Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1913 — Oldtime Polishes. [ARTICLE]

Oldtime Polishes.

Grandmothers kept- recipes for cleaning in precious notebooks. The recipes in their manuscript books they kept as punctiliously as their diaries were always to the point Polishes were homemade. Creams and plate powder were mixed and matured in the pantry. Plumbing and repairing bills had to be kept from the door by sheer Industry. Mistress and maids willingly acted the part of "handy men.” Instead of cleaning silver with polishing paste they used to make a soap powder. An ounce and a half of cocoanut soap mixed with sufficient water to make a thick paste was the foundation. To this they added seventy-five grains of rouge and twenty-two grains of carbonate of ammonia, working both Into the other ingredients and shutting the paste away in a tin box fitted with a lid. until it was required.