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Show Silver Cleaned by Boiling It. An easy and effective method of cleaning furnished silverware, by boll-Ins boll-Ins in a soda and salt solution iu contact con-tact with a clean iice of aluminum or zinc, Is recommended to housewives by the United States department of agriculture. ag-riculture. The necessary materials are a graniteware cooking utensil deep enough to allow the silverware to bt covered by the solution; a clean piece of aluminum or zinc, preferably the former; and baking or washing soda. The solution, consisting of a teaspoon-ful teaspoon-ful of baking or washing soda and a like amount of table salt to each quart of -water, is brought to a boil In a graniteware or enameled utensil. A sheet of aluminum or clean zinc is dropped In. The tarnished silverware Is then immersed in the solution so that it is in contact with the sheet of aluminum or zinc. The tarnish should disappear in u few seconds. The silver sil-ver object should tJun be removed from the solution, rinsed, and dried with a soft cloth. |