Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-08-19
Kitchen Furniture.

Never have dark furniture for a kitch-
en-. Ii shows the dust much more than
light and requires double the care. Never
have extra shelves or mantels painted dark
if you can help it. If it is your misfor.
tune to have dark painted furniture, wipe
ii once in few days with damp cloth,
and have it vanished often. Have your
sink in convenient place, but never I'M
der window if you can avoid ii, as much
work is caused by greasy dish-water spat
tering upon the windows as it necessarily
must Back of your sink nail up piece
of vanished paper, and then you can with
a wet cloth remove all spots that would
soon spoil wallpaper. If you are so for
tunaie as to have sink-room, have it pa
pered and then well vanished; in this case
every spot can be easily wiped off. The
sink should be lined with zinc, nailed
around the edges, as nails upon the bottom
rust and wear through, allowing water to
run under the sink, thereby causing the
boards 10 rot.
Good zinc can be kept nice and bright
by securing every week or two with sand,
and rubbing all over once or twice day
with soft soap, scalding and wiping dry.
At one side have place to put the water.
pail on, which always keep covered, day
and night; an uncovered WATERFALL is a
slack thing. Nailed upon the back of the
sink have little box, perforated through
the bottom, to keep hard-soap in and, if
you have no better place, CASTLE soap and
a piece of pumice-stone TO remove stains
from your hands Your soft-soap keep
under the sink, which, we take for grant
ed, is boarded up, with door, where you
put your pots ard kettles, board to scour
knives upon, sand, ETC., and this place
should be kept as neat as your sitting
room. Just over the sink have narrow
shelf with holes through, to set your com.
mon tumblers upon when washed and
rinsed, that they may drain and dry, thus
saving the time and labor of wiping them
with dry cloth
At the other end OF the sink put up a
narrow strip TO set your kettle crickets on;
of these you should have two, one to set
your kettles on when washing and clean.
| ing them, and which should be kept under
the sink, in some odd nook-the other
should be smaller, and only be used to set
the kettles upon when filling, and there
| fore must be kept handy and clean, so if
you should be sick with a headache, pain
| in your side, or any little trifiing thing,
and should ask your kind husband to fill
| the tea-kettle, he would take the cricket
down TO set it on instead of setting il in
the sink-thus causing you more labor
| than it saves. He would be sure to do
this were the cricket under the sink, or so
black and nasty he could not touch it
without soiling his hands.
| And last, but not least, have light rack
made of strips of wood an inch wide, an
eighth of an inch thick and foot long,
nailed over one another, making rack
foot square, with both sides alike, to put
in your sink TO turn dishes upon while
washing, thus keeping them from touch
ing the sink-liable to be greasy and dirty
and draining them so that they will wipe
easily.
You may think, dear reader, that it
takes considerable to furnish sink
to suit our taste; but every one of these
things are around our sinks, and no one
would we dispense with, neither would
you after having seen how convenient they
are.-ManJacturer and Builder.