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Washing Made Easy

The washerwomen of Holland and Belgium, so proverbially clean, and who get their linen so beautifully white, used refined borax as washing cotton, upon two thicknesses of flannel. powder instead of soda, in the proportion of Soak the lace, thus arranged, in the soap-sudsa pound of borax powder to 10 gallons of mixture for 24 hours, or longer if very dirty, water. They save soap nearly one half. All changing the suds two or three times. Then the large washing establishments adopt the let it lie for 2 or 3 hours in clean water to same mode. For laces, cambrics, etc., an rinse, changing the water once. Squeeze it out (do not wring it), and, when partially dry, place the flannel with the lace on it, lace downwards, on two thicknesses of dry flannel laid on a table, and smooth it with a hot iron.

During the whole process, the lace must remain basted on the flannel; and when it is pressed, must lie sandwiched between the dry and damp flannel, and pressed upon the latter. When the lace is perfectly dry, rip it off. 479. Twelvetree's Washing Fluid for extra quantity of powder is used; and for crinolines (requiring to be made stiff) a stronger solution is necessary. Borax, being a neutral salt, does not in the slightest degree injure the texture of the linen. Its effect is to soften the hardest water, and therefore it should be kept on the toilet table.