The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-13

apt IN time TO assume a greasy appear
ance, which should be removed during
the annual house cleaning by washing
! it in warm beer. To give it a hand
some gloss. brush 1t over with mix
1 ture OF two quarts of beer boiled with
q tablespoonful of sugar, and a piece
! of beeswax as large as q walnut: when
dry polish with a chamois or flannel
If oak or walnut articles are infected
with tiny insect that bores holes IN
4 til the wood crumbles into fine powder,
+ stop its wild career by saturating the
wood with creosote; do not allow it TO
dry for several days.
If furniture is very dirty it should be
washed in water and vinegar-equal
parts-using flannel rag, and then, ar
ter perfect drying. rubbed WITH clean
flannel and 4 little iinseed oil before
using any liquid or cream polish.
If q table bears the Ieli-tale marks
left by a not plate, etc, rub it we'll
with lamp oil and flannel, finishing off
with q clean cloth slightly wet with
spirits of wine. Anot - ns-~
0-ife restores the original polish when
it has been removed ~ go. 49,.
with linseed oil, rubbed in with a piece
of linen, changing the linen until the
table top is perfectly dry. White spots
are removed by rubbing them with a
piece OF flannel and turpentine. repeat
ing the application, if necessary. and
in any case rubbing with a good Will
until patience and strength are about
exhausted.
Unsightly finger marks disappear
from vanished furniture when rubbed
with sweet oil. and from oiled wood if
kerosene is rubbed on the spots. A
hruise should be treated with piece
Of brown paper, folded several times
ard soaked in hot water; over this hold
g moderately warm iron until all
steamine ceases; if necessary repeat
the process, remembering that one ap-
plicatlon does not always turn out a
success. Always apply alcohol spar
ingly upon furniture. if at all, or it
viii destroy the polish.
Clean carved furniture every week by
thoroughly busting it with a new paint
brush IF the mahogany table that is
the pride of your heart shows stains,
drop on them a mixture of six parts of
spirits Of salt and one of salts of lemon
or a few drops of oXalic acid and water,
rubbing until the stain disappears. and
then wash with water and polish as
usual If mahogany only needs clean
ing rub il with a flannel dipped in
sweet or cold drawn linseed oil. In
rubbing wood follow the grain, and do
not rub against it any more than you
Wtuiu III people II Wishing d happy re-
suit.
IL an ink stain gets upon a ma
hogany writing desk, remove with a
few drops of spirits of inter in a spoon
full of water. Put one drop on the ink,
and rub it at once with a cloth wet
with water, or it will make a white
spot. Every day dining table of ma
hogany should be wiped off with a
clean flannel dipped in barely warm
soapsuds, using pure soap to pre-
vent staining, and then with a thick
flannel wad pour melted wax until it
forms q glazed surface; when cold and
hard, rub the table, following the
grain, until it reflects your image like
a mirror.
All upholstered furniture must be
beaten with cane or regular rattan
beater and then wiped with a cheese
cloth duster. A grease spot on silk
furniture is removed with equal parts
of ether and chioroform on wooden up
holstery use turpentine. Cane-seated
chairs require a vigorous scrubbing
with soapsuds in which drop a little
ammonia; scrub both sides of the seat,
rinse and dry in the air.
Among the many liquid and cream
polishes given by excellent authorities
here are few that are simple and eff
fectual, but remember the rubbing is
the main ingredient of every recipe
given. Two parts of linseed oil, the
same of alcohol and one part of tur-
pentine; to a quart of this all an