Leather chairs and the tops of writing tables are renovated by sponging them lightly with warm soapsuds, and then rubbing on the white of an egg whipped stiff. Or, if this seems like wasting the egg, rub over the leather a mixture of half. a cup of sweet oil to a cupful of vinegar; boil them together and polish the leather with a useful piece of old flannel. When willow chairs lose their natural colour it is said that a solution of chlorine will restore it..
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 306, 28 December 1898, Page 3
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