Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-24
Removing Rain Spots and Ink Spots.

Very often women's outer garments,
such as suits and jackets, of broadcloth
or other materials, become spotted from
the rain. The remedy is to dip cotton
cloth in water, wiring it and lay 1t on the
garment, ironing with a warm iron until
the entire garment has been gone over.
This will not only completely remedy
the trouble, but will prevent its recur-
renee.
lux spots are always more or less diff
cult to remove. Much, Of course, dc
ponds upon the kind Of ink, the color of
the goods and even the nature of the ma
teral. On white cotton, linen or wooden
goods, an application of warm oxalic
acid water, one tablespoonful to a tea
cupful of water, will frequently accom-
pish the desired result. Printers ink
usually may be removed from WOODEN
goods by a vigorous application of gsso-
line.
Glue may generally be removed from
garments by sponging the ga. aent with
warm water. A little sal soda added to
the warm water will be more effectual.
Grass stains, as rule, can be removed
from linen by simply washing in warm
added. Grass stains may be removed
from white serge or wooden garments by
washing in warm soda water, one-half
pound Of soda to three gallons Of water.
Rinse and pass through the soda water,
or better, soak the garment In solution
of one ounce of oxalic acid and one-half
pint of acetic acid to six gallons of warm
water. After this, give one cold rinse
and dry and iron az usual.
Acid stains, IL fresh, will entirely dis
appear by an application of strong am
monia, or by moistening the spot and
rubbing it with q lump of sal soda.
Nitric acid stains, always of an orange
color, on black garments, are treated
with strong alksli, such as ammonia,
full strength, or sal soda. II of long
standing, they should afterward be treat
cd with nitrate of silver.
Lye and lime stains may be removed
from linen by simply washing. They
may be removed from cotton, wooden
and silk goods by treating the material
with dilute acetic or hydrochloric acid,
and finally washing with water.
Blood stains usually may be entirely
removed from any material by laying on
thick coating of common starch. The
starch should be mixed as for laundry
use, laid on quite wet and allowed to re-
main for several hours. 1t should be
finally removed with weak solution of
soda water, a tablespoonful to a cupful
of water. To remove bloo1 stains from
wooden goods of any color, l brush the
material we'll with solution OF pure
gasoline with little soluble soap dis
solved in it.
To remove varnish or oil paint from
linen, cotton and silk, first wash with
turpentine, then with benzine or gaso-
line and finally with soap and water.
Chamois or buokskin gloves may be
dry cleaned with gasoline and soap, or
they may be stretched on the band or on
a wooden hand and rubbed with at le
bread crumbs or with brush dipped in
a mixture of equal parts of .uller's
earth and powdered alum. Another
good method is 10 wash the gloves in q
lukewarm solution of CASTLE soap, and
pull them into shape on the hands with
out wringing. Then rub them with pipe
clay or yellow ochre or lumber, or a
mixture OF these made into q p ste of
the desired shade. The gloves should
be dried rubbing them we'll 90 as to
smooth them, and pulled into shape.
When they are entirely dry, brush out
the superauous color and iron them with
n warm not hot IRON