Portable balls for removing spots from clothes, may be thus
prepared. Fuller’s earth perfectly dried, (so that it crumbles
into a powder,) is to be moistened with the clear juice of lemons,
and a small quantity of pure pearl-ashes is to be added. Knead the
whole carefully together, till it acquires the consistence of a
thick elastic paste: form it into convenient small balls, and dry
them in the sun. To be used, first moisten the spot on the clothes
with water, then rub it with the ball, and let the spot dry in the
sun; after having washed it with pure water, the spot will entirely
disappear.