| Show 5 DISHWASHING Womans Greatest Drudgery is Near its End Few women have the courage after dinner when the day is done to wash dishes That IB drudgery It means I putting the cups and saucers plates platters and vegetable dishes into a I big pan of hot suds rubbing them with a dishcloth setting them to drain and wiping each piece with a towel Noahs wifes dishes were cleaned In the same way and very probably Noahs wife lamented her reddened and roughened hands as the wivesof less distinguished men have I done ever since Probably too she found that her best pieces of tableware table-ware got scratched in the process or slipped out of her soarn hands and smashed to bits It is i not likely though that she bothered her head much about the condition of the dishcloth dish-cloth or the drying towels Living as she did In that menagerie she could hardly be blamed for not keeping everything sweet If any of her I daughtershave bothered their heads much either it has been to mighty little purpose seeing that they have not greatly Improved the process Men that keep hotels though being able to get only the lowest class of help to wash dishes what a comment that is upon us men that expect the wives of our bosom to do such work found that the bill for broken china was ruinous Guests insisted upon being served i upon fine porcelain and refused eat from slabs of ironstone so some way out had to be found A machine was Invented capable of being operated by anybody and that could bo trusted to wash thoroughly rinse and dry the most delicate ware without chlppage or breakage all at the rate of 6000 pieces an hour Think what an army of dishwashers such a machine must displace and what an economy It must be For not only is the hotelkeeper rid of the necessity of giving standing room and subsistence to that army but of providing captains and generals for it and of enduring the damage that It must inflict upon friend and foe alike after the fashion of all armies The dishes are collected and scraped and then dropped into wire baskets with wooden Interiors so arranged that the dishes stand on edge without touching each other Pitchers cups bowls and the like go Into the center The basket is lowered Into the washing tank where hot suds mixed with air so as to present thousands of sharp cutting edges are driven against the dishes with tremendous rapidity and force They are washed In twenty seconds A trolley carries the basket to the rinsing tank where two souses take off the soapsuds They drain and dry from the heat they have absorbed from the rinsing water China and silverware thus treated always look brighter and newer than if washed by hand Frederic J Nash in AInslees |
