Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20

that and place it near for the dishes when
clean.
Before washing them get them ready for
the pan-that is to say. scrape the plates
as clean as they can be in order not to put
a lot of grease and dirt into the water
pile the plates together. have the cups all
in one place. the glasses IN a group. and
all the small silver laid In heap with the
handles together.
Wash the glasses first in water from
which the soap has been taken out Do
hot enough they will almost dry them
selves, They may be lifted from the pan
with a mop handle. Turn them upside
down to drain. and then with a fresh towel
wipe them. Put each on the tray IL is
dry. so that 1t may be returned To the din
ing room in one trip After the glasses
wash the tea or coffee cups. proceeding
with the glasses. Then. there being no
grease yet in the water, put in all the
small silver. Let that stay in and over it
put the plates, a few at a time. After
several of those are washed il is we'll to
turn out the water and put in fresh. let
ting IL run on the soap to form a Suds.
Finish washing the plates. then wash the
silver, ana lastly do the vegetable dishes
or platters.
Dish towels that are not -rinsed often
require hard scrubing to get clean. and a
woman doing her own work VIII find that
she a lot Of strength by rinsiug
hers after each time Of using. Pour the
water from the dish pan, wipe il out well,
that all grease may be removed. and then
swash the towels up and down i'm soapy
water. 1t will rarely be necessary to rub
soap on them if this system is followed.
Rinse in clear water and hang on rack.
which should be kept near the sink for
that purpose. One on the wall viii take
no room in the smallest kitchen.
Carry the tray to the dining room and let
it stay there for a moment with the dishes
on II, while you return to the kitchen and
with a cloth kept for the purpose wipe
well around the sink to keep IL clean and
dry and brush the floor. With a soft
brush any crumbs or dirt come up easily.
and If this is done once a day the floor
will never look uutidy.
BY this time the kitchen is in apple pie
order.
Whether one gets ready then things for
dinner or goes on to other Homework may
be as one wishes. | prefer getting out din
ner things. that it may not be necessary to
return to the kitchen until lunch time. To
go back constantly to the same kind of
work Is not only monotonous but firing.
Therefore get out the vegetables one Is
to have. wash or prepare them ready for
cooking. If potatoes. or anything to boil.
they will keep fresh in cold water. Meats
or the like may be put into the refrigerator.
Fix the salad or dessert and put the meat
in a pan. season and have II all ready TO
pop into the oven. Dinner takes an aston
ishingly short time to get later when
everything is made ready in the morning.
Arrange at the same time what you VIII
have for lunch, usually simple meal for a
woman alone. and have that so ii may be
put the table in a second
This preparation has probably soiled more
dishes. which should be washed and put
away Now the kitchen is not only tidy
again, but all the dirty part of cooking is
done
Now one may indeed leave and go to the
dining room. The breakfast dishes are put
away in a moment and there is then the
chamberwork to do 1t is well to brush up
a little each day, from the fact that it
avoids having one day of the week given
up to hard sweeping. kind of work most
difficult and eXhausting to woman unac-
customed to it
The bath room. too. requires wiping up
every morEing--the washstand and tub,
that is to say-and should never be neg
lected.
Next to the chamberworls do the sitting
room or parlor Brush that little, dust.
and IL there are lamps to fill take them
after that room is in order and do all at
once. Do not go to the kitchen with
lamp from each room.
Those filed, and put back in their places.
almost the last bit of daily routine house
keeping is done. There Is the dinner table
to be set and If this is done directly after
luncheon, the dishes required for serving
taken then to the kitcheu.,a woman may
go out and stay the entire afternoon, find
ing little to be done when she returns, save
to put things the stove. She VIII be able
to wear fresh dress and keep herself neat
and attractive for the evening.