The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-25

HOW TO WASH DISHES
Best Methods of Perform
ing this Domestic Duty
Explained.
no NEED TO SPOIL THE HANDS
Decorations From Monarchs for
American Women-Pretty
Pointers.

AS the cold weather comes on lne
woman who has much of her own work
to do finds the same Old annoying question
confronting her-How am 1 TO keep my
hands presentable, and yet do all that
duty and necessity require of me?
1t is a very hard thil.g to do. says the
Philadelphia Press. yet it can be done
very a~cceptably with just a little trouble,
for it is not the work that %roughens, but
the lack of care after it. that makes the
hands of so many women who do house
work such unsightly objects. Wetting
the hands in cold weather produces
roughness and chaps, that is if they are
not dried well before going out into the
air. A good rule is never to do anything
without gloves on that can be done with
them. Have an old pair of kid gloves
and before sweeping. busting or going to
do any other work. pull them on. It
takes but a moment, and the trouble
amply repays one, even in the summer,
in keeping the hands daintily smooth
and white. There are rubber gloves for
rougher work. The prices are from one
dollar to two II a half, according to
the length. but they are high priced in
that they veal out quickly.
An excellent way to keep the hands
from ugly roughness in winter is a lib
eral use of mutton tallow. The next
time you have a roast of mutton for din
ner carefully remove a good bit of the
lace-like film of fat that should cover
the skin side of a good piece, cut it into
bits and set it on the a of the stove
TO try out. Keep it in a china dish or
old cup for use. In the morning after
washing the hands and before beginning
the usual work. rub the hands and wrists
well with a little of the tallow. Then
you will find them i~mperyious to chaps,
as water hardens the tallow and causes
it to adhere. When the rough work of
the morning is done, with a good soap
and warm water wash the hands thor
oughly, moistening them with a drop of
glycerine and cologne rubbed in thor
oughly. A good rule for keeping the
skin fair and smooth is never to retire
at night without washing the face,
hands and neck in warm water. A good
bath is better. but not possible for every
body who could wish to enjoy it. Then
while the skin is still moist and warm
rub into it a little, good olive oil. mutton
taIlow or glycerine as is convenient, and
the woman Ohio follows the custom reli-
giously will see not only a fr%eshening
i'll a faded, starved skin, but a longer re-
SpftS lIOLu ulSlS uEiIS, ulSASdI lSilluS
wrinkles. which the biting cold and CRIME
of cold weather does SO much to foster
and induce.
THE ART OF DISHWASHING.
Apropos of the care of the hands is
the subject of washing dishes. Dish
washing is the bette noir OF almost every
woman who has a general round OF
dishwashing looked at in a proper light
is like the cooking of food a very
dainty task. and should be done by those
who have a most delicate SenSe OF clean
illness. Dishes that are not properly
washed always tell the tale when
brought into use. and the most costly
articles of glass and china lose their
beauty when subject to poor or careless
treatment.
would perhaps do her work well if the
necessary materials were at hand, but
no one can do much with little. Every
a separate vessel for the dining room
china, glass n silver, separate from
that used in the kitchen. Plenty of table,
tiful shine the experienced eye knows
what they lack in treatment.
Though this dish washing should be
satisfactorily; SO seldom so that one has a
gorge-disturbing sensation when asked to
use the m4rky, glasses, the dr1-look-
ing cups and lack-lustre plates.
Go back in your mind over the long
list OF maids to whom you entrusted the
washing of the dishes and see how few
of them acquitted herself to your salts
faction. Phoebe might have washed them
clean, but she cast them into the closet
pell nell, without the least suspicion of
order. breaking many delicate plates by
piiing heavier ones on top, cracking thin
cups by tanning larger ones into them
and such like. Rachel put them away dis
gracefully smeared, with as little order
plates held together by a little sediment
of thickened water and had to be care
fully separated before using.
A salad of mackerel and the same kind
made of sardines is very much relished
on our table, but is seldom ipdulged in as
both kinds of fish are so per1neating that
the taste cfings to spoons and forks after
who take sufficient trouble to remove it.
She explains with a deprecatory roll of
her eyes and a great display of ivories:-
"Yas'm, / done wash them, but len ar
sargeans is de strongeS' fish dey is. Hit
takes I've to git hit off.
NEVER SPOILED HER RING.
I knew a dear old lady, married years
and years ago. among WHOSE wedding
1t was highly priced ard the best kept
intact, though used constantly. Her en-
gagement ring was a circle of pearls and
guard to her wedding ring. She always
washed her him after each meal, put
ting 1t away carefully, and so daintily
did she do 1t that her ring was unirjured
as any lady could desire.
After each meal the maid brought a
small tub, hot water and the snowy tow
els into the ante room; then the lady
quickly and deity washed and wiped her
precious china, arranging it carefully in
her china closet.
TT takes but a moment" she always
said, land the dishes are beautifully
clean. while none of them ave been
nicked or cracked yet"
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