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Show TRY WASHING THE FURNITURE Pieces That Have Been Cast Of! May Easily Be Restored to Original Orig-inal Brightness. "Very few people know that furnl-.ure furnl-.ure ought to be washed," said a salesman sales-man in the runiiture section of a large department store. "Yes," he continued. "It is the best thing one ?an do to keep furniture looking as well as it should. One should take a bucket of tepid rain walM- and make 1 suds with a good pure soap. Then, with a soft piece of cheesecloth, all the woodwork should be washed. It Is astonishing how much dirt will come off. A second piece of cheese-oloth cheese-oloth should be wrung dry out of hot water. On this should be poured a tablespoonfui of first class furniture polish. The heat will spread the polish pol-ish through the cloth. Next, the furniture fur-niture should be gone over with the second cloth. There will be no need f putting on more polish, for that much will do all one needs. Too many persons make the mistake of using too much polish and leaving it thick on the furniture, where it looks dauby, and where it gathers more dirt." There is furniture In homes today that is cast off because of its appearance, appear-ance, when it might be brought back to its original freshness by this simple sim-ple process of washing. Many persons per-sons do not know that a fine bit of mahogany is improved by careful washing, and hundreds of pianos have never been more than dusted in years. A square of cheesecloth for the washing wash-ing and another for the polishing will do the work, and the result will well repay the effort. |