The grate will need no other cleaning, but will merely require dusting every day, and occasionally brushing with a dry black-lead brush.

"Sweeping and washing the floor of the three rooms every morning, two stoves which must be black-leaded weekly, each taking an hour, weekly cleaning of windows, tins, dinner-chests, washing-up of bandages, &c., besides the washing-up after each of our five meals, keeps one busy."

Jewels are generally wrapped up in cotton, and kept in their cases; but they are subject to tarnish from exposure to the air, and require cleaning.

The plate so washed may be polished with the plate-rags, as in the following directions:Once a week all the plate should receive a thorough cleaning with the hartshorn powder, as directed in the first recipe for cleaning plate; and where the housemaid can find time, rubbed every day with the plate-rags. 2316.

A good engineer keeps his engine clean, washes the boiler whenever he thinks it needs it.

By this means she is able to keep the house clean with less fatigue to herself than if she left all the cleaning to do at the end of the week.

Nature, that stillest, yet most diligent of housewives, began at last that "spring-cleaning" which she makes so pleasant that none find the heart to grumble as they do when other matrons set their premises a-dust.

Only when a fire starts in a row of 'em hit cleans up the Company's property same as it does the plunder of the folks that lives in 'em.

Cranford, New Jersey, is one of a dozen small cities where the women's clubs hold regular town house-cleanings.

I'm like those plague-stricken wretches who, of wanton wickedness, ran from their beds to infect the clean with their foul ill?

The rainstorm which had swept up during the night had passed, leaving the morning clean.

Such a brush is also most serviceable for washing celery, as the corrugated surface of the stalk makes a thorough cleaning with the hands a difficult operation.

It was a strange fancy that prompted the cleaning of this door-handle.

It will be obvious, therefore, that a washer which fulfills the best conditions as far as regards the cleaning of the gas will be absolutely perfect if it does not present any impediment to its flow.

Hammond scheduled an elaborate cleaning of the houses every spring and fall.

I sell the cleanings of my pipethe yenshee, we call itso I keep going.

So for that night they parted, Penelope to her bed, and Ulysses to his son, and to the armour and the lances in the hall, where they sat up all night cleaning and watching by the armour.

I did the same thing myself once with a couple o' quid I ran acrost unexpected, on'y, unfortunately for me, I hid it the day afore my missus started 'er spring-cleaning.

She had been superintending the house-cleaning and taking rather an aggressive part in it herself.

Bell, from a side window joined in, and a single glance told the reason: up from the south rode cavalry, sweeping the pike clean of its riff-raff, and behind, barely visible through the dust, tramped a compact mass of infantry, breaking into double time.

While it is doing this in one direction, it is turning machinery in another that cleans and weighs the grain off into sacks ready for the market.

Besides the daily routine which we have described, there are portions of every house which can only be thoroughly cleaned occasionally; at which time the whole house usually undergoes a more thorough cleaning than is permitted in the general way.

Mr. Claridge had himself undertaken the cleaning, and had been engaged on it, the assistant said, when he left.

He took his breakfast at a little table in the vestibule, read the newspaper, had to go to the door in order to avoid the morning cleaning, pursued by the dust of brooms and shaken rugs.

"The house don't look as if it would want much cleaning," said Caddy, with a tone of regret.