easy)
Is turned from 5 to 10 minutes, the
clothes put through wringer attached
md the next lot of white clothes put
In. By the time these are wrung
out, the water is cool enough not to
iade the colored clothes, and they
are. washed through the same water
In the meantime another boiler of
water, and a half bar of soap, has
been heated to the boiling point, and
the clothes are put through
chine a second time.
If there are two to do the
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One of Our Roadcro Tolls
How Her Husband Learned
What Washday Means to a Woman
Dear Editor: Most men have do realization
of what "wash-day" means to a woman. My
husband is one of the best men that ever lived, but
he laughed when I asked him one day to get me a
1900 Gravity Washer. I told him it would wash a
tubful of clothes in
six minutes. "Why
wife." said he, "a
washing machine is
a luxury. And be
sides, there's no bet- .
ter exercise than
rubbing clothes on a
washboard. It's
good for the back.
I think we had better
wait 'til we get the
farm paid for before
fooling away money
on such new-fangled
things as washing
machines."
That set
tled it. I gave
up the idea,
andkept right
o n washing
in the same
0 1 d w a y. I '
confess that
1 felt hurt.but
I knew John
had no notion
how hard it
was to do the
washing ,
for a fam
ily of five
three of
fViom 1!f
John'. "Busy Day" tie tots
I am not very strong, and the washing, with all
my other work, finally got the better of me. I had
quite a sick spell and after things had gone at
sixes and sevens for nearly two weeks, I suggested
to John that he had better do the washing. We
couldn't hire a girl for love or money and the situa
tion was desperate.
So one morning he started in. 'My, what a com
motion there was in the kitchen! From my bed
room I occasionally caught glimpses of poor John
struggling with that mountain of dirty clothes.
If ever a man had all the "exercise" he wanted.
my husband was that man! Couldn't help feeling
sorry for him and yet it mad - me laugh, for I re
membered how he made fun of me when I hinted
so strongly for a 1900 Gravity Washer. When he
finally got the clothes done and on the line, he was
just about "all in."
That evening. John came to my room and said
kind, of sheepishly" What's the name of the firm
that makes those Washers you were telling me
about?" I looked up their advertisement and
found the following address : ;
The 1900 Washer Co., 470 Henry St.,
Binghamton, im. Y.
Canadian address: The Canadian
1900 Washer Co., 355 Yonge St.,
Toronto, Canada.
. That's all he said, but he lost no time in sending
for their Free Washer Book. The book came in
due time . and with it an offer to send the 1900
Gravity Washer on thirty days' free trial. My
husband jumped at the chance to try the Washer
without having to spend a cent. "Well have four
weeks' use of the Washer anyway; even if we
don't decide to keep it," he said. So he told the
Company to send on the Washer.
It was sent promptly, all charges paid, and the
1900 Washer Company offered to let us pay for it
in little easy payments. The next week I felt well
enough to use it. It Is the nicest Washer I ever
saw, and it almost runs It3elf. Takes only six
minutes to wash a tubful, and the garments come
out spotlessly clean.
We were all delisrhted with the wash
er, and wrote to the Company that we QQ
would keep it and accept their easy rJi
payment terms of cents a weeic.
IIT. I J L J. III. -Mlc..i -
the mcnev and wouldn't part r M
j with the Washer for five times
its cost if we couldn't get an-
If women knew what a won- HFk-
derful help the 1900
Gravity Washeris,
not one would be
without it. It saves;
work and worry and
doctors' bills. Takes
awav all the dread
of wash-day. I feel
like a different wom
an since I have quit
the use of the wash
board. And if any
woman's husband
objects to buying
one of these labor
saving machines.
(nice a hint from mv
Let the man do just one big washing by hand
rubbing on the old-fashioned washboard, and be
will be only too glad to get you a 1900 Gravity
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Anybody can get one on free trial, by first writ
ing for the Washer Book.
Excuse me for writing such a long letter, but I
hope, Mr. Editor, you will print it for the benefit
of the women readers of your valuable paper.
Sincerely yours. M RS. J. H. SMITH. '
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