'To preserve the colour of cream nen articles, such as supper cloths, ruble centres, doilies, ete., and proven' the linen from gradually' going white, wash in bran water.
Put one cup of bran into a saucepan with two pints of cold water, bring slowly t0 boiling point, simmer half fan hour, then strain through muslin' and add' another quart of water and little melted soap. If the linen is tion no starching Is necessary, bran water gives sullicient stiffening. Less soap is used as the bran has a cleansing action, and the articles re-fain that delightful creamy tint.
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