The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-25
STAIN REMOvERS.
Enough to Cover All Kinds Of
Your Needs. = !.
INK, FRUIT, WINE, GRASS.


Beautiful Table Linens, Silk Shirt
and White FlannsIs From the elish
y Of Spots. .,. l...,. ..s
Ink is the stain with which you come
most frequently In contact and yet car
never remember how to dissolve.
Milk, salt and lemon juice, oxalit
jayelle water. all remove inh.
Milk is applicable to a new stain
fabric and color delicate. Place spot
In bowl of milk. Allow 1t to remain
until milk is colored. If necessary
change milk once or twice. When
stain has been removed wash out milk
Salt and lemon juice remove ink from
tougher fabrics-cotton and linen
white only, stain old or new. Sprin-
kle spot with salt, squeeze on lemon
Juice. place in sunshine and wash when
stain is removed. Oxalic acid is ap.
plicable to any material Of any color,
no matter how delicate. 1t is Of es.
pecial use on colored silk, stain old or
new. Procure cents worth of oxalic
acid crystals; dissolve these in two cup
fuls Of warm water; add tablespoon
full of acetic acid, II possible. Apply
with eye dropper to spot; If color
should leave the fabric apply chloro-
form, and 1t will be restored at once.
Oxalic acid will remove an iron ink
only. The acid unites with such ink
to form a new compound which Is SOL
uble in water, a compound which will
easily wash out and be colorless. If
the ink Is not an iron ink oxalic acid
will fail to remove 1t. In such case
use tartaric acid for fresh stains, any
fabric, any color (colored silk except
ed). Buy tartaric acid crystals. Make
It into solution. Use a tablespoonful
Of acid in two cupfuls Of warm water.
Apply with an eye dropper. Hydro
chloric acid and javelle water-use
these only on the most stubborn stain
after all other reagents fail. Place
stained portion over bowl Of diluted
ammonia. Apply acid or javelle water
with eye dropper. After each drop OF
acid touches the stain press the cloth
In the bowl Of ammonia. This will
prevent the acid from harming the
thread Of the fabric. Continue until
stain disappears. ..~
Boiling water, salt and boiling water
or milk, tartaric acid, alcohol and
chloroform will remove fruit and wine
stains. If the stain Is fresh place spot
ted portion over bowl and pour boil
ing water through 1t. The water must
be boiling. If ineffective put salt on
spot and use again. If spot still per-
sists use boiling milk and salt. Tar
taric acid made as directed above will
remove wine or fruit stains from any
fabric, any color. colored silk excepted
Apply as usual with an eye dropper to
spot. Alcohol will also remove these
stains. II the alcohol should remove
the color Of the material with the stain
apply chloroform to restore it.
Washing soda, naphtha soap, ammo
mia, alcohol and paste of molasses
and -four will remove grass stains.
Where grass has stained white flannel
trousers dissolve washing soda in wa
ter, one cupful Of soda, two cupfuls Of
water. Heat the solution. Make q
suds Of naphtha soap. immense stain
and gently rub. This process failing,
II the stain Is fresh use ammonia and
water. Grass stains also wash out In
alcohol. A paste of molasses and -four
spread on grass stain will remove It
without affecting the color. Allow the
paste to remain on spot several hours.