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Furniture Doctored

To take out bruises from furniture, wet the part with warm water; double a piece of brown paper five or six times, soak it, and lay it on the place; apply on that a hot iron till the moisture is evaporated; two or three applications will raise the dent or bruise level with the surface. If the bruise be small, merely soak it with warm water, and apply a red-hot iron very near the surface; keep it continually wet, and in a few minutes the bruise will disappear. To remove stains, wash the surface with stale beer or vinegar; the stains will be removed by rubbing them with a rag dipped in spirits of salt. Re-polish as you would new work. If the work be not stained, wash with clean spirits of turpentine and re-polish with furniture oil.