Black Lace

1/2 cup rain water, or very soft spring water.

1 teaspoonful borax.

1 tablespoonful spirits of wine.

Squeeze the tumbled rusty lace through this four times, then rinse in a cup of hot water in which a black kid glove has been boiled. Pull out the edges of the lace until almost dry; then press for two days between the leaves of a heavy book.

How To Sponge Black Worsted Dresses

Sponge on the right side with a strong tea made of fig leaves, and iron on the wrong.

This process restores lustre and crispness to alpaca, bombazine, etc.

How To Clean Very Dirty Black Dresses

2 parts soft water to 1 part alcohol, or if there be paint spots upon the stuff, spirits turpentine. Soap a sponge well, dip in the mixture, and rub, a breadth at a time, on both sides, stretching it upon a table. Iron on the wrong side, or that which is to be inside when the stuff is made up. Sponge off with fair water, hot but not scalding, before you iron. Iron while damp.

How To Remove Stains From Marble

Make a mortar of unslacked lime and very strong lye.

Cover the spot thickly with it and leave it on for six weeks. Wash it off perfectly clean, and rub hard with a brush dipped in a lather of soap and water. Polish with a smooth, hard brush.

Iron Mould

Is as nearly ineradicable as it is possible for stain to be. Try moistening the part injured with ink, and while this is wet, rub in muriatic acid diluted with five times its weight of water. I have heard that the old and new stain can sometimes be removed together by this operation.

Mildew

Is likewise obstinate. If anything will extract it, it is lemon-juice mixed with an equal weight of salt, powdered starch, and soft soap. Rub on thickly and lay upon the grass in the hot sun ; renewing the application two or three times a day until the spot fades or comes out.

I have also used salt wet with tomato-juice, often renewed, laying the article stained upon the grass. Sometimes the stain was taken out, sometimes not.

Ink

While the stains are yet wet upon the carpet, sponge them with skim-milk thoroughly. Then wash out the milk with a clean sponge dipped again and again in fair water, cold. Exchange this presently for warm ; then rub dry with a cloth. If the stain is upon any article of clothing, or table, or bed linen, wash in the milk well, afterward in the water.

Dry ink stains can be removed from white cloth by oxalic acid, or lemon-juice and salt.

Stains of Acids and Alkalies. Treat acid stains with hartshorn; alkaline with acids.

For instance, if the color be taken out of cloth by whitewash, wash with strong vinegar.

Grease Spots

1 quart boiling water. 1 oz. pulverized borax. 1/2 oz. of gum camphor.

Shake up well and bottle. It is excellent for removing grease spots from woolens.

Cure For Burns

One-third part linseed oil. Two-thirds lime water.

Shake up well; apply and wrap in soft linen.

Until you can procure this keep the part covered with wood-soot mixed to a soft paste with lard, or, if you have not these, with common molasses.