Grass Stains

New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 546, 9 December 1949, Page 23

Grass Stains

Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you please tell me the best way to remove grass stains from material? My son’s cricket longs, of cream cotton ‘gabardine, were badly stained after his last game, and the only help I could find in my recipe books was to make a paste of soap and baking soda. I did this and the green disappeared-but left a dark brown stain worse than any tea or coffee stain, Could you please let me know (1) how I should remove the dark brown stain and (2) the quickest way to reMove ereen erass stains another time.

Mt.

Pleasant

Otago.

When grass stains are fresh, they can | Generally be removed by soaking for some hours in glycerine, then washing in soft sudsy water and rinsing well. Country people, however, especially in earlier days, always used kerosene for the soaking, and with excellent results. Kerosene was in every house, and white dresses as well as white frousers and children’s pinafores, all were treated for grass stains with ker . Equally popular for this stain was, all things, golden syrup! That, too, was in every home, and it did the trick perfectly well, at no expense, and still does. Soaking in methyIated spirits is another good method, For the brown stains you now have, use glycerine, Soak in a saucer perhaps, and leave all might, then use soapy water next morning. Glycerine is also excelJent for fruit stains, as well as tea and coffee, and does not damage the material. |