TO BLEACH A FADED DRESS.—Wash the dress in hot suds, and boil it until the colour appears to be gone; then rinse it and dry it in the sun. Should it not be rendered white by these means, lay the dress in the open air, and bleach it for several days. If still not quite white, repeat the boiling. TO PRESERVE THE COLOUR OF A PRINT DRESS.—The body and train to be separated and washed in cold rain water, into which a handful of common salt has been thrown. Instead of spreading, it should be tightly rolled in a coarse cloth, and allowed to remain until dry enough to iron.—E. TO RESTORE LINEN THAT HAS LONG BEEN STAINED.—Rub the stains on each side with wet brown soap; mix some starch to a thick paste, with cold water, and spread it over the soaped places; then expose the linen to the air, and if the stains have not disappeared in three or four days, rub off the mixture, and repeat the process with fresh soap and starch. Afterwards dry it, wet it with cold water, and put it in the wash. TO WASH MOUSSELINE-DE-LAINE.—Boil a pound of rice in five quarts of water, and, when cool enough, wash in this, using the rice for soap. Have another quantity ready, but strain the rice from this and use it with warm water, keeping the rice strained off for a third washing, which at the same time stiffens and also brightens the colours.—W. TO PREVENT COLOURED THINGS FROM RUNNING.—Boil a quarter of a pound of soap till nearly dissolved, then add a small piece of alum and boil with it. Wash the things in this lather, but do not soap them. If they require a second water, put alum to that also, as well as to the swilling and blue-water. This will preserve them. STAIN MIXTURE.—Take an ounce of sal-ammoniac (or hartshorn), and an ounce of salt of tartar—mix them well, put them into a pint of soft water, and bottle it for use, keeping it very tightly corked. Pour a little of this liquid into a saucer, and wash in it those parts of a white article that have been stained with ink, mildew, fruit, or red wine. When the stains have by this process been removed, wash the article in the usual manner.—M. C. TO RESTORE SCORCHED LINEN.—Take two onions, peel and slice them, and extract the juice by squeezing or pounding. Then cut up half an ounce of white soap, and two ounces of fuller’s earth; mix with them the onion juice, and half a pint of vinegar. Boil this composition well, and spread it when cool, over the scorched part of the linen, leaving it to dry thereon. Afterwards wash out the linen. TO WHITEN LINEN THAT HAS TURNED YELLOW.—Cut up a pound of fine white soap into a gallon of milk, and hang it over the fire in a wash-kettle. When the soap has entirely melted, put in the linen, and boil it half an hour. Then take it out; have ready a lather of soap and warm water; wash the linen in it and then rinse it through two cold waters, with a very little blue in the last.—J. W.