Silver-Polishing Cloth
Dear Aunt Daisy, Years ago I had a recipe for making . dustless duster; and a polishing cloth, for use after washing table cutlery, etc. If you happen to have same, could you put them in your page? I should appreciate it very much.-* Grateful." Yes, I remember that recipe for a polishing cloth, and what a good idea it was! The proportions are 1 teaspoon of plate powder, 1 teaspoon of ammonia, and 1 teacup of cold water. Mix well together, dip a tea-towel in the mixture and soak it all up. Hang on the line to dry; and then simply dry the silver on this cloth after washing in hot water. Perhaps a final rub up with another clean cloth might make the silver brighter still. Here, too, is another mixture, supposed to be equally good-two tablespoons of ammonia, four of whiting, and eight of water. Soak the cloth, hang out to dry as before. The cloth may be a little dusty just at first. Then there is a useful mixture of which one puts a dessertspoonful in a bowl of hot water, and the silver is popped in it after washing, and then dried either with one of these prepared cloths, or even with an ordinary clean one, The silver never needs to be cleaned -such a long job-if this method is used, so keep the following recipe. SILVER-CLEANING MIXTURE: In one pint of boiling water melt the following: 1 tablespoon borax, 1. tablespoon whiting, 1 tablespoon washing soda, and I cup flaked soap. Keep it in golden syrup tins, and put a dessertspoonful in a bowl of boiling water. Then as you wash the silver, put it into the bowl and leave for ten minutes or so; then dry on a clean cloth. DUSTLESS DUSTER: This is simply a square of butter-muslin soaked in one of the good mop oils for twenty-four hours, and then dried. Put only a little of the mop oil into the tin supplied with the mop, and shut the duster in. It is just as well to use a coloured buttermuslin, for if you have white it so soon looks dirty and you feel bound to wash it before it is really necessary.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 81, 10 January 1941, Page 46
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373Silver-Polishing Cloth New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 81, 10 January 1941, Page 46
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