Soft soap may be used, or a bar of hard dissolved in hot water, and used like soft soap.

All the water in which the clothes have soaked should be drained off, and the hot suds poured on.

Begin with the cleanest articles, which when washed carefully are wrung out, and put in a tub of warm water.

Rinse out from this; rub soap on all the parts which are most soiled, these parts being bands and sleeves, and put them in the boiler with cold water enough to cover them.

To boil up once will be sufficient for fine clothes.