cold water facilitates the
action of the boiling water.

Rub iron rust with lemon and salt, and lay in the sun, repeating until
the spot disappears. This is usually all that is necessary, but if the
stain is very stubborn, spread over a bowl containing one quart of
water and one teaspoonful of borax. Apply hydrochloric acid, drop by
drop, to the stain until it brightens, then dip at once into the water.

If an ink stain is fresh, soak in milk, renewing the milk when it
becomes discolored. If very dry and well set use lemon and salt or the
Javelle-water treatment.

Mildew, which results from allowing damp clothes to lie in the basket
for a length of time, is obstinate and difficult to remove. Boil in
salted buttermilk; or wet with lemon juice and stand in the sun. If
these treatments are ineffectual, resort to diluted oxalic acid or
Javelle water, a careful rinsing to follow the application. Grass
stains may be treated in a like manner, or washed in alcohol. Ammonia
and water, applied while the stain is fresh, will often remove it.

Remove paint stains with benzene or turpentine, machine oil with cold
water and Ivory soap, vaseline with turpentine.

Peroxide of hydrogen applied to blood stains while they are still moist
causes them to disappear at once. Soaking in cold water till the
stains turn brown, then washing in warm water with soap is the usual
treatment. If the stain is on thick goods, make a paste of raw starch
and apply several times.

Pencil marks on linen should be rubbed off with an eraser, as hot water
sets them.

Soap and water is the best agent for removing stains from colored
goods, _provided the color is fast_. Moisten the article, soap the
stain, and after a few minutes wash alternately with oil of turpentine
and water. If not satisfactorily removed make a mixture of yolk of egg
and oil of turpentine, spread on the stain, allow to dry, scrape off,
and wash thoroughly in hot water. Tampering with stains on garments
which are not warranted "fast color" is very risky, and often leaves
the second state of the garments worse than the first.

SOAKING AND WASHING

The prologue of sorting the clothes and removing the stains being at an
end, we are ready for the real "business" of the wash day--the washing
itself--unless the laundress prefers to soak the clothes overnight. If
so, dampen, soap well, particularly the most soiled spots, roll up and
pack in the bottom of the tub, pour o