Cream and Sugar for Ink

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 March 1940, Page 45

Cream and Sugar for Ink

Dear Aunt Daisy, Here is a proved remedy for removing ink stains. Just put a wee drop of creamy milk on the marks then put some

sugar, and rub with the fingers. The sugar will bring out the stains. Repeat until the stain disappears. If it is not convenient to wash the article at once just leave it and wash in the usual way when ready and you will not notice the stain at all. Provided you do this as soon as the ink mark is noticed it will work, and even if you only just have time to put the sugar and milk on without washing, the stain will not spread. The children's clothes often get spotted at school, and the method works all right even with coloured clothes, I have a maroon table cover marked with ink spots, and I have just persevered with it and have practically removed the stains. You can just see the marks as I have not yet washed the table cloth, for it is new. But when I do wash it I know the stain will disappear. I have also taken ink stains out of a white curtain that blew into the room when the window was open and pulled over the ink bottle. You can guess what a mess the curtain was in! I just soaked it in sugar and milk, renewing these until the stain was gone, and then washed the curtain in the usual manner. The ink stains will not come out if they are washed in water first, as the water and soap seem to set them. My daughter hada lovely white tennis dress given to her because it was spoilt with ink stains, and the people had washed the frock beforehand. My daughter has done her best with tomato. juice and the stain is now much weaker.-‘"A_ Blenheimite." Well, that really is a new .idea-to me, at any rate--and such an easy one to carry out. One hasn't always a tomato at hand, but milk and sugar are nearly always available,