Not many women know how to preserve sweet and clean their summer dresses, shoes, hose, and so on. As soon as a waist is taken off, the sleeves should be turned wrong side out and allowed to air, and the dress shields should be sponged occasionally with alcohol and water and hung in the air to dry. The shields can be cleaned and freshened by washing in warm suds to which a little ammonia has been added. After rinsing carefully, the shields should be pulled into perfect shape and pinned to a cloth drawn smoothly over a board. The tops of high shoes should be turned back when taken off and the shoes placed on the window sill or some breezy place to get the sun and air. The best hose should be filled with crumpled tissue15paper and hung where the air can blow through them. A brown linen waist or dress skirt may be kept fresh and new looking, by washing through starch water to which has been added a cup of strained coffee, and the garment should be ironed on the right side with hot irons before it is quite dry. A black alpaca coat or dress skirt can be freshened by sponging with strong coffee and if it is necessary to wash them, a little gum arabic should be added to the rinse water. The light woolen dress skirts worn in summer often become faded long before the summer is over. An economical woman can renew a light tan skirt by coloring it a darker shade of brown, or a faded blue skirt can be colored a rich dark blue, and both can be so carefully pressed that the goods will look fresh and new. You can keep your lawn and muslin dresses fresh and dainty looking by sponging them on the wrong side with thin gum arabic water and pressing on the wrong side while they are damp.