Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — Care of Pianos. [ARTICLE]

Care of Pianos.

N. Y. World. Many fine pianos are ruined by being kept closed for several mouths. Unless a piano is opened and aired regularly,in bright weather, moths will eat up the felt covering of the hammers and rust will gather upon the strings of the keyboard, That is bad enough, but there is another evilthat happens about this time. After returning from vacations during the summer people have their pianos tuned,and there are so many bad tuners that, serious damage is frequently done to the instruments. None but a first-class man, proficient in his art, should be allowed to tune a piano. Unknown men who tune a piano for a small sum are productive of greater evils than mothsand rust.

In gathering wild flowers, autumn leaves, or picking in the woods, we are more or less exposed tp danger from poisoning by ivy or other wild vines and shrubs. The poison is under certain circumstances readily absorbed by the blood,and painful swellings or eruptions are caused. Such affections Hood’s Sarimpurities from the blood. Even in cases of poisoning by Paris green,Hood’s Sarsaparilla has been remarkably succeaafuL It should be kept cohstantlyTir the nonse for all blood disorder*. Hood’s Sarsaparilla js prepared by C. I. Hood & Co,, LoWeU, Mass., and. ia. sold by all. druggists. 100 doses sl.