1903 The still-room by C. Roundell

SOME MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES

URNITURE Polish.— Mix together one pint of linseed oil, half a pint of vinegar, and two table-spoonfuls of turpentine. Rub it well in with a flannel, and then thoroughly polish with a duster. Never leave the furniture sticky, but rub it till it is quite bright and clean. The best polish for oak is made by melting a pound of beeswax in a pint of turpentine. It must be used when it is of the consistency of dripping. If a polished table or tray has been marked by a hot dish, cover the place with beeswax and turpen- tine mixed together, and leave it for one hour. Then rub off the beeswax with a leather. Should the hot dish have scorched the wood, darken the place with a little linseed oil, and then polish it. For brass, use Putz' German Pomade. Rub it well on, and then polish the brass thoroughly with a leather, — /, R. To destroy the Smell of Paint in Rooms, — Place in each room a pail of water in which two or three handfuls of hay are immersed. At the end of six hours the hay will have absorbed much of the smell of the paint. Burn the hay, throw away the water, and repeat the process as often as required, — Take half a tea-spoonful of freshly ground black pepper, a'tea-spoonful of brown 149 /. R. jL To destroy Flies.