Fruit-stained Cloth
Dear Aunt Daisy, 4 I wonder if you could help me. A’ good white linen @cloth and also a coloured cloth, were stained with pear juice earlier this year, I boiled the white cloth, after soaking in soapy water over-. night, but the stain showed and has continued to do $o after subsequent washings. The coloured cloth was not boiled, but the stain shows just as clearly. Could you please suggest a remedy? "Hilda of Sumner." _ I should think ‘the. stains are now quite "set," and will probably not come out, especially the one you boiled. A
good thing to do AT ONCE when a cloth gets a fruit stain is to cover the place with a thick wettish plaster of starch and cold water-even soaked white bread has been used successfully on a tablecloth when placed on stain immediately. This has been known to work even with beetroot juice at the meal table! A plaster of starch and cold water is also useful for scorch marks. Keep the paste wet, and leave on for several hours, in) both cases. Now that your stains are old, you could try soaking for several hours in glycerine; then pour on hot water from a height; or dab with diluted oxalic acid (from chemist) about a dessertspoon to a breakfast cup of water, afterwards rinsing very thoroughly with water containing a few drops of ammonia.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 33
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234Fruit-stained Cloth New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 33
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