The Bulletin. 35 



Thursday, August 28. — 10 A. M. to 2 P. M. 



Lessons in Bread Making Mrs. McKimmon 



Talk D. H. Hill 



(President A. & M. College.) 



Talk on Salads, with Demonstration Miss Bossong 



Cooperation of Women from Town and Country Mrs. Heath 



The Care of the Child Raleigh Physician 



Fireless Cooker Demonstration. 

 Discussion. 



Some Tliintis I Have Found Helpful in My Own Home. 



MRS. HENRY 8LAGLE. 



As the demands of life are much the same with all of us, necessarily our 

 needs are much the same. I have been a home-keeper for more than twenty- 

 five years and have made it a close study, trying to find the best and easiest 

 way of doing things, and I have much to learn yet. I am always glad to 

 get any new ideas or suggestions from my coworkers, so I will tell first of 

 the arrangement of my kitchen. As I got some of my best ideas from 

 some of our institute workers, I would like to pass them on; someone else 

 might be as glad to get them as I was. 



My kitchen is small, 12 by 15 feet. I like to get things as near together as 

 possible. On the west side I have a door with water running right to it. 

 Just outside I have a sink to carry off the waste water. There are two large 

 windows right together which give plenty of light for my range that sits right 

 under them. It is a Queen Kalamazoo range and it cost only $36.67 deliv- 

 ered at Franklin. A cousin bought a range very much like mine from an 

 agent, and she gave $75 for hers. We farmer folks do give lots of our money 

 to traveling agents. In this case she gave a little more than twice as much 

 for her stove, and it was not any better than mine. Above the two windows 

 I have an air-shaft as near the overhead ceiling as possible, 25 inches long 

 and 6 inches wide, for an escape for hot air and smoke and fumes. I like it 

 very much, for so often something boils over or something drops on the stove 

 when it is hot and the whole house is filled with smoke; but this opening 

 carries it all off. In the heat of summer the air never gets stuffy. I made 

 a shutter to close in very cold weather, with hinges put on so the door will 

 drop down; then I can close it with a broom handle or a stick of stove wood. 

 I put a piece of wire screen on the outside to keep flies out. Behind my 

 range I have a space three feet between it and the dining room, and on this 

 wall I have a drop shelf fastened to the wall with strap hinges and a strong 

 brace in the middle fastened to the shelf with another strap hinge. The shelf 

 just drops down against the wall and is entirely out of the way until I want 

 to use it, when I lift it up and set the brace on a little block of wood which 

 has been nailed on the wall to support it. This I find very convenient for 

 raising lightbread and for many other purposes. The dining-room door has 

 swinging hinges, so in going to and from the dining-room with both hands 

 full all I have to do is to walk against the door and it will swing open either 

 way. 



I also have a large deep cupboard built in the corner right behind where 

 this door opens and just opposite my range. In making one of these get a 

 good workman and then it will always be satisfactory. It is not always the 

 things we get for the least money that prove to be most economical. I got 

 a good carpenter and he made the frame or face of this cupboard of oak that 

 would take a nice finish. He put in a set of slides 3 feet and 3 inches above 

 the floor for two nice deep drawers. One of these I use for all my kitchen 

 trinkets, such as spoons, egg-beaters, broilers, etc., and the other for a meat 

 drawer. I can put a whole ham in it and my meat for seasoning. Nice brass 

 rings for the drawers cost 20 cents. Below the drawers are two doors open- 

 ing into the lower part where I keep all my pots, pans, muffin rings, etc., and 



