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Another apartment would be for the purpose of shoe-cleaning , where long spindles would be armed with a succession of revolving ,, circular brushes , ' hard , blacking , and shining , ' in any number which might be required , distributing the c Day and Martin' in exact quantities , as accurately as a Napier ' s printing-press , and working as rapidly and efficiently , by a man holding the shoe or
boot against the brushes , as silver-work is polished by the same process . Another apartment might have a similar arrangement for brushing clothes , a stream of air caused by a fanner driving off the dust through a window . Another for knife and plate cleaning . In most houses earthenware and china is washed by
hand with hot water , and very commonly the unctuous matter of the food they have contained is not entirely removed . A very simple and far more effective process would be , to deposit edgewise the used plates and dishes in an open frame of wood , or wicker , or wire , made to fit a hot-water cistern , and suspended on a balanced beam , counterweighted at the opposite end , just as a
tallow-chandler makes dipped candles ; a handful of caustic alkali being thrown into the water , the whole of the greasy matter would be instantly converted into soap and washed off . The frame might then be dipped in a similar manner in a cold-water cistern , and the ware left to drain dry ; thus no manual labour of rubbing would be required , and there would be little breakage . Most of the other drudgery of a house might be performed in the same manner by steam-power .
Our engine has not yet done its work . In addition to all this , and much more , it must be constantly pumping up boiling water into a close cistern , for the purpose of supplying the public and private baths , and also the hot-water pipes whereby the whole of the establishment must be heated . It must also pump up cold water , so that it may flow freely into all the upper stories of the buildings ; for by these two operations an almost endless quantity of human labour will be saved . But there are also other things for it to do . It must be in constant readiness to work a
fireengine , supposing the building not to be fire-proof ; but were the building to be fire-proof , though it might cost more in the outset , there would be an annual saving of insurance . The cellar beneath the kitchen , or perhaps an outbuilding attached to it , should contain the gasometers and gas-apparatus for lighting up the whole of the establishment . The best contrivances for consuming smoke would of course be resorted to .
The building on the opposite side of the gallery would be used for other purposes ; and , if well arranged , would be , as well as the dwellings , entirely free from the noise and smell of the culinary ai other operations . The cellars would be applied to the storage of wine , and such provisions as might be kept in stock ; ** k 1 the gallery might also be vaulted below for coals and other ** tters . It might also , if needed , contain the public baths ,
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Housebuilding and Housekeeping . 575
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/45/
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