While the stains are yet wet upon the carpet, sponge them with
skim-milk _thoroughly_. Then wash out the milk with a clean sponge
dipped again and again in fair water, cold. Exchange this presently for
warm; then rub dry with a cloth. If the stain is upon any article of
clothing, or table, or bed linen, wash in the milk well, afterward in
the water.
_Dry_ ink stains can be removed from white cloth by oxalic acid, or
lemon-juice and salt.