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To Shrink Flannel

Flannel should be soaked in cold hard water before to shirt-bosoms, and to lawns (cither white or be soaked in cold hard water before to shirt-bosoms, and to lawns (either white or making, and hung up to drain and dry without printed) a look of newness to which nothing any squeezing or handling in the water. else can restore them after washing. It is After this it will not shrink in washing. Filla also good (much diluted) for thin white mustub with spring water, place the flannel in it, and take out as soon as it sinks to the bottom.

It does not lose the appearance of new flannel when dry. lin and bobbinet. ticles. For starching muslins, ginghams, 499. To Make Starch for Colored Ar- Colored Arof starch, a piece of alum the size of a shelland calicoes, dissolve and add to every pint bark. By so doing, the colors will keep. bright for a long time, which is very desirable when dresses must be often washed, and the