The Day's Routine
The Day's Routine (II)
Clean steel fittings from rust with sweet oil or kerosene and polish with emery. Clean brass fittings with emery or bath brick by means of…
The Day's Routine: Clean
Or, if a stove is much covered with grease, mix powdered blacking with gasoline and rub it on rapidly with flannel. Clean the stove…
The Day's Routine: Asbestos
Uses for Asbestos. - Asbestos is a fireproof substance which is found in the earth in a natural state. It has a short fiber, but whether it…
The Day's Routine: Care
Care of Matches. - Keep a stock of matches on a high and dry shelf in a covered earthen jar or tin box with a tight lid where they will be…
The Day's Routine: Light
To Light Gas Stoves. -In lighting the top burners do not be in a hurry.
The Day's Routine: Turn
Waste of Gas. - Turn down the burner as soon as the food begins to cook. When water bubbles the burner should be turned down. It is a…
The Day's Routine: Place
A cleat may be tacked on the bottom at one end to tilt the box, and by boring auger holes a slit may be made at the opposite end to allow…
The Day's Routine: Milk
Milk Dishes. - Milk pans, pitchers, and tumblers which have contained milk, and dishes in which milk or milk puddings have been cooked…
The Day's Routine: Towels
Dishcloths - Care of. - The dishcloth must be kept clean. A greasy dishcloth affords a breeding place for the germs of diphtheria, typhoid…
The Day's Routine: Tinware
Tinware. To cleanse tinware moisten either brick dust or whiting with aqua ammonia, kerosene, or washing soda. Care must be taken not to…
The Day's Routine: Tins
To Prepare New Tins. - New tins are often covered with rosin or other substances which should be removed before using. Fill with boiling…
The Day's Routine: Ware
Wooden Ware. - Do not wash the bread board, wooden bread platter, or rolling-pin in hot water. Wash with warm soapsuds and rinse in clean…
The Day's Routine: Wash
Wash them with a sponge or soft cloth in suds made of hard white or other neutral soap and cold or warm water. Afterwards wipe dry and…
The Day's Routine: Glassware
To Clean Cut Glass and Fine Glassware.-Cut glass and very fine glass water bottles, decanters, and vases may be cleaned by first placing…
The Day's Routine: Collodion
This is the great enemy of silver. It occurs in illuminating gas, sewer gas, and many other compounds, and contaminates the atmosphere…
The Day's Routine: Silverware
Silverware Pockets. - The most convenient method of disposing of silver for daily use is a wide, shallow drawer in a serving table or…
The Day's Routine: Fold
Fold the lower part upon the upper, leaving room for a wide hem or heading at the top. Stitch down the folded part on the sewing machine…
The Day's Routine: Silver
To Polish Silver. - All plate and silverware which is in regular use and not stored in such a way as to protect it from discoloration…
The Day's Routine: Tarnished
To Boil Tarnished. Silver.-If the silver is much tarnished, boil for five minutes in water containing a mixture of equal parts of cream of…
The Day's Routine: Afterwards
To Polish Tarnished Silver. - After boiling tarnished silver, if necessary apply with a sponge or rag powdered whiting moistened with sweet…
The Day's Routine: Apply
To Remove Medicine Stains. - Iodine and other ingredients in certain medicines may stain silver spoons. To remove such stains, rub them…
The Day's Routine: Sinks
CARE OF SINKS AND DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE Care of Sinks. Stretch a piece of picture wire or cord over the kitchen sink. Over this hang old…
The Day's Routine: Spread
To Make Beds.-Spread the lower sheet with the seam down, the wide heading at the top, tucking it in all around. Spread the upper sheet with…
The Day's Routine: Chimneys
A To Clean Lamp Chimneys. sponge is the best thing with which to clean lamp chimneys. Select a sponge large enough to fill the biggest part…