Chapter 4 The Pleasant Valley Girls Learn to Care for

Their Clothes and to Help Repair the Household Linens:

Lesson 1. Care of Clothes 156

Lesson 2. Learning to Darn Straight Tears 163

Lesson 3. Darning Stockings 167

Lesson 4. Patching Saves Clothing and Other Articles 171

Lesson 5. The Story of How Linen is Grown 174

Lesson 6. Common Linen Materials are Identified 181

Lesson 7. Removing Common Stains from Table Linen 185

Lesson 8. Learning to Wash and Iron the Table or Bed Linen 188

Lesson 9. The Story of the Manufacture of Linen Yarn into Cloth 191

Lesson 10. A Talk about Buying Linens 196