Good things made, said, & done, for every home & household.

Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Good things made, said, & done, for every home & household. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    NONE SEEK TO RISE BUT THOSE WHO SEEK TO CLIMB. m AMENDMENT IS REPENTANCE. care should be taken to raise no dust in the room by sweeping or otherwise, until the varnish is set and become quite hard. A fire-stove thus treated will pre- serve a fresh and bright appearance all through the summer, and nothing more need be done to it until fires are relighted, when it may be again blackleaded as usual. It may further be made ornamental by setting within the bars a large pot filled with ferns, and a row of ferns in pots may be placed in front of the stove within the fender. If the pots in which the ferns are placed be kept within other pots larger in size, less watering will be required, and to prevent any escape of welter into the grate or on the fender after watering, care should be taken to set each pot in a large earthen saucer, which may be nearly hidden from sight by filling it with moss. The rich green of the ferns will find an admirable contrast in the bright black surface of the stove. All iron articles, such as coal-scuttles, &c., when not required for use during the summer season, should be coated with Goodall's Brunswick Black before being laid up in ordinary. Those which show any signs of holes in the bottom should be sent to the tinman or zinc worker, that a sheet of zinc may be laid over the inside and riveted strongly to the iron sheet of which the coal-scuttle is made. When sent home the new work should be varnished over with Goodall's Brunswick Black. By such treatment all utensils of this kind will be fresh and soutid when again brought into use. -A- ONCE A USE AND EVER A CUSTOM. I# ALL THINGS MUST YIELD TO INDUSTRY AND TIME.