(For White and Fast Colors Only - Otherwise Consult Your Cleaner)

Blood Or Meat Juice

Saturate the stained part with kerosene oil and then dip in boiling water. Use Clorox as per directions.

Chocolate Or Coffee

1. Stretch the stained part over a bowl and pour boiling water through it. 2. Rub with pure glycerine, then wash in soft water. Do not use soap, as this will fix the stain. Use Clorox as per directions.

Candle Wax (Colored)

Place blotting paper, French chalk or white talcum powder on each side of stain and apply a warm iron. Brush out chalk or powder and remove color by sponging with alcohol or ether.

Fruit

Use boiling water and salts of lemon, or boiling water and oxalic acid. Pour through stained part which is stretched over a bowl.

Grass

1 Soak the stain in alcohol and rub. 2. Wet with cold water and rub cream of tartar in well, then wash out. Use Clorox as per directions.

Grease

Stretch stained part over a firm pad of toweling or other absorbent goods and rub with any of the following applied with woolen cloth: Turpentine, benzine, ether or chloroform.

Ink

Dampen in cold water, dip in a solution of boiling oxalic acid (two teaspoons oxalic acid in one glass of water), rinse and wash in soap solution. Use Clorox as per directions.

Iron Rust

Moisten stain with ammonia, then apply salts of lemon or oxalic acid; after effervescence appears, dip in boiling water.

Mucus (Handkerchiefs)

Soak in salt water (two tablespoons to one quart of water), wash out and boil. Use Clorox as per directions.

Machine Oil

1. Soak in cold water, then wash out with soap. 2. Soak in cold water and borax, then wash.

Milk

Wash in cold water, then warm water and soap.

Perspiration

Immerse in soap solution and set in sunshine for several hours.

Scorch

Soft water and strong sunshine will remove a slight scorch.

Use Clorox as per directions.

Shoe Stains On White Stockings

Soak in a solution of oxalic acid, then wash out in ammonia water.

Tea

Cover stain with common salt, cover with lemon juice and set in sunshine.

Use Clorox as per directions.

Vaseline

Place two thicknesses of blotting paper beneath stain, and moisten with benzine. Cover with two thicknesses of blotting paper and press with a warm - not hot - iron. Use care in working with benzine, as it is inflammable.

Egg

Cold water, followed by hot water and soap, as in ordinary laundering.

Ice Cream

Sponge the stains thoroughly with water, followed by agents used in removing grease spots.

Iodine

Unstarched Materials: Sponge the stain with diluted ammonia. Then sponge with alcohol (if you can get it). Starched Materials: Soak the stains in diluted ammonia until they disappear, or boil the stained material for five or ten minutes.

Leather

Use an abundance of soap with thorough rubbing and proceed as in ordinary laundering.

Removing Gum

If the small son or daughter gets chewing gum on the best frock or suit, simply go over the gum with gasoline. It will crumble and can be washed off.

Paints

Sponge the stains with pure turpentine. If stains are not fresh, soften by moistening with ammonia and sprinkling with turpentine. Roll articles up for fifteen minutes, then wash in warm water and soap.

Water Color

Dip stained portion in gasoline and rub vigorously.

Salad Dressing

Soap and lukewarm water for washable materials.

Soot

First brush the stain, then place on absorbent powders such as Fuller's earth, French chalk, cornstarch, corn meal or salt; work around until they become soiled and brush them away. Then wash or sponge the stain.

Tomato Stain

Wash stains carefully, then moisten with lemon juice and expose to sun for several days. Sponge the stain with alcohol, which removes the green part of the stain. This is good for stains on wool or silk.