Sun-Scorch

New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 26

Sun-Scorch

Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you kindly help me with my problem. I have a white cardigan that I washed and placed out in the sun to dry. In patches, the cardigan is now a

yellowish colour, and as I want to unpick it to make baby clothes with, I am asking your advice. I don’t know what I’d do without your cheery "Good morning"-your halfhour brings me a great deal of enjoyment. I feel as if you are in my dining room having a cup of tea and a friendly

chat.

Rocksay

(Wellington).

Many thanks for such a friendly letter. The cardigan is really slightly sunscorched. This often happens when drying woollies in a summer-sun, but you seem to have been caught on a bright winter's day. Still, white woollies nearly always get yellowish with age. Try kneading the cardigan well in a thin paste made of powdered chalk and water. Get the chalk De ee -_ nies T

frorn the chemist, and use 2lb. of chalk to every pound weight of wool, Afterwards, rinse in several waters, lukewarm, | and with a little borax dissolved in it, Borax helps to whiten wool. ) Another way is to make a soft soap | with a cake of ‘that well-known old--‘fashioned English washing soap, ond | borax. Dissolve 1 cake of the soap in about a quart of hot water, and mix in V4lb. of borax. Stir well up, and let | it cool. That will be good soft soap. Now make up a bleaching liquid with 2 tablespoons of that to nearly a gallon of lukewarm water. Soak the woollies in it for some hours-all night will not hurt if the water is cold. Then press and work the garment in it (do not rub), and afterwards rinse most thoroughly in at least three waters--lukewarm, with a dash of ammonia in, Dry in the breeze, but not in the sun. | ) ; 7