The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-15
Kate Hinton
Hints to
HouSekeeperS

Housekeepers
Did you really know that
hOUSPkeeper has good time
when she goes to buy things for
the house," Aunt Mary has come
to visit US. while her new house
is being finished and as she lost
practically everything when her
old house was burned she must
buy her new house furnishings
from the parlor 10 the kitchen.
or rather from the Kitchen TO the
psrIor ] should say. after seeing
what a good time she and Mother
had in the house furnishing de
partment. She began with an
enamel-top table, because she
said il was so easy to keep clean;
then she and Mother argued
whether she should have enamel
or aluminium cooking utensils.
Mother held out for enamel ware
because it looks so white ana
lovely, but Aunt Mary decided
that she wanted aluminium, and
after l heard the merits OF each
described by the &alespeople l
realized that it is purely a mat
ter of personal choice which one
YOU use. Aunt Mary bought al
most every kind of pan and ket-
tie and boiler in aluminium, in
the Aladdin make. which fea-
lures a handle on all the kettles
that is so made that il does not
fall down against the vessel and
get too hot to touch, and also
features a kind OF lid that fits
into, instead OF onto, so cannot
slip of. Then she bought a num-
Der OF things in the Pyrex glass.
that is so nice to have because
you can serve things in the dish
that they are cooked in.
or course she bought hreless
cooker, and a kitchen cabinet.
and a Refrigerator, a big lovely
white enamel one. and garbage
pals, and a new kind Of mouse
trap, and all sizes OF white enam
eled bins for -four. sugar. tea and
have white things in the kitchen
to show the brightness Of the
aluminium, and anyhow | believe
that all housekeepers just love
white enameled things because
they show dirt quickly and can
be so easily kept clean.
When Mother and Aunt Mary
stopped to look at the Hoover
Wizard mops and cleaners they
had as much fun as ! would have
had At the millinery opening, and
I must say that even / WAS inter
ested to learn how useful a sue
tinn cleaner is, but ] believe that
] know one use that the demon
strator did not tell. for / heard
a girl say that she always clean
ed her wooden coats and dresses
with the suction cleaner. because
il took out the dust and dirt so
much better than brushing. The
Wizard mops and brushes had so
many uses that | just DECIDED
that when ] keep. house Twill
never have q specE or spot or
dirt anywhere about me, and that
is some decision to come to, Isn't
it.
Then We stopped to see the new
churn that makes two pounds OF
butter from one pound OF butter
and a pint OF milk. II does more
things than that. too, for il
makes two pounds OF lard in the
same way, chuTns buttermilk.
beats batter bread. ice cream,
and almost everything else you
can think Of ! wish / had count
ed the number that were sold
while we were standing near,
drinking a glass OF the really de
licious buttermilk.
There were 80 many new aids
to houGekeepers some OF these
tiny little articles that mean
great big helps in making the
household machinery roll smooth
er. and with the spring house
cleaning days so near at hand l
do hope that every houSekeeper
In Washington will just take the
elevator to the fifth floor and see
for herself the many new fash
ions" the latest spring modela."
in kitchen furnishings, and she
will surely be glad that such q
hint came from
KATE HINTON.