Some Silk Tags

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 11, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 24.

recommend particular soaps and caution against Cheap Washing Powders. Latter is good advice, but cannot refer to Pearline.

Test. We soaked in Pearline suds, as strong as we direct for heaviest, Coarsest Washing, for three hours. 20 skeins of the most sensitive and delicately colored Wash Embroidery Silks manufactured by D. M. C., J. & P. Armstrong Co., Corticelli Silk Co., M. Hemingway & Sons Co., and others. Nineteen skeins showed no loss of color. One skein showed almost imperceptible loss, and this skein when washed as directed on tag—using Pearline instead of the mild soap recommended—showed no loss of color.

The Results of this Abuse of Pearline prove that there is Certainly no risk to Color in the Use of Pearline