Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1917 — TO CLEAN CURTAINS [ARTICLE]

TO CLEAN CURTAINS

Certain Methods Must Be Adhered to If It Is to Be Successful. Time is needed to make home cur-tain-cleaning a success. Pins are also needed —and many of them. Clean the curtains in pure soapsuds and then rinse them gently in clear, lukewarm water.. Dry them. Then starch tliem in starch colored to give them their original tone, and then pin them out to dry. If the curtains were originally pure white, blue the starch, rather deeply. This will give the curtains a bluewhite look that they had when fresh. If they are cream-colored use tea In the starch to get the right tone, and if they are deep ecru, use coffee to give the desired color. Dry the curtains ‘on sheets stretched out on a carpet that is tacked down—if you possess such a thing. If not, stretch the sheets out on a heavy rug and pin them into place. Then pin the curtains with the innumerable pins to the sheets. If you have an unused mattress in a sunny room, spread a sheet over it and pin the curtains to that. Then be sure to air the mattress thoroughly, so that any dampness from the curtains will dry thoroughly. The best way to wash curtains is to shake them as nearly free from dust as possible and soak them in a tub half full of tepid water in which half a pound of pure soap has been dissolved. In the morning squeeze them fairly dry and place them in a tub full of very hot water to which a tablespoonful of borax and enough dissolved soap to make a strong suds are added. When they seenuclean, after splashing them about in this water, rinse them thoroughly, until there is no trace of suds or dirt. Then squeeze them gently dry. Let them dry thoroughly on the grass or hang them over a line to dry. Then Starch them.