Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1911 — DULL POLISH IS CALLED FOR [ARTICLE]

DULL POLISH IS CALLED FOR

•liver Must Not Be Made Too Bright' -i-®ome Hints as to Proper Care of Tableware. Do not give your silver a bright! polish, for the vogue now is to havel antique silver for the toilet table as well as for the dintag table. You will have to do the polishing cleverly if you do not want it to as-' sume the brightness of newly manufactured sliver, so you must know how to remove the discoloration without too much brlliancy appearing. Do you know that a bath in soapy water that Is boiling hot is quite as, effective as polish if a little ammonia is added to the water? After washing it should be rinsed tq clear, hot water, and you will find, that all spots will have vanished. Too high a polish will not appear if wiped with coarse dry towels as each piece emerges from the bath. You should make it a point never to leave a lot of silver to dry by draining, and the water collect on other sections, thus losing the cleaq look that is supposed to be supplied by the washing and quick drying necessary.. If silver which is In constant use is washed in this way it will not need polishing more than once a month at the most, and then the pollshmn should be done discreetly, so that the new appearance is not given to it In homes where gas Is used as an lllumlnant the silver discolors soon, though if mantles are used on the jets It reduces this to some extent