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motions; pause for rest at such intervals as shall insure your being able 

 to resume work at your best rate of speed." 



Like opporturities for improvement are open to us in our kitchens. 

 While waiting for the day when labor-saving machinery will be the rule 

 instead of the exception, we can do much, by selection, arrangement, and 

 care of our equipment, to make work easier and working hours shorter. 



METHODS OF BUYING 



None of us can afford to throw away our present outfit and buy a new 

 one, but we can all afford to consider how we shall replace one article at a 

 time as the opportunity comes. Two girls who were found busy with 

 time-tables and maps said, when asked what they were doing, " Planning 

 a trip to Europe." " Can you afford a trip to Europe? " asked their 

 astonished friends. " Oh, no, we can't afford to go," was the cheerful 

 answer, " but we can afford to plan." In the same way we can afford to 

 plan before we can afford to replace. Indeed, we cannot afford not to 

 plan. If we drift along until confronted with some immediate need, one 

 of two things is sure to happen: either we take a hurried trip to some 

 near-by town, go to a shop where kitchen utensils are temptingly dis- 

 played, and buy things that attract us as they stand in shining rows on 

 the shelf; or some one comes to our door who is taking orders for the latest 

 kitchen novelty or convenience. This person may have exactly what we 

 want, just as the shopkeeper can satisfactorily supply our wants — if only 

 they both know what our wants are; and that is something that neither a 

 salesman who has never seen our kitchen, nor an acquaintance whose 

 household problem is entirely different from ours, can decide for us. 



Successful buying depends on knowing whether the work that a given 

 utensil is best fitted to do is the work that we want done, and on choosing 

 the utensil that will do that work satisfactorily for the longest time. 

 Good buying is a duty which we owe to the community as well as to our- 

 selves, since it is only by killing the demand for inferior things that we can 

 protect inexperienced buyers, support conscientious manufacturers, and 

 force unscrupulous manufacturers to raise their standard. 



POINTS TO BE CONSIDERED IN CHOICE OF UTENSILS 



In order to choose a utensil deserving its name, something fit for use, we 

 must consider the following points: 



Is the utensil genuine, or, to quote the salesman, "as advertised " ? No 

 other investment of money is so bitterly regretted as one that calls for the 

 admission, " This was not worth buying at any price." 



