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Show LOOK TO THE CARE OF YOUR FURNITURE I When the lashion prevailed to hav j I Inch polish on furniture and inside! woodwork, even the ambitious housewife house-wife must have hesitated "doing over" her own furniture or woodwork But now that the flat tones are almost universal uni-versal admired, one may without much difficulty renovate fine wood so that the effect, if not exactly similar I to that of ihe cabinetmaker at least I passes muster, and furniture so treated treat-ed is at least much to be preferred lo furniture begrimed and besmudgedl with the wear of several years Sim - : ply to dust a chair or table with a I damp cloth does not take the dirt off Furniture even constantly so dusted; does not remain clean and parts of the furniture that are much used or handled become fairly saturated with Girt and crime that resist any ordinary cleansing process. Here are a few formulas for rht purpose, and if you are to have them, put up you will find it much cheaper1 io go to a paint store with a large glass fruit jar or an earthen crock and , , have the dealer measure out the ingredients in-gredients into your crock or jar than to attempt to buy various ingredients mi separate bottles and mix them m home. A simple cleansing mixture Is made of three tablespoons of linseed oil. and one tablespoon of turpentine, added when about to be used to a quart of' very hot water. This will not mix with I Ihe water very well, but it should !e agitated and should be applied as a cleaner to woodwork and floors that are in fairly good condition by ineme Of a clean woolen cloth saturated in I it and then wrung out This is also a good mixture to use as an introduc- I tion to a more thorough cleaning loi furniture that has become begrimeo Such furniture should be rubbed, with a great deal of elbow grease, with the following mixture Take a two QUar. canning Jar to the paint store and have the ingredients put in the orde'-here orde'-here given: One-quarter of a cup of I rottenstone. one quarter of a cup of I linseed oil, one-quarter of a cup of turpentine, one-quarter of a cup of! inaptha; one-quarter of a cup of strong solution of oxalic acid. |