Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1916 — FLUTING IRONS COME BACK [ARTICLE]

FLUTING IRONS COME BACK

Vogue That Has Not Been General for Many Years Has Regained Its K Popularity. Among the other machines dug up with the farthingale and the sampler frame are the fluting irons. A perfect bevy of models in the spring calendar will require fluting. And what was it that the “befoh de war mammies” used to use instead of starch. A lady’s book from an old Virginia family mansion gives a recipe which likely enough will find favor in many a select launftry this season. First making sure of the use of “rain water,” the direction goes on to describe how tuckers, organdie skirts and breakfast caps may' be kept clean and yet given the necessary stiffness by making starch of gum arable carefully melted and strained through a "boblnet” frame. This starch is supposed to be put on in dabs under the very nose of the

sadiron “that there may be no wasteful extravagance,’’ and altogether the proceeding hints of a pretty art wellnigh extinct in these days of steam laundries.