Rusty Shorts
Dear Aunt Daisy, I have often read some of your good advice in your columns, so now can you help me? To-day when lifting the washing out of our gas copper, I noticed my white linen shorts badly stained with rust. How can I remove the stain? "Valmai." First of all, try salt and lemon-mix them together, and dab on the rust marks, and leave for a few hours. Then hold them over the steam from a kettle -but be sure the gas is turned down low, or you may accidentally burn the shorts, and be in worse trouble than before. Dab on more salt and lemon, and steam again; but do not rub. Or get from the chemist some oxalic acid-he will tell you how strong to use it. Soak the marks in this for a little while, and then wash out with some baking soda, or a few drops of ammonia, in the water. This neutralises the acid.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 362, 31 May 1946, Page 27
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162Rusty Shorts New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 362, 31 May 1946, Page 27
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