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To Wash a Black Lace Veil

Mix bullock's gall with sufficient hot water to make it as warm as you can bear your hand in, and pass the veil through it. It must be squeezed, not rubbed; and it will be well to perfume the gall with a little musk. Rinse the veil through two cold waters, tinging the last with a little blue. After drying, put it into some stiffening made by pouring boiling it on the wrong side, having laid a linen cloth over the ironing blanket.

Any article of black lace may be washed in this manner. fectly clean; dry it in the air, then dip the water on a very small piece of glue; squeeze sponge in glue-water, and rub it on the wrong it out, stretch it, and clap it. Afterwards, pin side; pin it out on a table, and dry before a fire. it out on a linen cloth to dry, laying it very 460. To Clean Silks, Satins, Colored straight and even, and taking care to open Woolen Dresses, &c. 4 ounces of soft and pin the edge very nicely. When dry, iron soap, 4 ounces of honey, the white of an egg, and a wine-glassful of gin; mix well together, and scour the article (which must be unpicked, and laid in widths on a kitchen table) with a rather hard brush, thoroughly; afterwards 467. To Wash White Silk Stockings. rinse it in cold water, leave to drain, and iron Heat some rain or soft water, and while on whilst quite damp, with a piece of thin muslin the fire cut into it slices of good yellow soap, between it and the iron, or it will be marked to make a lather; put the stockings in while on the ironed side. The silk, when laid on the the lather is warm, but not scalding, and table, must be kept quite smooth, so that wash them in two such waters (a wine-glassevery part may come under the brush. ful of gin in the first water is an improvement); rinse them well in lukewarm water, upright in a strong cold lather of white soap having ready a second rinsing water, in and very clear soft water, and place it in the which is mixed a little blue (not the common kind, but such as is used for muslins and laces), or rose pink, which can be procured at the chemist's, and is used in the same way as the blue, by tying it up in a piece of flannel and squeezing it into the water. After rinsing, put the stockings between towels and let them get almost dry; place them on a small sun, having gently with your hand rubbed the suds up and down on the lace. Keep it in the sun every day for a week, changing the lather daily, and always rubbing it slightly when you renew the suds. At the end of the week, take the blond off the bottle, and (without rinsing) pin it backward and forward on a large pillow covered with a clean tight case.

Thread lace may be washed in the same sheet, lay them out quite flat, as they are Every scallop must have a separate pin; or when first purchased, tack them to the sheet more, if the scallops are not very small. The with a needle and thread, turn the sheet over plain edge must be pinned down also, so as to them, and have them mangled. If it is not make it straight and even. The pins should convenient to have them mangled (run be- be of the smallest size. When quite dry, take tween weighted rollers), the next best plan is it off, but do not starch, iron, or press it. to put four or six stockings one upon the other Lay it in long loose folds, and put it away in between a piece of muslin, lay them on a a pasteboard box. stone doorstep, and beat them with the rolling pin. They must not be mangled or beaten in towels, as the pattern of the towels would 473. Το Clean Thread Lace. Thread be impressed on them. If the stockings have lace may be cleaned in the same manner as lace fronts they will more particularly require in last receipt. Or, when the thread lace the tacking mentioned above to make them has been tacked to the bottle, take some of the look nice. No soda or washing powder of best sweet oil and saturate the lace thoroughany kind must be put to them, and they ly. Have ready in a wash-kettle, a strong must be done quickly, and not left lying cold lather of clear water and white Castile about.