WAR TIME WASHING UP
BRITISH HOUSEWIVES ECONOMISE. British housewives are economising by buying as good pottery as their war-time incomes will allow. The war is teaching them to be more careful with tableware. Not only has much of their china and earthenware been lost in the general destruction of homes, but new supplies of decorated china and earthenware have now been officially reduced. The housewife has therefore to choose between the new plain, undecorated ware and real Wedgwood, Doulton, Spode or Worcester. Where she can, she is investing in first-class china, because it stands up to hard usage and resists chipping, “crazing” and breakage better than the cheaper sort. And the war is even teaching British housewives and their menfolk to “wash up” with greater care than in the old days, avoiding scalding hot water or abrasive cleaning powders and warming the plates for their rations in a rack over the cooker rather than in a hot oven.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1942, Page 4
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158WAR TIME WASHING UP Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1942, Page 4
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