Modern Appliances in the Home 1865 



solves her problem just as well as if it had been designed purposely 

 for the kitchen Hoor. This woman, after many vain efforts to 

 get, for the greasing of her pans, a brush which should be posi- 

 tively warranted not to shed its bristles and to withstand the hot 

 water necessary to cleanse it, spies on her son's bureau one day, 

 just what she has been looking for — a brush of badger hair, 

 bound Avith twine, w^arranted to withstand hot water. The fact 

 that it is his first and cherished shaving brush keeps her from 

 annexing it, but she goes straightway and buys one just like it in 

 preference to any so-called, " pastry brush." One day, after 

 vainly struggling to free the lemon grater from the grated rind, 

 she picks up a little fibre brush and discovers that one light stroke 

 does what fifteen minutes' labor with a knife did not accomplish. 

 She learns of the artist how useful is the palette knife- — -more 

 effective for the cleansing of bowls than anything except the 

 human finger, which lias been discarded for the purpose since 

 we began to study sanitation. She finds the roll of brown paper 

 just as useful in the kitchen as it is in the shop, and has allowed 

 it largely to replace the rolling board, which required such care- 

 ful cleansing. At the druggist's one day she discovered what is 

 known as an emulsifier — a deep porcelain bowl with a beater 

 like a Dover egg beater fastened to it somewhat aslant, which 

 may be turned by hand or by a motor. While never intended for 

 the kitchen, this utensil serves her better for the beating of cakes 

 and frostings and the mixings of salad dressings than anything 

 manufactured for the purpose. 



Those whose business it is to sell kitchen appliances, naturally 

 find it to their advantage if we buy a great variety of utensils, 

 each designed for some special use. That same mechanical turn 

 of mind wdiich I have mentioned so often will save us much 

 money right here by making us realize to how many uses an ap- 

 pliance may be put besides the one for which it was specially de- 

 signed. When you have decided that the bread mixer saves your 

 time and is practical, and have therefore added a cake mixer to 

 your equipment, do not imagine that the mixing of cake is all that 

 it can do. It makes salad dressing, beats eggs, makes butter and 

 kneads bread with equal readiness and quite as eftectively as if 

 each one was its specialty. A scrap basket has long been advo- 



