Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — AROUND THE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE HOUSE.

Tomatoes or lemon juice make bad gtains, often upon one’s clothing. This discoloration can be easily aud entirely removed by washing in a weak solution of ammonia. Marble is a veiv difficult article to clean if it is stained in such a way that the stain has sunk into the stone. Slight stains may be removed with a pumice stone or with vigorous scrubbing. Greasy stains are best removed with a paste of fuller's earth applied in the same manner it is applied to wall paper. Ii is said that stains of ink on marble may be removed by hydrochloric acid, which is a powerful poison, and which must be washed off with water almost as soon as it is applied, to prevent its eating into the stone.