Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1913 — HAVE THE BRUSHES LABELED [ARTICLE]

HAVE THE BRUSHES LABELED

Fastidious Housekeeper Wil! Not Bo Content Until Each Has Its Separate, Appointed Place. Not long ago a new maid was' Installed in the kitchen of an apartment dweller who is rather particularly fastidious. ( A few days after her installation the mistress found her using the sink-brush on the corn. The potatoes, too, it developed, had come in tor similar polishing with the same instrtiment of offense. The maid was not ignorant, and not careless, but the brush that this mistress used for the sink was exactly like the brush the, last mistress had used for vegetables, and the maid and the com and the potatoes had become involved thereby. After that, the kitchen brushes were marked, a red hot poker being used for the purpose. Brushes, by the way, are sanitary necessities in the wellregulated kitchen of the day. It is left for somebody to invent a really suitable brush for tipping the tops of rolls and pastry with egg, or butter, or milk. Many women prefer a shaving-brush of badger hair to anything as yet devised for the purpose. Such a brush must be cleaned with boiling water, which means that the brush with glued-ln bristles is not available. A bottle brush is something that many kitchens lack, to their own detriment. Another essential brush is the wirehandled trap-brush for the refrigerator. The trap-brush for the bathroom is equally necessary.