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cold, but not have it a bit hot. Now don't laugh at such an idea
and not give it a trial, but this spring you wash your flannel blankets, woolen stockings, baby's flannel and then report. I learned of a Scotch lady years ago and never think of using hot water; use soft water of course.
Remarks. —Certainly the water being made a little warm will not cause shrinkage. The suds should be made before putting in the flannels, and not by rubbing the soap on them.
For Washing Scarlet Flannels, etc., Without Fading or Shrinking. —To prevent scarlet flannels or worsted goods of any kind of this color, from fading by washing, it is claimed by some washer-women that the following plan is perfectly safe: Mix flour, 1/2 cup, little by little, with cold • water, 1 qt.; then boiling 10 or 15 minutes and mixing with the lukewarm suds, pressing and rinsing, up and down, a number of times, then passing through the wringer, the goods will not be faded or thickened, as there is to be no rubbing.
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