OUR ARM- CHAIR . - HOUSEKEEPER'S HINTS . wwwwww HOUSEKEEPER'S HINTS. OUR ARM- CHAIR. A FEW WORDS ABOUT WASHING.-The linen for a Monday's THE BEST OF THE LADY'S BOOKS.-Says the Mansfield (Ohio) Herald, speaking of this periodical :-" What we have said, wash should be collected on Saturday evening, and sorted formerly, latterly, and at all times, we say again: it is em- and put to soak in cold water, according to various kinds, phatically that ' Peterson's' is the Magazine for the times." The body linen should be put into one tub, the bed and Says the Madison (Wis.) Democrat :-" When we see the table linen in another, and the fine things separately. Plain immense amount of fashion cuts in ' Peterson,' we are not collars, cuffs, and wristbands, should be strung through the surprised that it is so popular with the ladies." The Tom's button-holes on a piece of bobbin long enough to enable the River (N. J.) Courier says :-" This sprightly Magazine cou- articles to be easily divided for rubbing, starching, etc. By tains the best that is found in other publications, while it soaking dirty clothes in cold water, the stains are loosened, is afforded at a lower price." The Charleston ( Mo. ) Adver- and the error of washing in too hot water is obviated. tiser says:-" Its literature stands in the van of magazines All washing is better done by suds than by rubbing on of its class." Says the Coburg (C. W. ) Sentinel:-"The soap; only the very soiled places require soap rubbing. literary contributions are the best to be found in any of The best way to get good suds is to shred into an earthea. the magazines." The Franklin (N. Y.) Register says :- ware jar best yellow soap cut into very fine shavings, and to "Should be in every house in the land." The Coshocton pour boiling water to the quantity required. One pound of (0.) Democrat says :-" None are so popular and useful as soap is plenty for one gallon of water. Add to this quantity 'Peterson's.' Says the Dodgeville (Wis.) Chronicle :-" The halfa pound of best Scotch soda, and set the jar (covered) engravings in ' Peterson's' one never wearies with seeing, on a stove, or at the back of the kitchen range, till the and the fashions are the latest and prettiest." The Cum- soap is quite dissolved. If this be done on Saturday evenberland (Md.) Alleghanian says :—“ As an arbiter of fashion, ing, the soap will be a smooth liquid fit to use on Monday the Magazine stands first." Says the Wilmington (Ind.) Com- morning. mercial - Peterson' keeps up, in quantity and quality, The body linen is the first batch that requires "tubbing." with its higher-priced cotemporaries." The Mt. Clement Ifhand labor is used, every portion of the garment should (Mich.) Press says :-"The steel engraving in the number be rubbed over, and afterward rinsed through clean suds. before us is in itself worth the price of the Magazine." Says The things are then fit for the copper. The water in the copthe Dexter (Mich.) Leader :-"Its fashion-plates are the per should be cold when the clothes are put in, and should most superb, and its stories the most attractive." The contain (if of moderately large size) about five ounces of Hillsdale (Mich.) Democrat says :-" Always ahead of its soda and a pint and a half of soap-jelly of the above propor cotemporaries, both in point of time and excellence." The tions. To prevent burning, the linen requires stirring about Lapeer (Mich. ) Clarion says :-" Up to the times, and cheaper occasionally . It is also a good plan, to avoid burning, to than the cheapest." The Dayton (0.) Ledger says :-" The have a piece of coarse basket-work laid at the bottom of the best and cheapest of the lady's books." Hundreds of similar unsolicited notices appear every month. If you are copper. Ten minutes after the water has come to boiling getting up a club for "Peterson," read some of these heat is long enough for the clothes to remain in the copper. They should then be taken out and thrown into the rinsing opinions of the press to the ladies you ask to subscribe. trough. The whiteness of linen depends fully as much upon good rinsing as upon hard rubbing. If it can be managed, CABINET ORGANS.—The Boston Journal says :-"The export the rinsing should be accomplished by setting the trough business of the Mason & Hamlin Organ Company is growing under a tap of running water. After rinsing, blueing is the to be of considerable importance, their well-known Organs next process. The best stone blue tied up in a bag of very having the highest reputation in Europe as well as in stout flannel of several thicknesses is most suitable for plain America. In their packing-rooms, the other day, were Inen. Only one article should be blued at a time, or, if instruments for Japan and China, as well as a large ship- small, as many as the washer can hold in her hand. If the ment (ordered by cable) for England, where the demand is clothes are allowed to drop to the bottom of the trough, the rapidly increasing. These are all sent in answer to ordersin folds of the liuen no instruments being consigued by them. This Company particles of blue are liable to settle the received orders for more than two hundred Organs last and make streamy marks, very difficult to get out. Led and table linen do not usually require more thanone week. Attempts have been made to imitate the Mason & Hamlin Organs in England and Canada, but thus far with- tubbing with suds. Ifmuch soiled, the labor will, of course, out success. In this country the patents controlled by this be greater. The things should afterward be submitted to the same treatment as the body linen. Company prevent imitation." Woolens do not require soaking previous to washing. It in suds used for other MRS. T. EDMONDSON, of Jersey City, says :-" I purchased is bad economy to wash such articles All flannels require special care ; no soda shonld purposes. my Wheeler & Wilson machine July 10th, 1857, and for the be used for them, nor soap rubbed on. If so, the flannels first six years used it constantly from morning until late in will surely turn yellow and shrink. The soap-jelly shoul the evening on heavy cloth and Marseilles work, and the be prepared as described, with the addition of a packet of remainder of the time I have used it for family sewing, Manby's washing crystal-powder instead of soda. Water without repairs, and the machine is in so good condition for washing flannels should only be lukewarm, and wooleus that I would not exchange it for your latest number. It should never be rinsed in clear water, neither must they le will wear a dozen years more without repairing. I have wrung, but only squeezed from the snds, used one needle nearly three years, and have some of the In getting up dimity and piques, the failure is not gener dozen needles that I received with the machine." ally in the washing, but in starching. A good-sized panfr! THE NEWSPAPERS universally admit that this is the of starch should be used, in which three or four inches of cheapest and best of the lady's magazines. But compare composite or other candle has been melted whilst hot. The "Peterson," for yourselves, with any other of its price and articles should be thoroughly squeezed from the starch and kind. A specimen will be sent, gratis, to any one wishing folded whilst wet between folds of old sheeting or table to get up a club, Be early in the field, before others with linen. They should then be passed beneath the rollers ofa mangle, or through a wringing-machine. All lumps of inferior magazines . starch are thus removed. Dimity requires no other finishTHE CHRISTIAN SUN says :-" Young man, if you alreadying, except that when it is half dried on the lines it should have a Bible, buy Webster's Unabridged Dictionary next." be taken down and shaken, and pulled into the ribs formed 392
