Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 13, Number 9, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 January 1943 — Lynn Says: [ARTICLE]

Lynn Says:

Spots and Stains: Holidays bring with them the inevitable stains on your linens. Since you can’t avoid stains, be prepared to know what to do about them. The American Institute of Laundering releases the information that the best way to take care of cranberry stains is to spread the cloth over a bowl and pour hot water on the stain from a height sufficient to allow the water to strike the cloth forcefully. It may interest you to know that raw cranberries weaken the strength of the cloth 25 per cent, whereas cooked cranberries only weaken it 21.1 per cent to 22.4 per cent. Coffee stains, cocoa, and fruit juice stains wash out if the cloth is allowed to stand in a solution of cold dilute potassium permanganate for a minute or two. If the stain remains, reduce it further with an application of warm sqlution of sodijum hydrosulfite. Milk, cream and ice cream stains are best treated by being soaked in cool suds before washing in hot water. For candle grease stains, use a solvent such as carbon tetrachloride, sponging it on with a small pad of cotton on the cloth under which a blotter has been placed. Pat lightly but do not rub solvent