The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-09
RAPID DISH WASHING.
How to Handle the Dishes to
Render the Task Easy
and Agreeable.

In order to 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 it all the dishes
without regard to a system of arrang-
ing. Do not bother about grease in
quantities, gravy, or bread crumbs.
Pile them all in as 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 over them in
good quantities. This will take off the
grease and all dirty matter from them.
Then lift them out of the water as fast
as possible. 1t will be found that it
will not be necessary to rub them at
all, but they will come out perfectly
clean and bright. Pile 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
~, thus completely inclosing the out
side of it.
Then the other end of the towel
should be brought up and pressed into
it with the fist and the whole mass
given a single twist, when it 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 it,
the other end brought up, and one sin
gle turn around the rim, with one rub
on the back and one on the front. and
then laid down in 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
a 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 towel in 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, at the same time moving it
toward 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 experience in
these practices and it will be found
that all the dishes of an ordinary fam
lily can be washed in the space of about
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 it all into a 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 a dry cloth. and
after they are all wiped once, wipe them
all over again, when it will be found
they will look like diamonds.-Phila-I
delphia Times.