The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-13
To Remove Stains.

This is emphatically the season of fruit
stains and mildew. Fortunately, too. it
is the season of grass bleaching and hot
sunshine.
A list Of the most common stains with
the treatment which will remove each,
is a convenient clipping to paste into the
tlyleaf of a cook book, or other place
of ready reference.
Fruit stains of all kinds will come out
Of white goods if they are taken in time
and treated exactly right. Raspberry
and strawberry stains will disappear if
boiling hot soft water is poured over
them. Oxalic acid will remove all other
be kept in the laundry. As it is very poi
sonous, it should be plainly labeled and
kept out of the way of children. Get the
acid in crystalized form, put in bottle
and pour cold water over it. If part re-
mains undissolved, add water as the so
luton is used. 1t is sure to remove fruit.
leather or ink stains, Touch only thr
when they disappear, as the acid will at
tack the fabric if left upon it. Now wet
the spot in ammonia and give final
rinsing.
For lace or muslin add little salsoda
or ammonia to the first rinsing water
Dilute the acid at first, and make it
stronger if necessary.
Rolling hot soft water will remove tea
/ coffee or chocolate stains. If tea stains
are of long standing. soak in glycerint
| and wash the latter out with cold water
Use diluted ammonia for orange and
lemon stains.
Make a thick paste of lemon or pie
plant juice and salt and starch for red
! iron rust, and expose to the sun. II
one application is not effectual, try again
OXallc acid is just as sure for black iron
rust.
Grass stains should be rubbed with mo-
lasses thoroughly and then washed out rs
usual. Another treatment is to rub with
alcohol and then wash in water.
| with juice of lemon and the spot thor
covered with powdered horax and PLACED
in the sun. Repeat until the spot is re
| moved
If this treatment does not serve to re
| move the stain, or if the fabric is coloreo
| and so cannot be treated with the lemon
| juice, oxalic acid may be used as for ole
fruit stains. Still another treatment il
| to apply mixture of two parts tartai
| and one part powdered alum; this latter
| is good for a variety of stains which fai
| under other methods.
Ink that is freshly split upon carpet
| should be covered with common or coarse
salt or Indian meal. If all the stain is
| not absorbed rub with lemon juice.
N1ildew is easily taken out of white
goods with chloride of lime, but it cannot
| be used on colored clothes. Put a small
| amount of lime in cold water and stir nm
til it is entirely dissolved; then strain
| through cheese cloth and immense the
mildewed article. Work up and down
and as soon as the spots have bleachci
out rinse it through three or four water:
and dry.
Wagon grease, pitch or tar may be re
moved by spreading lard upon the spo
rubbing it well in and then washing on
as usual.
| Cover wine stains with salt and lay II
the sun.
Nothing will remove blood stains bet
ter than cold soap suds, to which kero
sene has been added. Kerosene will ais,
remove tar or fresh paint.
Machine oil or vaseline will come OIL
easily when washed with soap and COLI
water.
Colors which have been changed by til,
application of acids may he restored b.
/ sponging with chloroform or ammonia
while colors changed by alkalies may b.
given an acid treatment. "