A Treatise on Domestic Economy
       For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School



By: Catherine Esther Beecher
CHAPTER XXVI.

ON WASHING.

All needful Accommodations should be provided. Plenty of Water, easily accessible, necessary. Articles to be provided for Washing.  Substitutes for Soft Water. Common Mode of Washing. Assorting Clothes. To Wash Bedding. Feathers. Calicoes. Bran-water.  Potato-water. Soda Washing. Soda Soap. Mode of Soda Washing.  Cautions in Regard to Colored Clothes, and Flannels. To Wash Brown Linen, Muslins, Nankeen, Woollen Table-Covers and Shawls, Woollen Yarn, Worsted and Woollen Hose. To Cleanse Gentlemen's Broadcloths.  To make Ley, Soft Soap, Hard Soap, White Soap, Starch, and other
Articles used in Washing
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