How To Remove Ink Stains From Silver

The tops and other portions of silver ink-stands frequently become deeply discolored with ink, which is difficult to remove by ordinary means. It may, however, be completely eradicated by making a little chloride of lime into a paste with water, and rubbing it upon the stains.

How To Take Ink Stains Out Of Mahogany

Dilute half a teaspoonful of the oil of vitriol with a large spoonful of water, and touch the stain with a camel's hair brush. Rub it off quickly, and repeat the process until the spot disappears.

How To Remove Fresh Ink From A Carpet

As soon as the ink has been spilled, take up as much as you can with a sponge, and then pour on cold water repeatedly, still taking up the liquid; next rub the place with a little wet oxalic acid or salt of sorrel, and wash it off immediately with cold water, then rub on some hartshorn.

How To Remove Ink-Spots From White Clothes

This must be done before the clothes are washed. Pick some tallow from the bottom of a clean mould candle, rub it hard on the ink-spots, and leave it sticking there in bits, till next day or longer. Then let the article be washed and boiled; and if it is merely common ink, the stain will entirely disappear. Of course, this remedy can only be used for white things, as colored clothes cannot be boiled without entirely fading them. We know it to be efficacious. The tallow must be rubbed on cold. A most effective preparation for removing ink-spots may be made by the following receipt. An ounce each of sal-ammonia and salt of tartar well mixed, must be put into a quart bottle, a pint of cold soft water added to them, and the whole well shaken for a quarter of an hour. The bottle may be then filled with water, shaken a little longer, and corked. Wet the marked linen effectually with this mixture, and repeat the process till the stains disappear.

Another Method Of Removing Ink-Spots

Dissolve some oxalic acid in water, wet the spot with the liquid, and the stain will almost instantly disappear. Wash the linen immediately in clean water, or the acid will injure the fabric.