STAINS ON WHITE LINEN OR COTTON Ink Stains. — Substances recom mended for removing ink from linen are salts of lemon, cream of tartar, citric acid, oxalic acid, lemon juice, vinegar, salt, sour milk, and chloride of lime. The treatment to be em ployed depends necessarily upon the nature of ink.
Ink stains should be treated as quickly as possible, before the ink has had a chance to set. While fresh, pour over them a quantity of salt, dry starch, or other absorbent, and brush it away as it absorbs the ink. Keep the spots wet, and continue applying the absorbent until the ink is re moved.
Or keep the spots wet with milk, and apply dry salt until the stains come out.
Or wash the stains with sour milk and let them soak over night.
Or dip the stains alternately in strong bran water and lemon juice until they disappear.
Or use equal parts cream of tartar and powdered salts of sorrel (salts of lemon), dissolved in the smallest possible quantity of boiling water and applied hot.
Or rinse carefully in clean water and apply oxalic acid. If this pro duces a red tinge apply dilute aqua ammonia.
Or dip small articles, as laces, handkerchiefs, and the like, in melted tallow and after the stain has dis appeared remove the tallow by boil ing in hot soapsuds. This last is perhaps the simplest and best of all remedies.
To Remove Marking Ink from Linen.—Apply fresh chloride of lime mixed with water. As soon as the color fades, dip into a solution of aqua ammonia or hyposulphite of soda, and rinse well before sending to the laundry.
To Remove Indelible Ink.—Stains made by indelible ink containing ni trate of silver may be removed by ap plying chloride of copper. After wards dip the article in hyposulphite of soda.
Or apply a dilute solution of per manganate of potash and muriatic acid, and follow with hyposulphite of soda. Cyanide of potash is also used for this purpose. It is highly poison ous.
Or melt pure tallow and pour over the ink spot while hot. Remove the tallow by dipping in hot water; re peat if necessary. This is a method employed by many dyers and clean ers, and has the merit of not injur ing the fabric.
To Remove Printer's Ink.—Soak the spots in turpentine for several hours. Rub them in the turpentine, as in washing. Let dry and brush thoroughly with a stiff brush.
To Remove Iron Rust.—Use lemon juice, salt, and sunshine. Or a strong solution of oxalic acid rubbed in with the fingers. Or equal parts of pow dered alum and salt applied dry to the wet fabric.
Grass Stains.—Use tartaric acid or cream of tartar dissolved in boiling water. Apply hot. Or rub lard on the spot when fresh and afterwards wash as usual.
Ink Stains.—Rub promptly with a slice of lemon. Or dip in pure melted tallow. Or apply a saturated solution of oxalic acid or dilute muriatic acid or salts of lemon.
Use dilute tartaric acid for colored goods. If the colors fade, renew with
dilute aqua ammonia.
Acid Stains.—Wash the article and dip in Javelle or chlorine water. For colored goods, moisten in dilute aqua ammonia.
Nitrate of Silver or Nitric-acid Stains.—Apply iodine and rub brisk ly with strong aqua ammonia.
Or apply a dilute solution of per manganate of potash and hydro chloric acid. Afterwards dip in a solution of hyposulphite of soda and rinse well.
Mildew.— Boil in strong borax water.
Iodine.—Soak for an hour or more in a warm solution of aqua ammonia and water. Then while still wet rub dry bicarbonate of potash into the stain until it is fully removed.
Cod-liver Oil. — Add kerosene or aqua ammonia to the suds and boil.
Red Wine.—Bleach with sulphur fumes over an inverted funnel, or dip in Javelle or chlorine water.
Tannin Stains.—These may be pro duced by green chestnut burs, walnut husks, or substances used for tanning leather. Dip in hot Javelle or chlorine water, remove,, and rinse quickly. Or apply a strong solution of tartaric acid.
Red Stains from Colored Goods.— The dyes used for colored goods, red threads, etc., sometimes run and acci dentally stain white goods. Apply fumes of sulphur through an inverted cone, or a saturated solution of ox alic acid or Javelle or chlorine water.
Mud Stains.—Dip the mud stains in kerosene before putting them in the boiler. Add kerosene to the boil ing water.
Grease Spots.—Apply a hot satu rated solution of alum with a sponge or brush, or dissolve in 1 quart of warm water 2 ounces of aqua am monia, I teaspoonful of saltpeter, and 2 ounces of castile soap. Soak the spot in this liquid and sponge.
Or moisten the spot with butter or olive oil and rub with chloroform.
Machine Grease.—Rub sal soda or cooking soda into the spot 'and pour boiling water through until the spot is removed.
To Dry-clean White Goods.—Small mud stains on a clean white skirt may be concealed until ready for the laun dry by pipe day or painting over with white water-color paint.
Or if a clean white skirt or shirt waist is spattered or spotted by mud or soot, let it dry, scrape off with a penknife, and rub over the stain with white crayon or school chalk.
Rub with a clean white cloth until the spot disappears.
To Dry-clean Shirt Waists.—Put 4 quarts of corn meal into a 24-pound flour sack or a pillow slip. Put the waist into this, and rub or knead gently so that the meal will come in contact with all parts of the fabric. Leave it there for a day or two, then shake and dust thoroughly, and press with a hot iron.
To Clean Cotton Dress Skirts.— Mud stains may be removed from the bottom of a cotton dress skirt by folding several thicknesses of cloth, laying the soiled parts upon them, and scrubbing with a nailbrush, 'soap, and water.