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Show Kitchen Shelves Cry Out for Paint Coat In line with the suggestion about painting closets is a little shelf-cleaning campaign the housewife might well institute at this season. Kitchen condiment con-diment shelves, dry grocery shelves and shelves on which china and glassware glass-ware are kept are apt to become soiled by having liquids spilled on them, smudged with lingers or discolored bv vapors or condensed steam. All wood in the kitchen should be pa'inted. enameled or varnished fre-quentlv, fre-quentlv, if it is to be sanitary and easily easi-ly cleaned. The reason for this is that the air in the kitchen, duo to cooking or washing. Is frequently laden with moisture and the temperature of the room fluctuates widely. Fumes from a gas stove, soot and smoke from a coal range and smoke and gases from cooking foods further tend to dull the finishes on shelvmg If all shelves are scrubbed clean and all surfaces treated to three coats of white enamel you will be delighted .vith tht result. |