The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-14
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REMOVING SPOTS
FROM TABLE LINEN
By Rose Seelye-Miller.
" 1888 $685. ~


The spots commonest on table linen
are made with tea, eoTee ami choco-
late These spots may nearly always
oe taken out by means of Boiling water.
inns to be effective should be boiling
prlskly, 1t should be either rain or or
binary hard water; artesian water will
not do. The spot should be placed over
a bowl and the water poured through
until the spot pales or vanishes IF such
spots are attended to before the piece
mas been otherwise wet they will come
out. Ii they have been overlooked and
the color set by washing, the following
IS often effective. Mix the yolk of egg
tc paste with glycerine, spread the
spot Herewith and expose to extreme
sunshine
Most fruit stains are very easily re-
moved. 1t is not known by all that
strawberry stains wash out in clear cold
water Many grape stains VIII come out
IN ordinary washing. Almost all other
fruit stains may be taken out as above
by means of boiling water. Quite
often in using boiling water the stain
still shows after an application, but it
wishes out.
Iron rust is easily and quickly re-
moved by means of lemon juice and salt
Wet thoroughly with the juice. cover
with salt and expose to elearest sun
shine. Every part must be reaehe by
sun rays.
If the piece is embroidered in colors.
these should not be wet and should be
covered with folded cloth while the
treated portion is exposed to the sun.
Ink spots, many of them, will wash
out if taken at once, while wet, in clear
cold water. All yield to soaking in
buttermilk and then washing. Many
times the milk does not seem effective,
but the spots come out in the wash.
Soda will many times have the same
effect as sour milk.
Fly specks are sometimes very OBJ
stinate. If these are soaked in cold
water they come out in ordinary wash
ing. Hot water sets them so they are
sometimes almost ineradicable.
Various spots that are obstinate will
yield to an application of the common
household securing soap. There is the
effect of the roughness and these soaps
have bleaching property, too.
Peach and plum stains are among
the most difficult spots because they
show so little before wetting. Then
they turn dark These may be removed
by means of the old fashioned grass
bleaching. All spots come out of white
table linen if it is put upon the grass
in the spring when fruit trees are in
bloom. 1t is not tradition or fancy
/ that they disappear. Some very bad
spots may be removed easily by wet
ting and putting upon thawing snow in
the bright sunshine. This, too, gives a
whiteness unrivaled.
Chloride of lime is an effective
bleach; the only difficulty lies in it's
application by one not knowing its cor
rosive properties. On nearly all cans
of chloride of lime there is a recipe
for making what is called JaveIle
water. This is a bleach, and if made
and used according to directions it will
remove spots and will also bleach yell
lowed linen, as well as that only part
ly bleached.
Mildew may be treated with the chic
ride of lime by means of soaking in but,
termilk and spreading in bright sun and
| by grass bleaching There is nothing
known to remove very bad case Of
mildew.
| Grass stains yield to kerosene or al
| cohol
Machine grease (sewing machne)
should be washed in cold soap suds.
Paint is removed by means of spirits of
turpentine