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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 2, 1938.

You Don't Know How-To Clean Your New Furniture

I am in the bric-a-brac depart- ment of a large store. I am afraid that I am listening to a conversa- tion. It is between a very angry woman and a salesman.

It seems that she bought a mir- ror glass table a month ago.

It was a dream come true smooth, shining, spongeable, Peach colour, too to match her cur- tains. She saved up for it.

Last week she put a hot tea-pot down on it, and the table cracked right across.

She is enraged. A glass table is to save all that old bother with tea- pot stands and cork mats and polishing off heat marks.

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When the salesman explained that mirror glass the kind she bought, anyway is not heat- proof, she said:-

Linseed oil rubbed into terra- cotta tiles produces a delightful, mellow and easily kept surface. Fireplace and wall tiles should be washed regularly and polished with dry cloths.

Glass scratches.

I write this with some feeling.

The people who lived in my house before me cleaned the win- dows with bathbrick.

In some lights they look as if someone had been very busy with a diamond, Nothing can cure them.

Water, soap and water, water and vinegar plus smooth hairless cloths are the best cleaners for any kind of glass.

When you think that, before long, whole houses will be built of glass bricks, it is important to know how to service this material.

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"Well, people ought to be told these things. New materials appear every week and nobody knows how

Opaque glass black, crimson to treat them. I suppose you call and green- is already fashionable that 'buying" experience, young in decoration. And you can see well, I don't think it's the scratches on it in less than no

time unless you clean it carefully.

man

good enough."

There's a lot in what she said.

Plastics the unbreakable table and picnic ware · need gentle

New materials are coming into methods. domestic use all the time.

Women go on cleaning them in the old ways and very often spoil their looks.

If really dirty wash in warm soapy water. Dry thoroughly and polish with clean cloths.

I made inquiries about servicing some of the new wood finishes. Some domestic surfaces become Plastic door plates and table rougher with wear. Others become tops can occasionally be waxed, smoother.

Red

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and I am told that some plastics other than table ware - respond quarry tiles, imitation well to smooth metal polishes.

asbestos and unpainted wood are among those that wear smooth.

Cups and saucers of

and breakable variety should not be this, un-

Bakelite, glazed concrete, paint-subjected to steel wool "mits” or work of every kind, and aluminium magic cleaning pads.

can go into the rough-wearing list.

When a plastic material has been

Occasionally, roughness appears damaged by scratches it collects

when a surface is really old and worn out. More often it appears when a wrong, method of cleaning has been used.

Tiles can be washed but not scoured. On floors other than kit- chén floors they polish well.

Witty Kitty

You no longer are

generation 17 of bedroom

dance pum

dirt and soon becomes shabby.

Plate glass table tops of certain thickness are heat-proof up to a point.

What I mean is, that they will stand hot plates and dishes, but will not stand the kettle straight off the hob.

There are new makes of glass which claim to be absolutely! damage-proof. Table-tops and stair- cases being made of it, so I must believe it is true,

Marble imitation

real, pressed or will crack: under extreme heat and for that reason is a risky material for fireplaces.

It can be washed with soap and Water and polished once or twice a year..

If the quality is good, dry cloths will be sufficient restore its lustre.

New limedor pickled furniture needs only rubbing wit dry clean

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if can be re- wrung... soapy

| kloths, Marks nd stains

bt really seriou moved with

16th

Now

materials mean new methods. Don't experiment. Ask what to do about it before you

buy

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