347. To Remove Grease from Cloth

347.    To Remove Grease from Cloth. Take 1 quart lime; add thereto as much water as will dissolve the lime and leave about 1 quart clear water after it has been well stirred and settled. Let it stand about two hours, and then pour off the clear liquid into another vessel. Now add to it 1/2 an ounce of pearlash; stir it well, and, when settled, bottle it for use. This liquor is to be diluted with water, to suit the strength or delicacy of the color of the cloth. It is applied with a piece of coarse sponge, rubbing out the grease, and applying clear water afterwards.

This is one of the best receipts known for the extraction of grease; but it is destructive to certain vegetable colors.

348. To Remove Grease Spots from Cloth

348.    To Remove Grease Spots from Cloth. Soft soap, and fuller's earth, of each 1/2 pound; beat well together in a mortar, and form into cakes. The spot, first moistened with water, is rubbed with a cake, and allowed todry,when it is well rubbed with alittle warm water, and rinsed or rubbed off clean.

349. Scouring Balls

349.     Scouring Balls. Dry fuller's earth, moistened with the juice of lemons; add a small quantity of pearl ashes, and a little soft soap; knead the whole well together into a thick elastic paste; form it into small balls and dry them in the sun. When used, moisten the spot on the clothes with water; then rub it with the ball, and let the spot dry in the sun. "When washed with pure water the spot will disappear.

350. To Remove Grease from Cloth or Silk

350.    To Remove Grease from Cloth or Silk. Separate the yolk of an egg from the white as perfectly as possible. Then stretch the fabric on a board, and with a soft clothes brush dip into the yolk, and rub the spot with it until the grease seems loosened. The yolk will not injure the most delicate colors, but the rubbing may, if too severe. Then rinse with warm rain water, rubbing the edges with a damp cloth, and clapping the whole between dry towels. If the stain is not quite gone, repeat the process. It will not do so well for fabrics mixed with cotton or linen.

351. To Remove Grease from Silk or Velvet

351.    To Remove Grease from Silk or Velvet. Rub the spots on the silk lightly and rapidly with a clean soft cotton rag dipped in chloroform, and the grease will immediately disappear without injuring the color of the silk. Repeat the operation if necessary. Be careful to rub the article rapidly and lightly, then finish with a clean dry cloth. If these precautions are not taken, a slight stain is apt to be the result. Very highly rectified benzine, such as is prepared by the first-class druggists, will also immediately remove grease from the most delicate colored silks.

352. To Remove Grease from Silk

352.    To Remove Grease from Silk. Take French chalk finely scraped, and put it on the grease spot, holding it near the fire, or over a warm iron reversed, or on a water-plate in which is boiling water. This will cause the grease to melt, and the French chalk will absorb it, and it may then be brushed or rubbed off; or, put a little powdered French chalk on the spot, cover it with a piece of white blotting-paper, and over that a piece of brown wrapping paper, and apply a hot flat-iron. If any grease remains, proceed as before, until it is all extracted. The French chalk is a fine soluble powder of a dry absorbent quality, acting upon silks the same as fuller's earth does upon cloth.

The above plans may be adopted when you desire to extract the grease immediately; but if time is not an object, proceed as follows:

Sprinkle pulverized French chalk upon the spot and put the article in a dark place, and in a few days the grease will entirely disappear. We think this last method the best, as the heat from the iron will sometimes injure silk of a delicate tint.