New-York tribune., 1921-01-02

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Kirkl*ad. Published by I1oughton MI.
min Company.
4 MONG other pertinent things
~ which Winifred Kirkland dis
cusses in her volume Of es-
says The View Vertical, there is
TIE subject Of dishwashing Not. as
some may reason, pretty theme:
but in these truculent days Of every
family doing it's own any fresh bulle-
tin from the dishwashine front should
merit attention.
"Exalt dishwashing to the plane of
ceremony" suggests Miss Kirkland.
and see what happens. Even the
initial movement merits the dignity Of
an argument--whethe it Is better TO
scrape and stack in the dining room
OF to transfer the clutter to tho kitchen
table before arrangement. The first
method has the advantage of more i'm
mediate conciseness, but the latter
prevents the flirting of gravy or egg on
the table linen, with all the resultant
upheaval in the napery seqSence Of
the week
Amt It Nice Work.
"There are health and healing in
dishwashing when it moves to a
CHEEKY little ritual all its own. Let the
kitchen table be covered with oilcloth
white as milk and satiny as a mirror.
Arrange all first with symmetry
plates in a pyramid in which no sew
eral platter shall be out of plumb in
the mounting structure, and match
the silver, teaspoon to teaspoon, fork
to fork, thus, before and after washing.
Put ali the little pitchers in a COM
pany and the glasses, and the cups
Have all dishes scraped and rinsed to
the uttermost before the Anal rite Of
baptism'
Thus fsr we travel along in complete
accord with Miss Kirkland. She seems
to have a thorough grasp Of the fun
damentals. Perhaps she should have
brought out that in clearing the table
a conserving toiler keeps weather eye
out for dishes and silver that have not
been used. What more triumphant
sensation than pouhcing on a stray
salad fork and calling boisterously
"This is clean!"
But this is one of the finer points,
treatise. Not until Miss Kirkland
comes to the order of doing do we
come to actual blows. She writes:
A Question of Precedence
'In the ethics Of dishwashing the
law is pans first. There is deep wis
dom in attacking griddle and frying
pan with your first soapsuds and your
freshest energy and keeping the tempt
ing glassware and silver as the dessert
Of your efforts. After the sturdy stress
Of cleansing the cook pans the mere
dishes are a moro eaeeful encounter"
While it may be presuming to open
debate with lady on subject until
recently regarded as belonging cxclu-
sively to the feminine domain. we
maintain that in all the best Kitchens
where we have slung a mean dish mop
the following order has prevailed:
Glasses, silver, china, pots, pans, coffee
pot, breadboard, dishpan. sink.
This may be q purely utilitarian
view of the situation, never to be &C
cepted by Miss Kirkland's "kitchcn
poet amid her soapsuds," but in the
end it pays. Only kitchen blessed
with plenty Of hot water and long
line Of dry towels could stand up
under the strain Of her system.
China and Glassware First
Absolutely, according to our way Of
thinking, the first soapsuds, the fresh
towels and the early enthusiasm belong
to the glassware and china. It is the
one last tribute to pay satisfying
meal. The water past it's first fresh
ness and the wet towels will do we'll
enough for tho pots and pans. And,
personally, we prefer to enter the lat
ter stage in that cooled, "don't-care"
spirit which permits one to overlook
the black spot on the bottom of the
kettle. 1t will only get burned again
the next time the kettle is used
Although one may find points Of dis
agreement with Winfred Kirkland's
writing, all of it is readable, and
much Of it is entertaining. Whether
rambling on about "the pleasures of
the proposition" or marveling at the
abundance Of domcstics that people
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