Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — To Restore the Freshness of Warm Clothing. [ARTICLE]

To Restore the Freshness of Warm Clothing.

The mystery to many people how the scourers of old clothes can make them almost as good as new is explained in the American Anab st as follows: Take, for instance, a shiny old co t, vest, or piir of pants, of broadcloth, cassimere, or diagonal. the scourer makes a strong, warm soapsuds, and plunges the garment into it, souses i* upland down, rubs the dirty places, if necessary puts it through <i second suds, then rinses it through several waters,, and hangs it to dry on the line. When nearly diy he takes it in, rolls it up and presses it. An old cotton cloth is laid on the outside of the c at, and the tou v'assod cv°r that until the wrinkles are out; but the iron is removed before the steam ceases to rise from the goods, else they would be skiriy, Wrinkles that are obst’nate ar - r moved by laying a wet cloth ov r them, and passing th? iron over that. If any shiny places are seen llry re treated as the wrinkles are; the iron is lifted, while the full cloud of steam rises, and brings the nap up ith it. Cloth should always have a suds made specially for it, as if that wnich has been used for white cotton* or woolen clothes, lint will be left in the water, and cling to the cloth. In this manner we have known the same coat an 1 pantaloons to be renewed time and again, and have all the look and fiel of new garments. Good broadcloth and its fellow cloths will bear many washings, and look better every time because of them.