her IcMtmutgdr -wasliing up, in the present, with his own
hands. Plate, glass, teacups and breakfast cups, &c., should
be washed in the pantry. Dinner plates and dishes should
be washed either in anotlier scullery, if available, or in the
verandah ; for if the pantry and scullery w'ork are done
together, there is no possibility of keeping the pantry as
it should be — sweet, clean, and free from flies. In addition,
there is a certainty that the same greasy water will be used
for plates and cups alike.
The pantry should be provided wdth a w'ashing-up table,
and at least three M'ooden or tin tubs. A supply of cold
water can easily be secured by placing a cask against one of
the outside walls with a few inches of leaden pipe, and a tap
inside, while a sink below the tap is also easily made to con-
nect w'ith a removable zinc tub outside. 'I'his will be found
a great convenience, and, as such, an immense help towards
cleanl^f habits. The cask should be filled by the bheesti every
day, and the tub emptied morning and evening by the
sweeper. I'lie scullery or verandah should also have a
washing-up table, a plate rack, and at least two wooden
tubs, and a pail for scraps.
In regard to dusters, tea-cloths, &c., the supply must be
much larger than is necessary for an English household. The
best plan is to give out the week’s supply to the bearer, and
make him responsible for issuing the fixed daily number of
clean cloths, and taking back the same number of soiled
ones. Otherwise your fine glass cloths will be used for
scrubbing the kettle, and being black with grease and dirt,
will fall to pieces in a few washings from the manipulation
necessary to remove the filth.
One thing must be fought against root and branch, and
that is the extraordinary want of forethought, and desire to
save themselves much washing-up, which leads every khil-
viutgdr to vary his waiting at table by constant dives into the
pantry, whence he returns breathless with a hastily-wiped
sj)oon or a forgotten butter-knife. Everything required for
each meal should be in the dining-room before that meal is
announced, and a running accompaniment of washing should
be ruthlessly repressed. If milder measures fail, lock the
pantry door before sitting down to meals for a few days, and
fine one for every missing article. Good habits are
Housekeeper and Cook
75
quickly learned when there is no possibility of continumg
bad ones. In regard to details of the khiimutgar n duties,
it will, perhaps, be as well to begin with the things he is to
leave undone, since his offences are by no means of the
negative order. , , ^ i
Therefore he should not lay the table for any meal nioie
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her IcMtmutgdr -wasliing up, in the present, with his own
hands. Plate, glass, teacups and breakfast cups, &c., should
be washed in the pantry. Dinner plates and dishes should
be washed either in anotlier scullery, if available, or in the
verandah ; for if the pantry and scullery w'ork are done
together, there is no possibility of keeping the pantry as
it should be — sweet, clean, and free from flies. In addition,
there is a certainty that the same greasy water will be used
for plates and cups alike.
The pantry should be provided wdth a w'ashing-up table,
and at least three M'ooden or tin tubs. A supply of cold
water can easily be secured by placing a cask against one of
the outside walls with a few inches of leaden pipe, and a tap
inside, while a sink below the tap is also easily made to con-
nect w'ith a removable zinc tub outside. 'I'his will be found
a great convenience, and, as such, an immense help towards
cleanl^f habits. The cask should be filled by the bheesti every
day, and the tub emptied morning and evening by the
sweeper. I'lie scullery or verandah should also have a
washing-up table, a plate rack, and at least two wooden
tubs, and a pail for scraps.
In regard to dusters, tea-cloths, &c., the supply must be
much larger than is necessary for an English household. The
best plan is to give out the week’s supply to the bearer, and
make him responsible for issuing the fixed daily number of
clean cloths, and taking back the same number of soiled
ones. Otherwise your fine glass cloths will be used for
scrubbing the kettle, and being black with grease and dirt,
will fall to pieces in a few washings from the manipulation
necessary to remove the filth.
One thing must be fought against root and branch, and
that is the extraordinary want of forethought, and desire to
save themselves much washing-up, which leads every khil-
viutgdr to vary his waiting at table by constant dives into the
pantry, whence he returns breathless with a hastily-wiped
sj)oon or a forgotten butter-knife. Everything required for
each meal should be in the dining-room before that meal is
announced, and a running accompaniment of washing should
be ruthlessly repressed. If milder measures fail, lock the
pantry door before sitting down to meals for a few days, and
fine one for every missing article. Good habits are
Housekeeper and Cook
75
quickly learned when there is no possibility of continumg
bad ones. In regard to details of the khiimutgar n duties,
it will, perhaps, be as well to begin with the things he is to
leave undone, since his offences are by no means of the
negative order. , , ^ i
Therefore he should not lay the table for any meal nioie