ood to
remove stains on colored silks. Spots of common or durable ink can be
removed by saturating them with lemon-juice, and rubbing on salt, then
putting them where the sun will shine on them hot, for several hours. As
fast as it dries, put on more lemon-juice and salt. When lemon juice
cannot be obtained, citric acid is a good substitute. Iron mould may be
removed in the same way. Mildew and most other stains can be removed by
rubbing on soft soap and salt, and placing it where the sun will shine
on it hot. Where soap and salt will not remove stains, lemon-juice and
salt will generally answer. The above things will only remove stains in
warm, clear weather, when the sun is hot. Sulphuric acid, diluted with
water, is very effectual in removing fruit stains. Care should be taken
not to have it so strong as to eat a hole in the garment, and as soon as
the stain is out, it should be rinsed in pearl-ash water, and then in
fair water. Colored cotton goods, that have common ink spilt on them,
should be soaked in lukewarm sour milk.

412. _Directions for Washing Calicoes._

Calico clothes, before they are put in water, should have the grease
spots rubbed out, as they cannot be seen when the whole of the garment
is wet. They should never be washed in very hot soap suds; that which is
mildly warm will cleanse them quite as well, and will not extract the
colors so much. Soft soap should never be used for calicoes, excepting
for the various shades of yellow, which look the best washed with soft
soap, and not rinsed in fair water. Other colors should be rinsed in
fair water, and dried in the shade. When calicoes incline to fade, the
colors can be set by washing them in lukewarm water, with beef's gall,
in the proportion of a tea-cup full to four or five gallons of water.
Rinse them in fair water--no soap is necessary, without the clothes are
very dirty. If so, wash them in lukewarm suds, after they have been
first rubbed out in beef's gall water. The beef's gall can be kept
several months, by squeezing it out of the skin in which it is enclosed,
adding salt to it, and bottled and corked tight. The water that potatoes
has been boiled in is an excellent thing to wash black calicoes in. When
there are many black garments to wash in a family, it is a good plan to
save, during the week, all the water in which potatoes are boiled. The
following method is said to set the colors of calicoes so that they will
not fade by subsequent was