Here is still another way. Put a piece of blotting paper under the grease spot and another over it. Place a warm iron on the upper one. After a while remove the iron and paper, and, if the grease has not entirely disappeared, repeat the process with fresh paper.
If a large amount of oil or grease be spilled on a flat surface, immediately cover the place thickly with whiting, wheat flour, or meal of any kind. This will absorb some of the oily substance, and prevent it from spreading. After an hour or two brush off this substance and apply the usual remedies.
Grease spots on carpets may be taken out by covering the spots with fuller’s earth, wet with spirits of turpentine. Let it stand until the earth is a fine dry powder.
Delicate fabrics, like silk, crêpe, ribbons, scarfs, etc., may be spread on a clean cloth and then be covered with powdered French chalk or fuller’s earth. Roll up the article and put away for a few weeks and it will become clean.
To Take Grease from Wood and Stone.
Put one gill of washing soda and one quart of boiling water in a stewpan and place on the fire. When the soda is dissolved, pour the boiling liquid on the grease spot. Rub with an old broom. An hour or two later rub with a mop. Rinse out the mop; then wash with clean hot water. Be careful not to get the soda water on your hands, clothing, or boots.
Removing Stains from Marble.
If the stains were made by grease, spread wet whiting or chloride of lime on them and let it remain for several hours; then wash off. Washing soda, dissolved in hot water, mixed with enough whiting to form a thick paste, and kept on the stains for several hours, will remove grease spots.
Sometimes the marble has a discolored appearance from scratches. If it be rubbed hard with wet whiting and then washed and wiped dry, the mark will disappear. Ink and iron rust are usually removed with an acid, but if that be employed on marble, it will dissolve the stone. The remedies given for grease spots can, however, be used. Should an acid be used on marble, pour ammonia water on the spot and it will neutralize the acid, thus saving the marble.