. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . SILVERWARE Much care needs to be exercised to keep the silverwarebright and free from scratches. Knives, forks, and spoonsshould not be handled together promiscuously. A good mixture for polishing silver may be made asfollows: Take four ounces of Avhiting and boil in onepint of soft water. Cool, and add one ounce of should be bottled and kept for daily use. Rub the silverware with a cloth wet in this mixture,and polis
. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . SILVERWARE Much care needs to be exercised to keep the silverwarebright and free from scratches. Knives, forks, and spoonsshould not be handled together promiscuously. A good mixture for polishing silver may be made asfollows: Take four ounces of Avhiting and boil in onepint of soft water. Cool, and add one ounce of should be bottled and kept for daily use. Rub the silverware with a cloth wet in this mixture,and polish with a piece of cotton flannel or chamois. HOME-MADE SILVER CLOTHS Cloths for daily use in polishing silverware may be pre-pared by dipping them into a solution made by boiling twoounces of carbonate of ammonia in a pint of soft soft pieces of muslin, cheese-cloth, or cotton flannelinto this solution and hang them up to dry, without wring-ing. When dry, these may be laid away for use. Simplyrub the silver with these cloth*, and its appearance will be Kitchen and Pantry 131 Economy is a fine things, and makes ninepence go fartherthan a Cloth Case for Silverware much improved. This is not supposed to take the place offormal scouring. TO PREVENT SILVER PROM TARNISHING When the silverware has been properly cleaned, wrapeach piece separately in tissue-paper, and it will not tar-nish if laid away for almost any length of time. It isan excellent plan tomake bags out of un-bleached cotton flannel,especially for the knives,forks, and spoons. Thechemicals used in bleach-ing tend to tarnish sil-ver. Make them double,leaving an opening inone end, and stitching so as to insert each article in aspace by itself. These should be large enough to holdabout a dozen pieces. Placed in bags of this kind, they caneasily be rolled and tied up, and put away. CUT GLASSIn cleaning cut glass, wash the article, dry, and thenrub with prepared chalk, using a soft brush, and goingcaref
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