This lesson will represent the morning after the clothes have been soaked overnight.

First, wring out the clothes. Wash the tubs and fill nearly full of, hot water. Fill the boiler half full of cold water and add enough dissolved soap to make a light suds. Put a coarse, clean cloth in bottom of the boiler, to prevent scorching of clothes. You are now ready to wash [...]
In clothes, as in dishes, the cleanest are washed first.

• Table and Bed Linen.

• Put these in one tub of hot water; use soap freely. As each piece is washed wring it with the hands and drop it in the next tub of water. When all of this first lot are in the second tub, wash again with soap, as before; as each piece is washed and wrung from this tub, drop it in the boiler of cold water. When the boiler is full light the fire, if it is a gas stove; pull it over the hot fire, if it is a coal stove. Press the clothes down with a wooden stick, which is also necessary to turn the clothes and take them from the boiler.
• While the first tubful of clothes is scalding in the boiler, rub out the second tubful of underclothes, which are the next cleanest, in the same manner.
• When the second lot is ready for the boiler, the first should have finished boiling and be ready to take out. Put these in a tub of clear water.
• Wash the third lot, which will be the very soiled clothes and towels, while the second lot is in the boiler.
• Take the second lot from the boiling water and put them in the tub with first clothes, and then put third washing in the boiler.
• It is now time to rinse the first and second clothes. First, wash out and thoroughly clean the tubs that have been used in washing, as they are to be used for the rinsing. Fill both tubs with clear hot water; rinse and wring from one tub into the other, then wring out into bluing water. The last boiler of clothes should be rinsed in the same way and blued. As the clothes are wrung out from the bluing water separate those that require starching.

Bluing Water.
Use clean cold water, and have the bluing ball tied in a cloth, to prevent specks coming on the clothes. Never allow the clothes to stand in this water, as they will become streaked, and never, for the same reason, allow them to rest on the bottom of the tub.
Hanging.
Be sure the lines are clean and tight. Every time they are used they must be wiped with a clean, damp cloth. See that the clothes pins are clean and not broken. Hang clothes of a kind together, and hang white clothes in the sunlight, if possible. All articles should be hung on the wrong side. Hang the sheets out first, as they take the longest time to dry.    In hanging fine pieces, and the underclothes, be careful that the clothes pins do not tear the garments.

A second course in homemaking, with two hundred inexpensive cooking receipts by Kittredge, Mabel Hyde, 1867-1955