WHAT MILK WILL DO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19382, 17 July 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)

WHAT MILK WILL DO.

Stove polish, mixed with water, gives less satisfactory results and entails more labour than that mixed with either fresh or skimmed milk. Milk used for such purpose softens the polish and so thoroughly blends, that vigorous rubbing is not necessary. Milk, always plentiful in the farmhouse, serves to facilitate work and saves expenditure in numberless domestic directions. In many country districts, hard, harsh water renders laundry work doubly difficult. A cup of sweet, fresh milk, added to the water in which the linen is blued, -will wonderfully soften it and prevent the blue streaking the clothes. Ironing, too, will be made comparatively easy, and the surface of the linen will assume a smooth, glossy polish, impossible if the water be used in its original state. Shirts, or garments of a similar class, greatly soiled, may be washed in milk "turned," with very gratifying results. Colour will be improved, and the getting up of the shirt will be rendered less difficult. In the removal of many stains, milk proves highly efficacious, particularly if combined with common kitchen salt. To such simple application, ink and rust stains may yield, or sour milk stirred to a paste with salt may be substituted. Place the stained linen in the-strong, sunlight, and moisten the paste with sour milk from time to time. To efface wet ink stains, steep the stained portion of the linen in fresh milk. Change the milk as it soils. When the ink disappears rinse in warm water, then wash in the usual way.