Sea Water Stains

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 45

Sea Water Stains

Dear Aunt Daisy, ‘The holiday perio’ is responsible for my not having let you know the result

of the method of removing sea stains from white buckskin shoes, which you so kindly sent me. The warm milk and washing soda method was completely successful, one application being sufficient.-" Miss V.M.P.", (Wellington) Thank you very much for letting us know. It will kelp many a link in ike Daisy Chain. The shoes were new and g00d, and it was a rather despairing request which you sent, because you had already tried various white shoe cleaners. However, I suggested the method for removing sea water stains from brown shoes — just dissolving a small lump of washing soda in hot milk, and dabbing this on. Let it dry, and repeat the dabbing. Afterwards clean the shoes as usual. So it is nice to know that the methed "worked" with white buckskin. Sea water stains are hard to remove. On black shoes, the most successful way is to rub with a paste made of black lead and lemon juice. Leave this on for an hour or so before brushing off. Some people have removed the stains from brown shoes by dissolving a little blue out of the blue-bag in hot milk and rubbing with a rag dioped in this. Clean as usual afterwards. If you get sea water stains on a dark blue or black trock, it is sometimes removable with vinegar. Damp a piece of the same material with vinegar, and rub gently over the stain.