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Show CARE OF COSTLY CHINA. It is not every kitchen maid who can be .trusted to wash the costly chinaware used at the dinners given by wealthy people. Such china is often hand-painted by celebrated artists, and a single piece not infrequently costs from $25 to $100 or more. The contents of the china closets of some of our multi-millionaires are worth a moderate fortune, and their care is intrusted only to experts, ex-perts, who charge high prices for their service. Some of the dishwashers employed em-ployed by fashionable caterers receive salaries which far exceed those of the average bookkeeper or clerk. In the first place, the pieces are never allowed to touch ach other, but are brought to the table and removed one at a time. When not in use they are kept in padded cases, with thick layers lay-ers of tissue paper over each piece. Nor are they ever put into dishpan, even for a dip into water. Instead, each piece is tenderly sponged with the soft silk Not even with this is it rubbed, only brushed as lightly as a raw wound might be, until it is perfectly clean. After which it is as tenderly dried with old, soft linen or with an India silk handkerchief. Less expensive china, which is still "too costly for working days," is kept in piles with either tissue paper or double-faced canton flannel -.between the plates, to prevent any possible rubbing rub-bing of the hand paintings, which, though unsigned, are artistic and beautiful. beau-tiful. A useful adjunct to any china closet with a set of hand-painted plates, and most closets have at least a few, is a set of canton flannel doilies for each set. Cut them of fairly heavy double-faced double-faced canton flannel, each a very little larger than' the plate it is to protect. If you make such a set for a friend, button-hole stitch the edges with wash silk in color to match the china, an embellishment em-bellishment which, though not necessary necessa-ry to use, makes them more ornamental. ornament-al. - Cases of canton flannel for silver are also desirable properties. Make each one to hold a dozen forks or spoons, with two lengths of flannel, one on each other, " and divided ' into compartments by machine stitching.- Have the pieco which forms the back of the case wider than the front, to furnish a flap to hold over at the top, say from three to four inches deep. Measure the size of each case by that of the article it is to hold-table, hold-table, dessert, tea or coffee spoons, dinner din-ner or dessert forks, etc. |