St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-07

mahogany or rosewood veneering to a
steaming process and then a severe
rubbing of their finely polished surface.
Should the veneering be left to scrub?
Every woman that has had any expert
ence with such spots caused by heat on
her furniture knows how hard 1t is to
remove, and what bad looking place
is left, which is much worse looking
than any simple scratch can be On fur
niture.
An easy way to get rid of scratches
on any furniture is to have small
bottle with large mouth and camel
hair pencil. Get the bottle filled win
alcohol, and with the pencil wet tue
scratched place well. Have a similar
bottle and pencil or brush OF Gamer
hair and have the bottle filled with pure
boiled linSeed oil, which can be applied
as soon as the alcohol is dry, and III
few minutes the scratch Will be en-
tirely obliterated. In this way there Is
no danger to the most costly OF furnl-
ture. not even the soiling of it, when.
after an hour or so, 1t Is Wlpeu
over with soft piece Of old flannel. "A
nice way to clean and polish such FUR
niture is to take soft old flannel, wet 1t
i'm one spot with the alcohol and rub the
article with it. then follow with the
boiled linseed oil and rub a fine polish
with the flannel, and the articles so
treated have delicate appearance
without any glaring effect OF coat OF
cheap varnish, and all marrlng is OBJ
liberated by the most gentle process
and in very short time, and no fretteu
nerves to ache afterward. That dlrec-
ton for getting rid of unslghtly scratch
or mar of furniture is one OF many
such articles that are published ana
bring sorrow to many houSekeepe!s
who have little or no experience IN
household affairs and want every ar!lcie
about their houses to DE IN exquisite
order, yet do not know all the mlSchlei
that can be done by sueh Simple anu
easy WAYS as we sometimes read or IN
the periodicals for the household. Ii
those who send such recipes to the ever
busy editor and publisher would Just
make trial of it herself, she would ma
out the worth of the remedy by the EN-
deayors she had to make in obllteratlng
the "wnite SPOT that will surely follow
the heating of any vanished or pol
ished furniture surface that IS Susceptl-
bic to heat.
Sometimes it seems as if such articles
and bits of information were sent OUT
without reason or any care as TO the
effect of the prescription, but merely 10
send something for publication, and SO
without any knowledge OF cause ana
effect it is sent on its rounds to the sOr-
row of those that
WANT A REMEDY
for many household miShaps that occur
almost daily in spite of all the care that
a woman can exercise about her house
and housekeeping.
In making use of such bits OF in
formation one should be very cautious
how they employ the published
remedy, for many little bits OF
| information that is valuable to any
housekeeper, and we feel very
thankful to the editor that just slipped
the information into that small space as
a help to us, when it does help us very
much, and when we see the effect is not
what it claims to be, but only makes a
bad matter worse, we wonder who I'M
posed upon him or her in that matter,
and how to correct the mischief those
few lines may do is our first inquiry?
Just try it on some old bit of furniture
or some vanished surface, and then
try the rubbing off of the white spot
that you make by the wet paper and hot
iron. Then try the linseed oil alone on
some scratch or mar and see the result.
and you will be satisfied am quite
sure. Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.