dish-towels

Oh sure, they're tolerated and marginally encouraged but with an enthusiasm one normally associates with favorite dish-towels and serviceable oil filters.

Will Durst: Prom Queen Anguish Will Durst 2011

Oh sure, they're tolerated and marginally encouraged but with an enthusiasm one normally associates with favorite dish-towels and serviceable oil filters.

Will Durst: Prom Queen Anguish Will Durst 2011

It may be desirable to give this lesson earlier in the course, if cooking lessons are being given and dish-towels are in use, or if the aprons are badly soiled.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education

Why should dish-towels be placed in boiling water during laundering?

School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer

It may be well to have each pupil hem a towel for home use, as well as for school use, in order to impress upon her the desirability of having hemmed dish-towels for daily use.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education

We also took with us a dish-pan and several dish-towels.

The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island A. Russell Bond

-- Use dish-towels and cloths for no other purpose than washing and drying dishes.

School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer

At one time table-linen is washed and ironed properly; at another, the best methods of treating dish-towels are taught; at another, the washing of flannels and the doing up of prints and ginghams; at another, clear-starching, the cleansing of laces and fine materials; and so on, until the whole round of a family laundry has been scientifically taught and enforced by practice.

In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

It is a matter of much importance to keep dish-towels and cloths clean.

School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer

He looked with bitter attentiveness at the dingy frame cottage he was approaching, noticing each homely detail -- the dish-towels spread on the bushes in the back yard, the mop hanging by the door, the kerosene can under the step, the lean hen scuttling away under the currant bushes, the vegetable garden lying parched and dry along the fence.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various