HOW TO CLEAN SILVER AN EASIER WAY.
By Kentuckiene
A YOUNG house-wife is confronted with the serious problem of cleaning all her bridal presents of silver for the first time. She says she failed utterly in getting them to look bright, besides the long time expended, and it tired her very much. She asks me to send to the Signs of the Times a method for cleaning silver which is good, and will save her much labor. The whole service may be cleaned as effectively as if hours had been devoted to such work, if only you know how. Here is the best method I know. Place a number of pieces of your silver in a boiler, first having filled it nearly full of rain-water and enough pearline to make a good suds, then place it on the range for half an hour and let it boil; take off and let cool enough to handle it, and rub each piece quickly with a clean chamois cloth, and they will look like new pieces of silver. Silver should never be rubbed with flannel or cotton cloth. The unused silver will become tarnished, if exposed to the light and air; therefore to keep it in good condition each article should be wrapped in tissue paper. After each meal it is a good idea to gather the spoons, forks, and all such silver which is used daily, and put them into a small-sized dishpan15kept for the purpose and cover with hot water to which a tablespoonful of pearline is added. Leave them a few minutes, then take out and rub quickly with a chamois cloth. They will look like new.