covers or clean butter muslin.  If the shelves are lined with paper, care should be taken at the weekly change to examine the wood for stains caused by spilt food that has penetrated through the paper.  These should not be just left and covered over, but well washed off.  With ordinary carefulness, however, they need not occur.

 F.D.

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