Don't Cry Over Spilt-Anything! Here Are Few Tested Stain Cures By BIDDY BYES, Lady Macbeth was the first woman who is officially recorded to have wrestled with a spot-and used strong language over it! But there are tinofficial Lady Mac- beths without number-and from then until now, many a spot and stain has caused other ladies to suffer sleep loss and tempted the feminine tongue to near-profanity. I Fortunately, there's a cure for every spot-and here's a neat little list of such first-aids to the commonest va­rieties of spot and stain, For stains from acid use ammonia or chloroform. For chocolate stains-soak in coal oil and wash in cold water. Coffee stains yield to boiling water if treated when fresh. Fruit stains should be soaked when fresh in sweet milk or oxalic acid so­lution. Grass stains should be rubbed with molasses, then washed with soap and water. Grease spots should be rubbed with French chalk or Fuller's earth, For ink use salt, cornmeal, mag­nesia. Use dry first, then try paste by mixing any one of these with water. If dry absorbents fail try milk or oxalic acid solution. For mildew stains use lemon and salt or javelle water or soak in sour milk. Mud stains should be soaked in coal oil. Paint spots will usually yield to turpentine or benzine. Perspiration stains yield only to boiling water. Tea stains are treated with boiling water. Wine spots should be covered with dry salt when fresh, or with warm milk if dried or old. Stains from acid fruits such as lemon or grape fruit should be covered with baking soda. Fruit stains which turn blue or gray after treatment with boiling water can be removed by a 16 per cent solution of acetic acid. Alcohol, either wood or grain, will remove the most stubborn grass stains. For the stains left by eggs, milk, meat or blood on wash material try to remove first by soap and water. Then try soaking the spot or garment in two tablespoonfuls of household ammonia to a gallon of water. If some trace of stain still remains sponge with peroxide of hydrogen. If stains are on thick, unwashable ma­terial apply a paste of starch and water; let dry and brush out. Lemon juice and salt remove the average rust stain. Sponge paint, tar or pitch stains with turpentine or benzine; then wash with hot soapsuds. If you think your income tax is a hardship, picture what you would have been up against had William Hohenzoilern won the collectorship job.