The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-31
SWEEPING AND BUSTING.

Points About Keeping Furniture So as 10
Always Look Bright
House furniture that is properly made
should last as long as the house and grow
more beautiful with time. Unhappily there
is very little such furniture now. The
cheap, veneered, snowy furniture, tricked
out in gewgaws to catch the eye of the
crowd, is not made to wear There is, how
ever, good furniture to be had. and though
it will cost more and will not be as snowy
as the veneered stuff, it represents genuine
value. Select your furniture deliberately,
remembering that there are only few
people in any community wealthy enough
to change their furniture as often as they
change the cut of their gowns.
The houses that are furnished in the most
satisfactory manner are those occupied by
people wise enough not to buy any more
furniture than was absolutely necessary at
first, waiting TO buy old pieces as opportu-
nifty offered. Happy indeed those families
who possess old pieces of furniture handed
down from generations past, which has
been kept in such good order that it is Inn
proved rather than injured by time.
Large pieces of furniture that have much
carving on them should be carefully COW
cred when room is swept, and smaller
pieces should be taken out. 1t is essential
that furniture should be kept thoroughly
busted. Rubbing furniture vigorously with
q soft channels or a flannel once week will
keep it in nice condition. 1t is good plan
to use rattan beaten to beat the dust out
of upholstered furniture at the weekly
sweeping. A soft whisk broom is also
necessary to brush off the furniture. Do
this before the sweeping, and remove the
busted chairs and other pieces that are
easily movable to place free from dust.
Cover up the larger pieces and proceed to
sweep. Let the dust settle and sweep the
room q second time, using this time a
broom merely dampened with salt and
water. Let the dust settle again and re-
place the furniture. Remember the dust
ing down Of the walls with long handled
feather or hair buster reaching to the cell
ing should be part of the weekly busting.
When the room is busted the last time, and
not till then, uncover the furniture, being
careful not to shake the dust off the covers,
but to do them up and take them to a win
dow to shake them out. Care should be
taken, however, that this dust does not fly
back in the room, as it may.
If the sweeping has been properly done
no dust will drift into the furniture, as it
will in a careless sweeping, and cause in a
few hours more wear than could come
from a month Of steady USE A fine piece
of wood certainly mellows with time 1t
is said to be a good plan to rub furniture
once in two or three months with prepa-
ration of gill Of good linseed oil and
teaspoonful of cider vinegar. Mix the oil
and vinegar thoroughly and apply it with
a soft flannel cloth, and polish the furni-
ture dry with an old channels skin or fan
mel. Do not leave any oil on the surface of
the furniture when it is done.
1t is not wise to apply any polish to
furniture oftener than once in two or three
months. If it is applied oftener the furni-
ture may become gummy and be more in
jured than improved. busting thoroughly,
vigorous polishing occasionally and sys-
tematic care viii do more, however,
than any elaborate applications can to
keep furniture in good condition.-New
York Tribune.