SUCCESSFUL WASHING Up.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 386, 31 March 1932, Page 14

SUCCESSFUL WASHING Up.

Dishes and silver will never look nice unless they are washed-up in plenty of warm, soapy water apd dried with clean cloths. Soap powder removes every trace of grease and leaves the surface of china and silver glossy and clean. Soda does not take its place, though a little soda used in the water to soften it is a great help. A rinse under the tap or in a pan of clean water should be given the china after washing it in soapy water. Jf there is a draining rack, so much the better, for a cloth will not be needed. Glass and table silver should be wiped whilst still warm from the suds with a clean, dry cloth, and glasses need a final polish with a clean, soft cloth to make them sparkle. If silver is rubbed with a chamois leather it will not need cleaning so often. If you have a coke boiler in the kitchen—these boilers are found in the majority of modern houses—then you are sure to have an abundance of hot water at all times. If you have not, and your hot water system does not give you all the hot water you need for washingup, you would be advised to install a small gas-heated water boiler near the scullery sink. A small gas-jet kept alight continuously burns but little gas, but keeps the water always liot.