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How to Make Up Shirt Bosoms

Take two ounces of fine gum arabic powder; put it in a pitcher, and pour into it a pint or more of boiling water, according to the degree of strength you require, , and then having covered it let it stand all night; in the morning pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork and keep it for use. A tablespoonful of gum stirred into a pint of starch made in the usual manner will give to lawn, either white or printed, a look of newness when nothing else can restore them after they have been washed.