Ironing is often badly done from inattention to a few very simple requirements.

Cleanliness is the first essential: the ironing-board, the fire, the iron, and the ironing-blanket should all be perfectly clean.

Cleanliness is the first essential: the ironing-board, the fire, the iron, and the ironing-blanket should all be perfectly clean.

It will not be necessary here to enter into details on ironing, as full directions are given in the "Duties of the Laundry-maid."

A lady's-maid will have a great deal of "Ironing-out" to do; such as light evening dresses, muslin dresses, &c., which are not dirty enough to be washed, but merely require smoothing out to remove the creases.

Usually, if all the washing is done at home, the mistress hires some one to assist at the wash-tub, and sees to little matters herself, in the way of dusting, clearing away breakfast things, folding, starching, and ironing the fine things.

The laundry establishment consists of a washing-house, an ironing and drying-room, and sometimes a drying-closet heated by furnaces.

Adjoining the bleaching-house, a second room, about the same size, is required for ironing, drying, and mangling.

Thursday and Friday, in a laundry in full employ, are usually devoted to mangling, starching, and ironing. 2388.

Linen, cotton, and other fabrics, after being washed and dried, are made smooth and glossy by mangling and by ironing.

Ironing is necessary to smooth body-linen, and made-up articles of delicate texture or gathered into folds.

Strict cleanliness with all the ironing utensils must be observed, as, if this is not the case, not the most expert ironer will be able to make her things look clear and free from smears, &c.

After wiping down her ironing table, the laundry-maid should place a coarse cloth on it, and over that the ironing-blanket, with her stand and iron-rubber; and having ascertained that her irons are quite clean and of the right heat, she proceeds with her work.

After wiping down her ironing table, the laundry-maid should place a coarse cloth on it, and over that the ironing-blanket, with her stand and iron-rubber; and having ascertained that her irons are quite clean and of the right heat, she proceeds with her work.

It is a good plan to try the heat of the iron on a coarse cloth or apron before ironing anything fine: there is then no danger of scorching.

For ironing fine things, such as collars, cuffs, muslins, and laces, there is nothing so clean and nice to use as the box-iron; the bottom being bright, and never placed near the fire, it is always perfectly clean; it should, however, be kept in a dry place, for fear of its rusting.

She ought also to be acquainted with the art of ironing and trimming little caps, and be handy with her needle.

Up-stairs the tiny chambers were decked with spotless white dimity, and rush-bottomed chairs stood in each window, with a strip of the same old carpet by either bedside; and in the kitchen the blue settle that had stood by the Vermont fireside now defended this lesser hearth from the draught of the door, and held under the seat thereof sundry ironing-sheets, the blanket belonging to them, and good store of ticking and worsted holders.

"I been washing and ironing and still doing it.

After moving to Arkansas, she made a living working in the field by the day and as she grew older, washing and ironing, sewing, housecleaning and cooking.

They want niggers to do all their washing and ironing.

One faithful negro woman nursed the twins of her mistress, and did all the washing, ironing, and scouring.

And my thought ranged lovingly over our householdprim, regular, and perfect: my old aunt embroidering in the breakfast-room, and Rebecca and Lucy ironing in the impeachable kitchen, and not one of them with the least suspicion that Adam had not really waked up one morning minus a rib.

Shall your tender hands become hard as leather with washing, ironing, kneading, and who knows what housework beside?

Setting the table was a mere sinecure, as there was nothing much to put on it; and the only ironing was a few articles outside my own, as Mr M'Swat and Peter did not wear white shirts, and patronised paper collars.