I can remember my mother sprinkling the clothes before ironing, then rolling them up and putting them in the "ice box". It wasn't really an ice box but that's what we called our refrigerator when I was growing up (50's and 60's)... :D Her sprinkling bottle was an empty ketchup bottle with something fitted into the top for sprinkling. When I was around 9 yrs old she used to pay me to iron my father's handkerchieves ....I think it was a penny a piece.