3. STAINS AND SPOTS
Fruit and wine stains.—If fruit juice or wine is spilled at table, cover the spot with salt. The salt lessens the stain, saves the appearance of the table, and diverts attention from the culprit who did the spilling.
Boiling water poured through fruit or wine stains will usually remove them entirely. If it does not, try a weak solution of oxalic acid.
Coffee and tea.—Pour boiling water through the stains until they disappear.
Ink and iron rust.—Cover a spot of either ink or iron rust with salt wet with lemon juice and lay it in the sun. Repeat until the spot disappears.
Or, use salts of lemon and sunshine in the same way.
Or, if the material stained is white linen or cotton try chlorinated soda.
Sometimes ripe tomato will remove ink stains.
Sometimes soaking them in milk will take them out.