This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...shiny black stove is most attractive, but have you ever thought that, as the polish burns off the stove, the particles are really passing off into the room; and stove blacking is made of mineral substances. Do you also know that if you wash a stove, rub it with oil, and never let it rust, that it really presents a very ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...shiny black stove is most attractive, but have you ever thought that, as the polish burns off the stove, the particles are really passing off into the room; and stove blacking is made of mineral substances. Do you also know that if you wash a stove, rub it with oil, and never let it rust, that it really presents a very neat appearance. This of course applies to gas, kerosene, and any other stove. Kerosene will remove grease from a stove and keep the nickel finish bright. Occasional cleaning in the kitchen. If there are grease spots from the sputtering of something on the stove, this should be wiped off just after it has happened; but the painted ceiling and wall must be washed off with a piece of outing cloth wrung out from warm water or softened with a small quantity of ammonia or kerosene. There are soft long-handled brushes made for washing off the ceiling and upper parts of the wall, and one of these should be added to the broom closet as soon as possible. The kitchen paint is washed in the same way. It is not necessary to scrub the floor with a hand brush and on one's knees in these days, or to have a dirty mop. One can use a scrubbing brush with a long handle. For wiping up, use in place of a mop a piece of rather heavy soft cloth and push it about with a tool of this description. The handle is long, and on the cross bar is a piece of rubber which holds the cloth down so that you can move it about from place to place. The cloth can be boiled out and dried in the sunshine when the process is over. Once in a while Miss James has the floor of her kitchen in the Ellen H. Richards House oiled. The mats in the kitchen are taken outdoors in sunny dry weather, and the curtains at the closets are very easy to wash and iron. The cushions in the comfortable chai...
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