(a) Spread stain over a bowl, moisten stain and rub on it some salts of lemon
or oxalic acid. The latter is the stronger, both are poison. Then pour through
boiling water until stain disappears. Rinse in ammonia water and then in clear
water.
(b) Javelle water is also sometimes effective. For a much stained article
use a solution and soak the article in it as above for fruit and wine.
(c) Cream of tartar with boiling water will sometimes remove iron rust.
Ink:
(a) If wet, soak in milk (warm, cold, sweet or sour), or buttermilk. As
the milk becomes discolored replace with fresh until stain disappears, Wash in
cold water and dry in the sun.
(b) Sometimes lemon juice and salt, used as for fruit and wine, are effective-
(c) If dry use oxalic acid or javelle water as. for iron rust.
Tea and Coffee:
(a) If wet, stretch over a bowl and pour boiling water through slowly until
stain disappears.
(b) If dry, soak stain in cold water first, then put over a bowl, spread borax
over stain and pour boiling water through it.
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Grease:
(1.) If on fast colours use soap and hot water.
(2.) On cloth, scrape with a knife, place blotting paper below and above and
use a hot iron, replace with fresh blotting paper as the old becomes greasy.
Another method is to cover the spot with a paste of French chalk and turpen-
tine, leave for twenty-four hours and then scrape off.
Omit the turpentine for delicate fabrics.
(3.) Rub with turpentine, chloroform, ether, or gasoline, and then hang in
the open air. Use cheesecloth to apply these, then burn cheesecloth. Chloroform
is useful for delicate materials and colors. Naptha soap will remove grease
from white cotton. ‘
Axle Grease, Pitch and Tar:
Rub the stained part with lard or butter. Leave for half an hour, then scrape
off the grease. Rub with cheescloth dipped in soapy water or turpentine on
both sides of stain, then rub dry with clean cheesecloth.
Vaseline:
Sponge with ether or turpentine.
Paint Stain:
Rub with cheesecloth dipped in turpentine until stain disappears.
Use gasoline or alcohol for delicate-coloured articles.
’ Blood:
Soak in cold salted water, then rub out in cold water, afterwards wash in hot
water with soap.
Perspiration:
Wash with hot water and Naptha soap. If obstinate, soak ten minutes in
javelle water solution first.
Green Stains from Grass, etc., also Iodine:
Soak in alcohol, chloroform or kerosene, then wash in hot water with Naptha
soap.
Mildew:
(1.) Moisten stain with lemon juice, cover with soft soap, sprinkle with
salt, keep moist and expose to the sun. Repeat until stain disappears.
(2.) An article mildewed all over, soak in javelle water, one part to four of
water. Then rinse in clear water and dry in the sun.
Scorch:
(1.) Wet the scorch and expose to the sun, keeping scorch wet; or
(2.) Soak with the following mixture and expose to the sun:
Scorch Mixture: Two onions, one pint vinegar, quarter pound fuller’s earth
and quarter pound washing soda✪ Scorch Mixture.
Peel, slice, and chop onions, add to them the vinegar, fuller’s earth and soda;
stir and simmer fifteen minutes. Strain, bottle and label. This mixture will keep
for years.
The sun is the best bleacher and all stains, if exposed to the sun and Kept
wet, will fade in time.
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GIRLS’ HOME MANUAL
CHAPTER VI.
A WEEKLY FAMILY WASH
Suggested Order of Work:
Tuesday, if possible, is the best day to choose for washing, as this leaves
Monday for preparation; but'a housekeeper has to settle the matter of time for
herself, and has also to take into consideration the amount of washing and the
weather.
(1.)
Monday.
See that a supply of softened water, soap, soap jelly, soda, starch and
blue, etc., are on hand.
(2.)
(3.)
(4.)
(5.)
(1.)
(2.)
(3.)
Sort the clothes.
Remove stains.
Mend holes (except stockings, these may be roughly drawn together).
Put white clothes to soak.
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(a) Spread stain over a bowl, moisten stain and rub on it some salts of lemon or oxalic acid. The latter is the stronger, both are poison. Then pour through boiling water until stain disappears. Rinse in ammonia water and then in clear water.
(b) Javelle water is also sometimes effective. For a much stained article use a solution and soak the article in it as above for fruit and wine.
(c) Cream of tartar with boiling water will sometimes remove iron rust.
Ink:
(a) If wet, soak in milk (warm, cold, sweet or sour), or buttermilk. As the milk becomes discolored replace with fresh until stain disappears, Wash in cold water and dry in the sun.
(b) Sometimes lemon juice and salt, used as for fruit and wine, are effective- (c) If dry use oxalic acid or javelle water as. for iron rust.
Tea and Coffee:
(a) If wet, stretch over a bowl and pour boiling water through slowly until stain disappears.
(b) If dry, soak stain in cold water first, then put over a bowl, spread borax over stain and pour boiling water through it.
Grease:
(1.) If on fast colours use soap and hot water.
(2.) On cloth, scrape with a knife, place blotting paper below and above and use a hot iron, replace with fresh blotting paper as the old becomes greasy.
Another method is to cover the spot with a paste of French chalk and turpentine, leave for twenty-four hours and then scrape off.
Omit the turpentine for delicate fabrics.
(3.) Rub with turpentine, chloroform, ether, or gasoline, and then hang in the open air. Use cheesecloth to apply these, then burn cheesecloth. Chloroform is useful for delicate materials and colors. Naptha soap will remove grease from white cotton. ‘
Axle Grease, Pitch and Tar:
Rub the stained part with lard or butter. Leave for half an hour, then scrape off the grease. Rub with cheesecloth dipped in soapy water or turpentine on both sides of stain, then rub dry with clean cheesecloth.
Vaseline:
Sponge with ether or turpentine.
Paint Stain:
Rub with cheesecloth dipped in turpentine until stain disappears.
Use gasoline or alcohol for delicate-coloured articles.
’ Blood:
Soak in cold salted water, then rub out in cold water, afterwards wash in hot water with soap.
Perspiration:
Wash with hot water and Naptha soap. If obstinate, soak ten minutes in javelle water solution first.
Green Stains from Grass, etc., also Iodine:
Soak in alcohol, chloroform or kerosene, then wash in hot water with Naptha soap.
Mildew:
(1.) Moisten stain with lemon juice, cover with soft soap, sprinkle with salt, keep moist and expose to the sun. Repeat until stain disappears.
(2.) An article mildewed all over, soak in javelle water, one part to four of water. Then rinse in clear water and dry in the sun.
Scorch:
(1.) Wet the scorch and expose to the sun, keeping scorch wet; or
(2.) Soak with the following mixture and expose to the sun:
Scorch Mixture: Two onions, one pint vinegar, quarter pound fuller’s earth and quarter pound washing soda.
Peel, slice, and chop onions, add to them the vinegar, fuller’s earth and soda; stir and simmer fifteen minutes. Strain, bottle and label. This mixture will keep
for years. The sun is the best bleacher and all stains, if exposed to the sun and Kept wet, will fade in time.
A WEEKLY FAMILY WASH
Suggested Order of Work:
Tuesday, if possible, is the best day to choose for washing, as this leaves Monday for preparation; but'a housekeeper has to settle the matter of time for herself, and has also to take into consideration the amount of washing and the
weather.
(1.)
Monday.
See that a supply of softened water, soap, soap jelly, soda, starch and
blue, etc., are on hand.
(2.) (3.) (4.) (5.)
(1.) (2.) (3.)
Sort the clothes.
Remove stains.
Mend holes (except stockings, these may be roughly drawn together). Put white clothes to soak.
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