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Show CARE FOR FLOORS IMPORTANT TASK Good-Sized Boy Can Do the Polishing. (Prepared hy the United States Department of Agriculture.) If you have a good-sized boy In your family enlist his help out of school hours to recondition the floors. If they have been varnished, they should be swept with a soft brush, a mop, or a broom covered with a cotton-flannel bag, and then rubbed with a cloth or mop slightly moistened with floor oil or kerosene. The oil gradually grad-ually dries out of varnish after it has been applied to wood, and unless re-stortd re-stortd by an occasional rubbing with an oiled cloth, the varnish becomes exceedingly ex-ceedingly hard and brittle. Use only enough oil to moisten the cloth or mop. In general, says the United States Department of Agriculture, varnished floors retain their color and luster I 1 1 ? I IP ' 1 1 - ..if l Enlist the Boy's Help With the Fioors. better if no water is used on them, but if very dirty tlioy may be wiped with a cloth or mop wrung out of warm soapy water, wiped dry at or.ce, and polished with an oiled cloth or mop. Waxed floors should be swept with a soft brush or mop entirely free from oil. Oil softens wax and should never be used on it any way. About once a week a waxed floor should be give a more thorough cleaning with a cloth wrung out of warm soapy water, or moistened with turpentine or gasoline. Occasionally after cleaning, the entire floor may be given a very thin coat of wax and polished with a weighted brush or woolen cloth. |