Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — To Wash Dishes Properly. [ARTICLE]

To Wash Dishes Properly.

To the woman with whom the love of cleanliness and daintiness is inherent the manner in which the ordinary servant washes dishes is maddening. Glass, silver, china, are all crowded, helter-skelter, into a diskpan full of warm water, a cake of soap is next added, and white this swims in the tepid suds, a greasy dishcloth is used to “swab” off each article before it is removed from the pan and placed on the table to drain. Dishes to be cleansed properly should be washed, as it were, in courses. Into a perfectly clean pan of scalding water, to which have been added a few drops of ammonia, go first the glasses, each one of which must be dried rapidly with a soft linen cloth. Now the washing powder or the soap, inclosed "in a Shaker, or, lacking this, in a deep cup, goes in the pan, and the silver is washed each piece being rubbed to a polish While still hot. Last comes the china, from which the grease must already have been rinsed. As many plates, etc., cool the suds, boiling water must be lioured in as often as needed. The secret of bright and polished table ware is never to allow a dish to drain. Each bit of crockery or metal must be wiped the moment it is drawn from the hot suds. Not one servant in a hundred will follow this rule, unless constantly reminded by the mistress that she must do so. The price of wellwashed dishes is, like all other dainty housework, the mistress’ eternal vigilance.—Harper’s Bazar.