Griggs courier., 1893-07-07
HINTS TO HousEkEEPERs.
Ways OF Removing Various Kinds Of Spots
and Stains.

HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
Ways OF Removing Various Kinds Of Spots
and Stains.
The careful housekeeper looks over
her laundry for the general wash to
discover stains Of coffee, tea, fruit,
mildew and paint, which are so fre.
quently. found and so often "set" by
being soaked in cold water before they
are seen. The stains of coffee and tea
so often found in tablecloths may be
easily and successfully treated if taken
in time, but if neglected leave a perma-
nent defacing mark. The treatment Of
these stains should always be kept in
mind. as they are Numerically oppo-
site to each other. For coffee stains,
soak the spots in clear, cold water for
at least twelve hours, adding little
borax to soften the water, and the SUBJ
sequent washing will generally remove
the stain. A tea stain. on the contrary,
must be taken out when it is fresh with
boiling water poured through the fab
ric.
Fruit stains, SO common in the sum-
mer time, may be removed by pouring
boiling water over them, when they
gradually disappear. Where they have
been washed into" the goods, they
may be removed If the fabric is pure
white by soaking them in sour milk for
several days and then rubbing them
with the hands in this liquid. If the
fabric is colored, especially if it is blue,
the greatest care should be taken in
using the sour milk, or the color will
certainly be removed as well as the
stain. As this is due to the acid in the
milk, it may sometimes be remedied by
IN application Of weak ammonia.
Alkai stains caused by lime or soda
may often be removed or the color re-
stored by an application of vinegar or
lemon juice. A grass stain is one of the
most difficult to get out of all the spots
that bother the patience Of the laun-
dress. A correspondent recommends
for this purpose solution Of chloride
Of tin, used warm and immediately
washed out with clear cold water. This
is q powerful remedy and should be
purchased from a druggist, who will
be able to furnish the solution in prop
er strength. Machine oil is very diff
cult to remove il it is not treated before
it is ''set." Each spot of oil should be
well soaked and then washed out in
clear cold water. Ink is one of the
most troublesome of stains if it is left
to dry in the fabric. If 1t is washed
out in clear cold water or in milk while
it is fresh, it may often be entirely re-
moved. Stylographic or strained ink,
which possesses no heavy particles to
hang in the fabric of the cloth, may al
ways be taken out in this way. Where
ink has become dried in the cloth, it
may be removed by soaking in the
sweet milk until the milk becomes
sour, and then leaving it in the sour
milk for two or three days.
A treatment of sour milk will gener-
ally remove mildew stains, but if they
are obstinate, tablespoonful of oxalic
acid and tablespoonful of lemon juice
dissolved in half q pint of rain water
will usually remove them, if the spots
are thoroughly rubbed in this solution
and then rinsed in clear cold water.
Iron rust stains may be easily removed
from white goods, even if they are of
long standing. They should be spread
across board or plate, wet with a
thick paste made of salt and lemon
juice, and spread out in the strong
summers sun, which will draw out the
spot in a wonderfully short time. Tar
spots must first be rubbed with lard or
-ome other grease and then washed out
with soap and water, or treated with
benzine. Paint stains are always re-
moved with turpentine.
Metallic Tin On Cloth
A new process, invented in Germany
allows brilliant and flexible stratum
of tin to be deposited upon cotton fiber.
A paste is first made of the powdered
zinc Of commerce and white of egg and
spread on the material by means of q
brush. This is then coagulated after
drying by current of superheated
steam and the tissue is then introduced
into bath of perchloride of tin. The
metal precipitates on the zinc in fine-
ly divided state and after rinsing and
drying the cloth it is passed through
cylinders or calendcrs, which give bril-
lance to the coat Of tin. Beautiful
metallic designs may be obtained il
this way. 1t is stated that the process
may be substituted entirely for the or