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The Day's Routine (II)

CLEANING AND POLISHING STOVES - DISHWASHING - CARE OF KITCHEN WARES-CARE OF GLASSWARE AND CUT GLASS- STEEL KNIVES AND FORKS-CARE OF SILVERWARE-CARE OF SINKS AND DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE-CHAMBER WORK- CARE OF LAMPS CLEANING AND POLISHING STOVES Care of Kitchen Range. Remove cinders and ashes each morning, brush out the inside of fire box and flues, and brush off the outside with wings or a hair brush; wash off the stove, if greasy, with soda and water and a piece of flannel. Blacken and polish.

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 flannel, and polish with chamois. Clean the hearth with hot water and soda by means of a flannel cloth.

Care of Stoves. - The cook stove or range may be kept in good order by a daily brushing or rubbing and by a thorough blacking and polishing once a week. - Cook Stove To Keep Clean.

Sprinkle a little salt over anything burning on the stove to remove the dirt. Have at hand small sheets of sandpaper to remove whatever adheres.

To Keep the Hands Clean.-Before polishing the stove rub lard under the finger nails. Dilute the polish in a saucer with water or vinegar, and apply with a common dishwashing mop. Draw over the hand a small paper bag, and polish with a flannel or other cloth.

Or use a polishing mitten, but the liquid blacking will work through the polishing mitten and soil the hands, whereas the paper bags can be changed as fast as they become soiled. water. - If the hands become soiled with blacking, first rub them thoroughly with lard, then wash with soap and Stove Blacking. - Dissolve 1/2 ounce of alum in 1 gill of soft water.

Add 6 pounds of plumbago mixed with 12 ounces of lampblack. Stir vigorously. Stir in 1½ gills of molasses, next bar of white soap dissolved in 3 pints of water, and lastly 1 ounce of glycerin. This is a commercial article which has a great reputation. Or beat up the whites of 3 eggs and mix in pound of black lead.

Dilute with sour beer or ale to the consistency of cream, and boil gently for 15 or 20 minutes.

Or mix 8 ounces of copperas, 4 ounces of bone black, and 4 ounces of black lead with water to the consistency of cream.

Or melt 1 pound of hard yellow soap with a little boiling water, and while hot stir in 1 pound of powdered soft coal. Cool, and preserve in tight fruit jars or wide-mouthed bottles for use.

Or mix 4 ounces of black lead with 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar, 1 teaspoonful of sugar, and a piece of yellow soap the size of a butternut, THE DAY'S ROUTINE Melt the soap with gentle heat and reduce while hot to the consistency of cream with coffee strained through a cheesecloth. Stir in½ teaspoonful of alum.

Or use vinegar instead of water for mixing any of the above. The work of polishing will not be so hard, and the polish will last longer.

Or mix with oil of turpentine.

This prevents and removes rust.

Or add a little sugar or alum to any of the above; or a little benzine or naphtha to help cut the grease.

If these are added the stove must be polished cold.

To Apply Polish. -Apply stove polish in liquid form by softening with a little vinegar or turpentine, and spread on with a dishwashing mop or wide painter's brush.

Or rub a piece of flannel with wet yellow soap. Dip it into dry pow- This dered blacking and apply. saves friction and makes the labor of polishing much. easier.