Running a Home

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7294, 2 August 1930, Page 19

Running a Home

If you want to reduce the physical effort attendant upon running a .home, you will see to it that, so far as is possible, the metal articles used both in tho decoration and the practical equipment of the house are of the order known, as “stainless,” and also that these stainless articles are treated correctly. For example, it is useless to give the doors glass handles ses in metal Tims which call only for a weekly rub from a chamoise, if you forget to instruct the maid accordingly. Directly she uses a spot of metal polish on their surface they will over after need its ministrations, and all tho advantage, of their stainless lacquer .surface will have been lost. The same applies to tho stainless, lacquered electric light fittings, tho stainless steam fender trappings, and so on. [ Stainless table silver .is less well known than a.s stainless knives, • yet its advantage is even greater ,for the weekly silver-cleaning can be a lengthy •business, especially when the design, of tho handles involves getting into crevices. Nor do enough households take advantage of the stainless lemon-cut-ters and fruit knives that are such great labour-reducers. Vegetable peelers of stainless material should'be in the drawer of every kitchen table.