The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-08-30
Removal of stains from Woven
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The following practical hinIS on this
subject, condensed by the Boston Journal
Of Chemistry from the best foreign sour.
ces, furnish much useful information in
small space
Mechanically attached particles may
be removed from all fabrics by beating,
brushing, and allowing water 70 fall from
an elevation upon the wrong side Of the
goods.
Mucilage, MucuS, Sugar JelIy.-Wash.
Ing with lukeWarm water will clear all
goods.
Fashion white goods Wash out
with soap and lie. Colored coltons
Wash with lukeWarm water and soap.
ColOred WooleRs LukeWarm soap and
waller, or ammonia. Silks: Clean care.
fully with benlole, ether, ammonia, mag
nesla, chalk, clay, or yOlk Of eggs.
Oil ColOrs, VarniSh, RoIin.-From all
lqbrics, except Silks Oil Of turpentine,
alcohol, benzole, and then soap. Silks
Benzole, ether, and soap very carefully,
and in very weak solution.
stearlne can DO removed from all goods
with strong, pure alchohol.
Vegetable Colors, Red Wine, Fruits,
Red Ink.-From white goods; Sulphur.
Gus yapor or hot chlorine water. Colored
cotton or wooden goods: Wash in luke.
warm water or soap, or amonia. Silk
may be treated in the same manner, but
very cautiously.
Alizarine Inks.-From white goods
Tartaric acid; the older the spot the more
concentrated. Colored cottons OF wooleu
goods: il color permits, dilute tartariC
acid. Silks: As before, but with great
caution.
Blood and Albuminous Spots.-simply
washing out With lukeWarn water, for
all kinds Of goods.
Rust, and Spots Of Ink Made Of Nut.
galls.-From white goods: Hot oxaliC
acid, dilute hydfochloric acid, and then
tin filings. Colored collOns or Woolens
Citric acid may be tried. White wool
ems: Dilute hydrochloric acid. Silks
Nothing can DO done without increasing
the evil.
Lime, Lye, and Alkalles in General
From white goods: Simply wash in wa
ter. Colored cottons, WooIens or silks
Much diluted citric acid, drop by droT
upon the moistened spot, 10 be spread
around by the finger.
=. Acids, Vinegar, Sour Wine, Fruit Jul
ces, Etc.-For white goods: Simply
washing; in the case Of fruit also with
hot chlorine water. According TO the
delicacy Of the material and the color
more or less diluted ammonia, TO b.
spread around on the spot, moistened
drop by drop, with the tip OF the finger
Tar, Wheel Grease, as also Fat, Resin
Carbonnceous Particles, and Wood Vim
egar.-From white goods Soap with OF
Of turpentine, varied with the action o
falling water. From cOlored cotton OF
woolens; Hogs lard to be rubbed on
and then soaped and allowed 10 remair
quietly; then washed alternately Will
water and oil ofturpenhne. From Silks
AS in the preceding, but more carefully
and instead OF turpentine benzole and 1
continual current Of water falling from {
height, and only upon the reversed sidI
Of the spot. For cleaning silks soiled ant
creased, but not thoroughly discolored BY
acids, ETC., the best agent is Ox.gall diluted
with lukeWarm water and strained. Bloot
and slbumen should simply be soaked il
cold water.
Superficial Loss ofSubstance by Scorch
ing,-FOr white goods: Rub over thor
oughly with pad dipped in hot CHLORINE
water, COlored cotiOns or woOlens
Whenever possible, color over, or raist
up the nap. With silks nothing can b.
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