How To Clean Lace

A correspondent in the Houschokl offers 'the following suggestions for the cleaningof lace: To clean a white lace veil, boil it íifteen minutes in a, solution of white soap and water; put it into a basin of warm suds and keep gently squeezing until it is clean ; do not rub it. Take a basin of cold water, into whicli put a a few drops of blueing; rinse che veil in it; next rinse it in thin rico or gum arabic water. Stretch it out even and pin it to dry on a, clean white cloth; fasten each scallop down with a pin. When dry, lay athin piece of niuslin over it and iron on the wrong side. To clean thread lace, take a large bottle and cover it with clean niuslui and wind the lace around it, securinothe ends with a needie and thread; set the bottle upright in a strong, cold suds anu piace it mtñesun. Keep it in the sun tor a week, changing the lathor daily, and always rubbing it slightly when the suds are renewed. At the end of the week, take it off of tbc bottle, and without rinsing it, pin it backward and forward on a large pillow ;overed with a tight, clean case. Every scallop must havo a separate rfn. The plain edge must be ninned well down also When quite dry, take t ff, but do jiot starch, iron or press L.