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Show TAKES STAIN FROM MAHOGANY Disfiguring Spots May Easily Be Removed, Re-moved, Though the Operation Requires Carefulness. For the thumb mark that so often disfigures mahogany, or that blurred blue haze which clouds Its polish there Is a simple remedy which requires only a deft hand and a bit of courage. A soft rag or flannel, dampened with alcohol, must be passed quickly and lightly over the part. Water stains and liquor spots will disappear Immediately. Imme-diately. The amateur reflnlsher, however, how-ever, must heed the warning that the v.ork be done with great rapidity and absolute confidence in onesself. To slacken the wipe of the rag on the surface means that the polish will be roughened, and made to look streaked, or as if glue bad been spilled, and a furniture expert will have to be called call-ed In to lend his skill toward bringing back the smooth nilrror-llke surface slice again. In old time a wax polish pol-ish was customary, and the servants worked with a will ovpt every piece, so that their tabfes and chairs would outshine those of the next big house A dull finish was unheard of. and would have been scorned as showing laziness in the household, besides being be-ing a dust revealer, for even a fleck shows on unpolished furniture most plainly. |