Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-26
Keeping New Look
on Your Furniture

The great secret in the care of fur
niture is to keep it well busted. Dust,
besides containing a number of IN
pleasant things, as the people who
look through microscopes are so ready
to tell us, has in it tiny particles of
rock. and these tend to scratch pol
ished surfaces by merely being blown
over them. Hence the Importance OF
careful. ligllthanded. dusting-gather-
ing up the offending atoms in the dust
ers and shaking these latter out of the
window from time to time. Fol
carved parts Il soft furniture brush
should be used. Needless to say. when
cleaning upholstered furniture the up
holstery should be beaten and brushed
if possible out of ~doors-betore the
woodwork is busted.
Sometimes ink stains need TO be
treated on an old bureau or chest: 1t
is best to rub them gently with a little
diluted salts of lemon, washing it off
as soon as possible and drying the part
quickly. White stains due TO placing
hot plates or wet vases on wood can
usually be removed by the application
al spirits of camphor. while scratched
or defaced parts may often be restored
by rubbing with camphorated oil.
If furniture is very dirty and finger
marked il should be carefully washed
before polishing. Old oak should be
cleansed with turpeptine while mahog-
any may be washed satisfactorily with
vinegar and water or cold tea. Rose
wood is washed with cold water and a
cAamois leather, afterwards II ls suf-
ficient 10 DRY it with a linen eloth and
polish it with a silk dustervno furni-
| ture polish being required.
Furniture with u very high polish
| may be sponged with methylated spir-
IT'S Il tablespoon to the pint, and aft
| erward dried and merely polished with
a leather.
To proceed with the actual polishing
| of furniture, old oak is best treated
| with beeswax and turpentine. To make
this mixture. shred some beesWa1
| finely, put into an eartheEware Jar
and cover it with t~urpentlne. Stand the
| jar in q saucepan containing water ana
leave over gentle heat, stirring until
| the wax is melted: add more turpen~
! tine if required. so as TO obtain the
consistency Of thick cream. Apply
with q linen pad TO the oak and rub
| very thoroughly with soft busters.
Furniture cream for polishing light
SpDu, sItI as hldpAF VI satin VIVA -
| made as follows: Shred Il ounce of
| white wax, one ounce of beeSwax aud
| one ounce of CASTLE soap finely into a
| stoneware jar. covering them with tur-
| pentine. Stand the jar in water on
the stove till the wax and soap are
melted. then pour on three-fourths OF
! Il pint of boiling water, stirring all the
time: when slightly cool pour the cream
into a ~wide-mouthed Tabled bottle.
| cork down when cold.
Apply to the wood with a rag and
| polish with soft busters till free from
| grease and sickness. first rubbing
| round and round and then in the di-
| rection Of the grain. that is, the way
| the tree grows. 1t is Il mistake to be
too lavish with the cream, as not only
is this e~xtravagant. but the mixture
gets into the erevices, and is thus diff
cult to remove
For dark wood, such as mahogany
| or walnut. an afficacious liquid polish
NAV be made very simply by pouring
| through Il funnel into a bottle a gill
| each of vinegar and methylated spirits
aud a half pint each of turpentins and
| linseed oil.
The. first three ingredients are
| cleansing agents, while the last one
nourishes the wood,
BE sure the bottle is labeled and
we'll corked. and shake it every time
before use, for the oil rises to the sur
face