How To Remove Iron Rust

Lemon juice and salt mixed together may be spread upon the spots and the article laid in the sun. Repeat the operation if necessary. Starch may be spread upon the article instead of salt. A more convenient way is to have salts of lemon in a bottle dissolved in water enough to cover, and moisten the rusty spots with this. This will not rot the goods. When dry wash out in clear water.

How To Remove Fruit Stains

Dip the injured portion of cloth in a solution or 1 part of chloride of lime to 12 parts of soft water. Rub it slightly and then rinse.

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Pour boiling water through the stained parts several times. If this does not remove it, cover the wet spot with a paste of starch and spread in the sun. Tea stains can be removed in the same way.

How To Remove Tar

Butter or lard will remove spots of tar and soap and water will afterward take out the grease stain. This process will answer for the hand as well.

How To Remove Ink Stains

Saturate the spot with spirits of turpentine and let it remain several hours; then rub between the hands. It will crumble away without injuring the color or texture of the fabric; then wash off with warm water. Fresh stains of ink can be taken out by soaking and washing in sweet skim milk, renewing it if need be.

How To Remove Ink From Carpets

Wet the spot with sweet milk and sprinkle on salt. Leave for two or three hours and then wash with clear water.

Acid Stains, lemon, etc., can usually be removed by ammonia. If the color still fails to return, a touch of chloroform, will then restore it in almost all cases. Color that has been changed by perspiration can usually be restored by ammonia, always on black goods.

Color Destroyed by White-wash can be restored by being immediately washed in strong vinegar.

How To Remove Paint Spots

To Remove Paint Spots from woolen cloth or broadcloth wipe off instantly with a piece of cloth; if a coat, take the lining, if nothing else is convenient. The same will apply to silk. If these methods fail, apply pure spirits of turpentine.

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Lay a many-folded sheet on the table and lay the stained part of the material on that (silk, cloth or any other goods may be treated in the same manner),and rubbing soap on a toothbrush dip the brush in warm water and wash the paint away, the sheet absorbing the water. When the paint is extracted move the material to a dry part of the sheet; rinse the brush and with clear warm water wash the soap away. Rub with a dry towel both sides of the material and hang up to dry. If the paint is long drying rub with turpentine and wash with soap and water, or if the colors are delicate wash with warm water alone. Chloroform may be used instead of turpentine.

"Bellowed Linen that has been laid away can be bleached by > letting it soak in buttermilk two or three days.