The Bantam Walks
Dear Aunt Daisy, This is the way I removed red paint -and roof paint at that. A white blouse belonging to my daughter got covered with this red paint. A bantam hen, in looking for a nest, had fallen into an open tin of red paint, and then hopped into the clothes basket where this blouse happened to be. My husband, on hearing about it, said "Try washing soda, that and soap takes paint out of paint brushes." So, Aunt Daisy, I put some soap powder-about a tablespoon-and a good lump of washing soda into a basin, and. about 2 cups of boiling water, stirred until dissolved, and put the blouse in that. I left it for a few minutes, and the paint then rubbed out like magic. I rinséd the blouse well in warm | |
water.
Irish
Lass
Thank you, Irish Lass, for telling us of that. Amyl acetate from the chemist is good for femoving paint from clothes which cannot be washed. Also disinfectants with a tar derivative in are g00d, and often metal polish.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 376, 6 September 1946, Page 27
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