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Updated: September 23, 2025
Under the sink are shelf-boxes placed on two shelves run into grooves, with other grooves above and below, so that one may move the shelves and increase or diminish the spaces between. The shelf-boxes can be used for scouring-materials, dish-towels, and dish-cloths; also to hold bowls for bits of butter, fats, etc. Under these two shelves is room for two pails, and a jar for soap-grease.
She was mixing cereal, storing cold potatoes and cut bread, soaking dish-towels. But these things did not belong to the duties of Norma and Rose, and the younger girl could flash with a free conscience to the little room she shared with Rose. Wolf had called out for a companion, they were going to take a walk and see what the blizzard had done!
When we got through, blest ef she didn't ask me to wash out the dish-towels while she filled the lamps! Now " The growing amazement in the round, open eyes and shaking curls of her audience brought Rebecca once more to a standstill. Evidently some further explanation of this unwonted state of things would be expected.
Ivory discolors and cracks if wet. Bristol-brick finely powdered is the best polisher, and, mixed with a little water, can be applied with a large cork. A regular knife-board, or a small board on which you can nail three strips of wood in box form, will give you the best mode of keeping brick and cork in place. After rubbing, wash clean, and wipe dry. The dish-towels are the next consideration.
He looked with bitter attentiveness at the dingy frame cottage he was approaching, noticing each homely detail the dish-towels spread on the bushes in the back yard, the mop hanging by the door, the kerosene can under the step, the lean hen scuttling away under the currant bushes, the vegetable garden lying parched and dry along the fence.
I never fuss a cook, or ask how many eggs a cake requires, or remark that we must be using the lard on the hardwood floors. I never make any of the small jests on that order, with which most housewives try to reduce the cost of living. No; I really go out of my way to ignore the left-overs, and not once on this trip had I so much as mentioned dish-towels or anything unpleasant.
So I run out, and there were the clothes I'd hung on the little line some dish-towels, and two of my aprons, and one of Mr. Means's shirts down on the ground in the dirt, and the line was gone. Thinks I, 'Where's that line gone to? "I stood there gaping, I couldn't make head or tail of it.
Phronsie had carefully explained how the reason that the cups and saucers were all on the ground and the dish-towels thrown carelessly aside, was that they had gone away with Auntie, who couldn't be kept waiting. "Well, let's wash 'em up now," said Rachel, flying for one of the diminutive dish-towels. "I'm going to clean out the cupboard," declared little Dick, going back to his original purpose.
They did it all, even to washing and hanging out the dish-towels, in eleven and a half minutes that evening, Sylvia remembered. Then she and Judith went to sit on the porch on the little bench Mother had made them. They tried to see who could catch the first glimpse of the evening star every evening. Mother was putting Buddy to bed and Father was starting the breakfast cereal cooking on the stove.
Two or three large covered stone jars for pickles. One deep one for bread. One earthen teapot. One dozen pop-over cups. One dozen custard-cups. Measuring-cup. Scrubbing and blacking brushes. Soap-dish. Knife-board. Vegetable-cutters. Pastry-brush. Egg-basket. Market-basket. Broom. Brush. Dust-pan. Floor and sink cloths. Whisk-broom. Four roller-towels. Twelve dish-towels.
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