Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-25
Devices Tighten
K Gtchen Work

was trained to the Golden Rule OF dish.
washing, Help your busy hostess with
the dishes, even as you would that she
should wipe them for you"
You're like nirety-five and half other
women. Ellen" Daisy laughed. "She is
rare housekeeper, indeed, who does not
dread dishwashng. or course, It is
drudgery il you think sol As to the two
divisions of the cleansing. I hardly have
a choice, for l have eliminated the tea
! towel from my kitchen except for polish
ing the silver and glasses. can't even
say dread greasy dishwater any more.
for / don't have it
Such surprising doctrines nearly made
me drop the cups I was stacking. but
| remembered they we're Daisys best and
| gripped them hard well, lust pre-
tend I'm from Nilsson 4. Daisy, dear. I'm
willing to be showni"
To start at the beginning" Daisy be-
gan. most women do not commence the
work right and they are disgusted by
haphazard heaps of tableware not prop
erly prepared. When there were only two
| Of us l set the soiled dishes directly
upon a waitress tray and carried them
in one load to the kitchen, set my garb-
age strainer I'm the sink beneath the fau-
Get, rinsed the dishes in the running
water, and stacked them in regular piles,
all OF one kind together, upon the sink
drainboard at my right
That's a good method for a small
family. Since mine has trebled have
bought this wheeled tea cart with its two
trays and use it to carry out the dirty
dishes end leftover food and to return
the clean china to its cupboard With
SO many dishes to handle find it better
to scrape and stack them at the dining
table" She had nearly finished this
process, clearing each plate with
wadded paper napkin and using an
emptied vegetable dish to receive the
scraps. "a 1O-cent rubber plate scraper
or soft crust of bread might be used"
In the sunny kitchen we continued the
discussion OF the work in hand AS she
lifted the dishes TO the dralnboard Daisy
explained "a right-handed woman should
pile the soiled dishes at her right. upon
drainboard, table. shelf. tea cart or tall
box, and by thus routing the work from
right TO left she will avoid useless, waste
motions"
Two drainboards are most desirable.
but the second may be such a substitute
as my hostess mentioned. The empty
cart was wheeled beside the left-hand
board to receive the clean dishes. Daisy
then spread out a folding dishpan rack
of heavily timed steel ribbon, three
inches high, set her blue enamel pan upon
1t, filled it with warm water to which
soap powder was added. set crock of
scalding rinse water Immediately at her
left, in the sink. and a wire draining
rack upon the board Just beyond It. From
beneath the drainboard she drew out
stepladder stool, twenty-six inches high
and sat down to her task.
As my hostess washed and rinsed the
silver and glass. laying 1t in the rack to
drip. l wiped 1t and placed it upon the
cart Now sit in my chair and watch
me finish,' Daisy commanded, for
there is no more wtping. l find II so
restful to sit at this work. for 1t saves
me much energy that need worse for
other duties. 1 find one can work quite
as well and as rapidly, provided her
equipment is adjusted in height. My
stool is the same as the bed of the sink
and l sit a little sidewlse to get knee
room. The boards are six inches higher
than the sink bottom and in order to get
the pan nearly the same height l use this
stand"
Right there l can tell you a piece OF
news" 1 interrupted. There is a new
dishpan that has legs to raise It TO
more convenient height. The feet are
rubber tipped to keep from marring the
sink. 1t is oblong. this pan, instead of
round. and very capacious. Sink-protect-
ing is its principal idea and It has a
drain plug In the middle of the base and
beneath it is a sliding drawer of wire
mesh to strain the water and prevent
clogging the drain pipe
Good ideal You're waking up, Ellen
With such a start you may cease hating
dishes, too. Be sure to get a drain rack
when you go home. China sterilized by
boiling water dries quickly and is clean
Really. 1t is more sanitary method
than wiping with a cloth. OF course, a
little warm water will not do. but you
can save the rinse water to wash your
dishrag and clean the sink"
Daisy's dishcloth was new to me. being
Of stout, coarse cord knotted into an
open mesh. Daisy says when all women
can have unlimited supply OF hot water
or mechanical means of forcing water
under pressure over dishes the dishcloth
will be dispensed with. Until then,
choose a cloth that is rough. to give
much friction, and that is very open in
weave, letting suds swirl through holes
to make it easy TO cleanse after using
do you suppose we will ever have
machinery for washing dlshes?" I asked.
why. yes. Ellen. A household dish
washing machine is already a reality.
| actually saw one when visited Sister
Kate last month. 1t Is about the shape
of a babys bathtub enameled outside
and within, and with cover to pre-
vent splashing when in operation. Il
is of a size to sit I'm the sink or upon
dTainboard or table.
Kate puts the dishes into a special
wire basket. pours In scalding water
and washing powder. and turns the hand
wheel a few minutes. The suds have
been forced over and between the dishes
by fast-moving propeller wheel at one
end of the pan. outside OF the basket
After the washing she pulls a drain plug
and empties the water into the sink.
| The dishes are rinsed and sterilized by
a second application Of boiling water
and they dry in a jiffy The same ma
chine can be had with a small electric
motor attached. Kate said" As she fin
ished talking. Daisy slid the stepladder
stool back in place under the drain
| board.-Woman's World.