The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25
RAPID DISH WASHING.
How to Handle the Dishes %
Render the Task Easy
and Agreeable.


| In order 10 make dishwashing agree
able everything must be done rapidly.
Strip the tables of everything except
the dirty dishes, throw dishpan on
table and pile into IL all the dishes
without regard TO system OF arrang-
ing. DO not bother about grease in
quantities, gravy, or bread crumbs.
Pile them all in MS fast as You can put
them in. Then take a small amount
OF soap powder OF any kind and throw
this on top OF them; then pour hot or
almost boiling water all OYER them in
good quantities. This will take oil the
grease and all dirty matter from them.
Then lift them out OF the water as fast
as possible. 1t will be found that II
will not he necessary to rub them at
all, but they viii come out perfectly
clean and bright. Pils them onto tray
or table, or what is 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 completely inclosing the out
side of IL.
Then the other end OF the towel
should be brought up and pressed into
II with the fist and the whole mass
given a single twist, when il will be
found that every part of the cup will
be wiped with the cloth. Cups should
be dried at the rate of IS per minute.
Saucers should be placed against the
left. having the towel laid across il,
the other end brought up, and one sim
gle turn around the rim, with one rub
ON the back and one on the front, and
then laid down in n pile. Plates similar
| ly. Plates should be dried at the rate OF
60 per minute. Knives and forks and
spoons should be placed in the hot wa
ter only for a second or so, and bunch
| taken in the hand and touched with the
dishcloth all around to remove any spe-
cially dirty spots, 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 il will hold,
| place them in the left against the towel,
with the end the most handles are in
! tightly i'm the left hand. Then take
the other end OF the towel i'm the right
hand and slightly 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, az the same time moving IL
toward the drawer. AS the towel slides
over the handle IL will be found the
knife will then drop into the drawer
| OF it's own accord. Knives and forks
should be dried at the rate of about four
10 the second. A little experience in
these practices and IL will be found
that all the dishes of an ordinary fam.
lily can be washed i'm the space Of about
2b minutes. / have seen 200 plates
washed and dried in IA minutes on
board one of the ocean liners In re-
gard to polishing silver. the best way
is TO pile il all into dishpan and throw
in some soap powder and some whiting
also. and then pour the hot water on:
then give them stir all together and
lift them all out. The boiling water
heating them up will cause them to
dry almost Immediately. leaving a coat
ing OF the whiting on them; then wipe
them all at once with dry cloth. and
after they are all wiped once wipe them
all over again, when il will be found
they will look like diamonds. Phila-
delphia Times.