Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-17
Foe THE GIRLS.

So many of my girl friends have written
ME about what they can do Ito help NAM
ma it has occurred to me that few house
hold hints will not be out of place in our
column just fer once.
In the first place would impress upon
your minds, that from the cellar and kitchen
will go out The reputation of the house.
favorable or unfavorable. The bed rooms
may be hung with the daintiest fabrics and
the parlor be the pink of neatnesi; but if
only once the cellar and kitchen be found in
an un,idy condition, the impression upon the
mind of the person seeing it, is for all time.
Bear in mind then that whatever you neglect
or leave undone be sure these apartments
are never lacking in order.
When was little girl just like many of
you there was nothing so much enjoyed
doing as keeping the dish closets in or er.
could not tell the number of times have
counted over the pieces of ''our new dining
set at the same time putting eaci. piece in
its proper place that always being the place
where it would how to the best advantage
when the closet door was opened. If a cup,
saucer or plate were missing | would look
through all the cupboards where it was
liable to he. until found it and then with
what pride would place it, after washing it,,
with its mates.
would have you take great pains to pol
ish the glasses after washing them in clear
water into which very little soap or pearl
inc has been shaken. This is best done by
rubbing them briskiy with clean glass-lnen
towel.
Silver should be washed next, after which
drop it into, not too hot water, from which it
should be wiped and polished by rubbing
with a soft linen towel.
Cups and handled dishes follow next in
order These will require clean water.
If you would keep the handles free from the
dark stain that is too often seen around them
simply twist two or three sizes of bundle
twine together and pass it round the handle.
Hold the ends firmly between the thumb and
fl ger and pass the string ba * and forth sew
eral times. Ii This is done twice or even
once every week, no trace of neglect in this
direction will ever be seen.
Plates and fiat dishes should be rinsed in
hot water after the first washing.
Tins Should be dried either in the hot sun
or about the stove, else they will in time rust
along the seams and crossings, aud when
they become rusty they will very soon be
useless. hope you will take good care of
all you have whether it be much or little, for
in saving what you have is the great secret
of having enough and to spare.
great many very good housekeepers 100,
think it takes too much time to replace
knives and forks in 'cutlery case" after
ca b meal so they have . long piece of Can
ton flannel and start with one knife and fold
it over once, then place fork and roll over
again and so on placing knife and fork
rolling after each one. until all are closely
rolled up. Around this tie a ribbon Cat each
end) of some contrasting shade. and put in
the place usually set aside for this purpose.
Tea spoons. sugar shells-butter knives,
mustard spoons, sugar and olive tongues can
be treated after the same manner.
Fold table linen in the ironed creases and
place in q drawer or box for the purpose.
Never let water stand in the pitcher upon
the shelf, neither should milk or cream be
allowed to stand from one meal to the next
Pore the cream into a bowl and place it on
ice and be sure that the pitcher is washed
whenever it is used.
Never dip pitch, into water but pour the
water into the pitcher.
An INDIsPENsABLE ARTICLE.
II is not so very long ago that many of the
things which are in common use to day, and
u hich seem almost indispensable to US, were |
not known at all. Pins, for instance, first |
made their appearance in England near the !
end of the reign of Henry the Eighth, |
to~ard the end of the sixteenth century ; |
and even then they were so poorly made |
hat the heads were in the habit of dropping |
of. Consequently Parliament after while |
passed an act that no pins should be sold |
unless they had the ''headdes soudored taste
10 the shanke Of the pynne.' This made |
he manufacturers more careful. Since that |
lay there has been no desrth of pins which |
Ire not only sharp, but whose heads will
'tay on. And for the last fifty years and |
more the heads and the shafts have been
made of one piece. A Spanish negro in the
'eign of Queen Mary was the first person to
make needle, and it was not until l776 that
'ianos were heard of. Their Invention 10
los ascribed to German named Bachers.--
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