The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
DISH WASHING.
An Eye Opening.
Method for House
keepers.
THERE'S SCIENCE IN IT.
Drying Cups at the Rate
Of Eighty-five a
Minute.
THERE'S SCIENCE IN 1T.

In order to make dish washing agree
able everything must be done rapidly.
Strip the table of everything except the
dirty dishes. throw dish pan on table
and pile into it all the dishes without
regard to system of arranging Do not
bother about grease in quantities,
gravy or bread crumbs, advises the
Philadelphia Times Pile them all in as
fast as you can put them in. Then take
small amount of soap powder Of any
kind and thEow this on top OF them;
: then pour hot or almost boiling water
all over them in good quantities. This
will take or all the grease and all dirty
matter from them. Then take and lift
them out of the water as fast as pos
sible. 1t will be found that it win not
be necessary to rub them at all, shut
they will come out perfectly clean and
bright. ,s tssr+ nan
Pile them on to the tray or table, or
what ia handiest, and then begin to dry
them. Cups should be picked up with the
fingers and thumb of the right hand,
and the drying cloth should be laid
across the left hand. The cup should be
placed on the towel and grasped with
the left hand underneath it., thus COM
pletely enclosing the outside of 1t. EThen
the other end Of the towel should be
brought up and pressed Into it witch the
fist and the whole mass given single
twist, when it will be found that every
part Of the cup win be wiped with the
cloth. Immediately after lift the cup and
pl zee it conveniently at any nearby.
open space without regard TO position.
Cups should be dried at the rate of IS
per minute.
Saucers should be picked up singly by
the right hand, then placed against the
left, having the towel laid across it, the
other end brought up and one single
turn around the rim, with one rub on
the back and one on the front and then
laid down in a pile. Plates similarly.
Plates should be dried at the rate of so
per minute.
Knives and forks and Spoons should
be placed in the hot water only for
second or so. and bunch taken in the
hand and touched with the dishcloth
all round to remove any specially dirty
spot, then taken out in bunch and
piled or thrown ON the tray until they
are all out. Then lay the towel across
the left hand and pick up as many in
the right as it will hold, place them in
the left against the towel with the end
the most handles are in tightly in the
left hand. Then take the other end Of
the tower IN the rlSnl hanQ ana Sngnt-
ly separate one of the bunch in the left
and stand before the knife drawer and
slide the towel along the blade and back
again, and over the handle, at the same
time moving ii towards the drawer
As the towel Slides over the handle it
will be found the knife will then drop
into the drawer of its own accord.
Knives and forks should be dried at
the rate of about four TO the second. A
little expeEience in these practices and
1t will be found that all the dishes of
an ordinary family can be washed in a
space of about two and half minutes.
have seen 1900 plates washed and
dried in fourteen minutes on board onS
Of the ocean liners.
In regard to polishing silver, the best
way is to pile it all into a dish pan and
throw some soap powder and some
whiting also, and then pour the hot
water on; then give them a stir all to-
gether and lift them all out. The boiling
water heating them up will cause them
to dry aamost immediately, leaving a
coating Of the whiting on Them; then
wipe them all at once with a dry cloth,
ana after they are all wiped once, wipe
them all over again, when it will be
found they will look like diamonds.