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Renovation, Clothes Cleaning, etc., Explanation of.
Renovation is the art of making new after injury or partial decay—re-making, from the Latin re, again, and novare, to make new. This word, then, may very
properly be applied to the cleansing of wearing apparel of all kinds, gloves, boots and shoes, paint and great about the house; ink, paint, tar and grease spots upon clothing; also re-coloring faded and worn garments—in fact, everything in the line of cleaning or renewal may come under this head. It will be my purpose, then, to so explain as I proceed, the art of renovation that those who desire to do so may restore their faded or injured or soiled garments to be nearly equal to new. In the cities there are those who follow the various branches of this art with great success and profit. The following recipes and instructions will give the people the secrets of doing it at home just as well as to pay for doing it away from home, and, no doubt, also give some of the professional renovators some things new to themselves. The following compound or soap will, probably, clean a greater variety of colored garments, without injuring the cloth, than any preparation in use. Of course, I have not practiced this art myself, but I obtained these recipes from a woman who lived for a year or two in a house owned by me at the time, and who practiced the art, and had renovated clothing for myself and other members of the family, so I know their reliability. And I may be excused for saying I paid more for these recipes alone ($5) than I get for the book.
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