TO PRESERVE GILT ON CHINA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8, 10 January 1902, Page 8

TO PRESERVE GILT ON CHINA.

Nearly all requests of this kind come from young beginners in housekeeping, but this varies from the others. She says, she should have learned in this time, but has been very unfortunate, also, In breaking some very handsome pieces. If you wish to be successful with such work let me advise you to never turn it over to some one else. Much of the trouble comes from this practice. It is considered noblesse oblige to wash your handsome china, says our dear old grandmother. One especially wishes to preserve family pieces of o-ilt-banded china. The housewife of limited means can save a good deal by mending broken pieces of china with this cement; it is also good tor olassware. Marion Harland told me _f this recipe, and she used it very successfully. It is made of plaster of Paris and a thick solution of gum arabic. Make a paste of the two, and apply to the broken edges with a brush and carefully unite the broken parts, and set away to dry. For mending stoneware the plaster of Paris may be mixed with water and must be used at once, for it soon hardens. In washing china, of course you must avoid a too sudden change from cold to heat. No soap should be used about glassware or these dainty pieces of hand-painted china. When you wash them prepare a warm suds of pearline and wash them singly; never put two pieces in together; rinse through a clear, warm water, and dry quickly on a soft linen towel, and rub the glass to polish highly with tissue paper. 1 consider this a valuable recipe for mending china, and it will be worth many dollars to you. Wash every piece of your gilt china yourself; you follow this recipe, and you will have them many years from now.