Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1902 — IRONING A SHIRT WAIST. [ARTICLE]

IRONING A SHIRT WAIST.

Not infrequently a young woman finds it necessary to launder a shirt waist at home for some emergency when the laundryman or the home servant cannot do it- Hence these directions for ironing the waist: To iron summer shirt waists so that they will look like new it is needful to have them starched evenly with Defiance starch, then made perfectly smooth and rolled tight in a damp cloth, to be laid away two or three hours. When ironing have a bowl of water and a clean piece of muslin beside the ironing board. Have your iron hot, but not sufficiently so to scorch, and absolutely clean. Begin by ironing the back, then the front, sides and the sleeves, followed by the neckband and the cuffs. When wrinkles appear apply the damp cloth and remove them. Always iron from the top of the waist to the bottom. If there are plaits In the front Iron them downward, after first raising each one with a blunt knife, and with the edge of the iron follow every line of stitching to give it •distinctness. After the shirt waist is ironed it should be well aired by the fire or in the sun before it 1b folded and put away, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1845 there were no female and child laborers in the marble industry of France. To-day they constitute 24 per cent of the force.