Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-09-03
T1Rw AND
WASHING
From Hearth & Home.l


from Hearth & Home.1
Like the same little spicy body who [
has been taking the words rom m
mouth, I have had dreaFy lime win
my dishes. "Clearing NJ" is b PEN :
alfv OF dining. Well for those who Z
have only to strike y nell-hote ana
sail away TO tranquil paItorss
leaving the diaheartening ruins Of the
FEAST 70 faitbfuI servants, whose sober
wishes never learn to stray beyond
dishpAns and orderly pantries buCfor
that great middle world OF hostess
ss who have pleasant little dinners ana
no servants, why try to say that dish
washing is pleasant, or a mere tr1ntng
duty. OF any thing huf odious ahd
gfovellinRT
RE times. are ,pumberless when
have wished my FINANCES would Pefn1I
me to whisk up the tablesglOth and all
is contents-after picking out q little
favorite silver, mRybe-and hGrl .
down into some b0ttOmtes8 apNss IEom
which there could be no official returns.
Nothing but the WantOn q DarDar-
10 pronigacy Of this plan-iron-stone
being then ct war prtces-prevenGeo
me from carrying 1t out.
JUS imagine The prOmptitude with
which the diniDg-table could be clear
INV love-" the husband might say,
a. the family rise from dinner. lets
90 in the parior and have some mu-
GTn n moment, DEAR b wife
could respond just wait till 40 the
And then with one dextrous mOve-
meDt she could lift the cloth and It's
contents Fl ION the table, huTl 1t away,
and the dishes would be "done
But this, Of course, is nothing but en-
agreeable phantasys So far from max
ing it a reality, it is shocking enough
10 break even one dish don't know
how many times my heart has leaped
into my mouth over the
mere mishap Of dropping a plate, or
losing my hold on a soapsudsy saucer.
mistress of herself, tho china fall"
How dimly the world Is aware OF the
awful ~self-control depicted in that n
linRl
Yes, indeed we not only refrain
from breaking dishes, but we wash
them over and over again, stoically
sometimes, but With pleasure very are
we can't oslIde down hill" as the
erratic little housekeeper1 have aIluoeo
TO sometimes yearns to do we cant
daily here and there In the sunshine,
deeamng brief bright day-dreams,
that are all brighter because they
are d waste Of time that ought to be
spent in the hateful WoTk-for there
are those fishes tbs graduated plies
of beuravied plates, the blackened
~
knives, the encrusted tins and lastly
o borrOrl the stewPans, the spider
and the gridiron
But, as / a. before Mtlulated, my
views of this particular housekeeping
duty have Undergone a change, and al
this writing / believe | have Il plan by
which dish-washing can be made more
agreeable, and it is this Always have
DISHES that you love
III 1t is possible 10 regard chins
R-ffp1ffOsfRtalV and tn feel a tender III
tereSt In cut-glass.
hGUe CHINA and cut glass 9Th
best ID the cheapst," to say nothing o
elegance. Happily many of your sen
STOLE reconsideration may not haV'
this pet weakness of mine-a weakness
for far, frail china, n clear, glisten
ing glass-bu6 1 never shah believe Il
If that legendary old serpent hal
tempted Eve with 3 seq 2
Sevres, instead Ofan apple, l am afrai'
the fall would have BEEN material,
hastened, and IbeIieve Eve would haY
washed her dishes to The end OF he
dsys with an ~uniagging delight.
It was the discovery of china ant
cut-glass hat recently led me to b
half In love with DISTINGUISHING. 1t wa
"disoovered" at the sacrifice OF my nev
bonnet, my new spring suit, and-can
dor compels me to confess tia new
carpet for the par1or but the rednel
splendor Of my table touches my re
modelled "Fanchon" with grace
soothes me for the loss of a new suit
and almost obliterates the threadbar
spot that has been spreading" itself il
the centre of my best carpet.
New bOnnets and dresses and carpet
are perishable things, but my dishe
are things Of beauty that seem to grow
the more beautiful every time I was
them. OF course, I use them ever.
day, Nothing can be too good for eV
cry day-unless it be IemOn-pjes-anl
what IS nice for company is certsinl.
nice Tor Augustus and myself.
And b it is so difficult to go bacl
to ironstone after having used then
nee !! Tt is impossible TO know, excsp
from fair and repeated experience. tn
great difference atWesR-teR-iD q cup o
common granife-Ware and tea in a Gu
of ethereal, transparent china. Thu
first, at its best. is tea. The latter il
this poetry of tea.
Washing such dishes, is a pleasurt
rather h otherwise. To be sure tn
inevitable pots and ksttles still haY
their terrors for me, but / find there ]
nothing gained by diminishing sroun
them. Do them as one should tax
salts-without much previousre1ectiO
onthe subject land before you 81
aware of it they are done.
After I bad secured my pet dishes,
bought the biggest and brightest Il
pan the market afforded to Wash theV
in, made three distinctive graded disl
clotbs TO wash them with, snd hemme
q dozen towels of soft "bird's-eye
with which to polish them, and hs
the cloeet-sheIves painted snow.Whi
in honor of them and, in short, THAI
made a fine art of a work that was on'
as repugnRnt TO me as to-her !
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