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To Bleach Brown Sheeting

fabric. But if the scorching is not quite Having soaked the cloth 12 hours in strong through, and the threads not actually con- soap-suds, take + pound chloride of lime for sumed, then the application of this composition, followed by two or three good washings, will restore the linen to its original color; the marks of the scorching will be so totally effaced as to be imperceptible, and the place will seem as white and perfect as any other every 12 yards of sheeting, and dissolve it in enough boiling water to cover the cloth when dipped into it. As soon as the lime is dissolved, strain the solution through a flannel or other coarse cloth, then put the brown sheeting in the strained lime-water, stirring part of the linen. Mix well together 2 ounces constantly, and after it has remained thus in fuller's earth reduced to a powder; 1 ounce this liquor for about half an hour, take out , take out hen's dung; 1/2 ounce of cake soap, scraped; the cloth and rinse it well in pure water, SO as and the juice of 2 large onions, obtained by to be sure to remove all the lime-water; and the onions being cut up, beaten in a mortar, then boil it up in strong soap-suds, and hang and pressed. Boil this mass in pint strong out to dry, and the work of weeks will have vinegar, stirring it from time to time, until it been accomplished in a day or two . forms a thick liquid compound. Spread this