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Removal of Spots and Stains: Crape

Crape, Mourning, and Other Black Goods.-Black dress goods may be washed by observing the same caution as for other colored fabrics, whether cotton, linen, wool, or silk. To remove stains before laundering, apply a solution of 1 part of alcohol and 2 parts of water with a soft cloth, sponge, or soft bristle brush.

To remove paint, apply spirits of turpentine; for grease, apply benzine or gasoline; for mud stains, rub the spot with a piece of raw potato.

To Remove Gloss. - Sponge with a saturated solution of borax and water.

Afterwards sponge with clear water.

Or boil half a handful of fig leaves in a quart of water down to a pint.

Strain and apply the clear liquor.

Crape Lace. - Dissolve a square inch of sheet glue in a pint of boiling water, add a pint of skim milk, and dip the lace in this while boiling hot.

When cool enough to handle, remove, stretch, and clap the lace between the hands. Pin it to a linen cloth and stretch the cloth tent fashion to dry in the shade.

White Spots.-If white spots or light-colored stains appear on black garments, apply India ink, marking ink, or common ink with a camel'shair brush. Put a piece of blotting paper underneath the stain to absorb the surplus ink.

To Revive Faded Colors. - In 3 quarts of boiling water stir + pound of green vitriol, 1 pound of logwood chips, and pound of bruised galls.

Boil gently for 3 hours and strain through cheese cloth.

Or mix oxgall, 4 ounces; logwood, 1 ounce; green vitriol, ounce; iron filings, ounce; sumac, ounce, and vinegar, 1 quart.

Or make a simple solution of logwood, boiling 2 ounces of logwood in 1 gallon of water down to 1 quart.

To apply any of the above, dilute with sufficient hot water to cover the articles, and boil for half an hour.

If the infusion of logwood is used alone, remove the articles, add an ounce of sulphate of iron, and boil for half an hour. Hang them up without wringing in a shady place until they cease to drip. Then rinse them in cold water, let them dry, and rub gently with a brush moistened with a little olive oil.

To Clean and Scour Woolen Goods. -Remove all dirt and dust by shaking and brushing the articles. Remove grease spots with turpentine, benzine, or gasoline. Make a strong suds of hard white or curd soap with water, and to each gallon add a tablespoonful of oxgall. Apply vigorously with a fairly stiff nailbrush. Rinse by sponging with warm water containing salt, and dry by rubbing with a piece of clean flannel.

Or, for garments which will not lose their shape, rinse in clear cold water and hang up to dry.

Sponging with stale lager beer will give some stiffness and gloss to the surface.

Or go over the surface with a brush slightly moistened with olive oil.

To Dry-clean Woolen Cloth.-Remove all spots and stains, and cover the garment with clean, damp sand, with which may be mixed a quantity of French chalk. Rub over the surface of the sand with the hands to work it into the texture of the fabric, and allow the garment to dry. Afterwards brush off the sand. To Clean Scarlet Cloth. - Wash in bran water, and rinse in clear water containing a tablespoonful of solution of tin to each gallon.

Or add a small quantity of scarlet dye to the last rinsing water.

To Clean Light-colored Worsteds. -For delicate light-brown or buff colors apply pipe clay mixed with water to the consistency of milk.

Cover the surface with this by means of a sponge or brush. Brush off when dry.

CLEANING AND CARE OF GLOVES To Clean Gloves. - For cleaning gloves, gasoline, benzine, naphtha, and soap used with either milk or water, fuller's earth, with or without pow- "Wash Them in Gasoline. dered alum, cream of tartar, pipe clay, French chalk, bread crumbs, and corn meal are all recommended; for fruit and acid stains, ammonia; for ink stains, oxalic acid; and various compounds of these substances.

Gasoline. Draw the gloves on to the hands and wash them in gasoline in the same fashion as the hands are washed in water. Wipe off surplus gasoline with a piece of flannel, and allow the gloves to partially dry on the hands. Afterwards hang on a line to dry in the sun. The soiled parts of the gloves may be rubbed with any good white hard soap during this process. But they should not afterwards be washed in soapsuds, as it shrinks and wrinkles them. For light glacé kid gloves, draw the gloves on to the hands and with a flannel cloth apply a paste composed of flour and gasoline. Rub with a clean, dry cloth until quite dry.

Turpentine. Before the discovery of gasoline, gloves were cleaned by washing in spirits of turpentine in the same way as they are now washed in gasoline. Turpentine is to be preferred when the gloves are stained with paint or resinous substances. large fruit jar full of benzine, screw Benzine. - Place the gloves in a on the lid and let them soak for twenty minutes or more, shaking the jar vigorously at intervals. Take them out and examine for dirt spots, which may be removed by rubbing with benzine on a flannel rag. Afterwards hang them up to dry in the open air.

To remove the odor of benzine, professional cleaners dry articles cleaned in this manner in a drying room at a temperature of about 200°.

But this odor will pass off after a time.

Or draw the gloves on the hands, dip a flannel rag in benzine, and allow it to become nearly dry. While slightly damp, moisten the gloves with this by rubbing the hands with it as if with a towel.

Or take part of a loaf of bread slightly moist, or dry bread crumbs, they are clean. Change the crumbs and rub lightly over the gloves until as they become soiled. Repeat if necessary.