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Show TO POLISH A WOOD FLOOR JF you have a soft wood floor that needs polishing the first stop ls to see that It Is absolutely clean. V. hen the floor has been already painted or varnished the stains should be removed with strons ammonia and thorough scraping; then All all cracks and dents with putty and apply a filler over the entire surface of the floor. This filler can be purchased at places whre paints and varnishes are sold, and It should be either mixed with a little color or a sufficient quantity of llOOr stain added. The filler should be applied with a flat brush or a piece of cloth and worked In one direction with the grain of tho wood, while on completion of the process the room should be closed for twenty-four hours. At the end of that time the floor should be rubbed u:th a long handled, heavily weighted brush, over which a piece of carpet has been lacked. Fuial-I) Fuial-I) the floor may bo polished with boiled linseed oil and turpentine, this mixture being rubbed In well with a cloth and left for an hour or two to dry, after which It will be necessary to go over the floor with the weighted brush. Instead of a final tou h of this kind the filler could bo finished with a coat of stain or varnish or both of them should be put on with a weighted brush or an old piece of carpcL Vhen you have succeeded in getting a fine polish on tho floor never ruin It hy washing It with water, but after the dust has been removed with floor-brush floor-brush rub In some crude petroleum and let dry. |