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done, they should be tinned on the inside and japanned 

 on the outside, to give them a neat and cleanly appear- 

 ance, and prevent their rusting. They may likewise 

 be made of pewter ; or, by changing their forms a little, 

 they may be made of tin. The choice of the material 

 to be employed in constructing them must, in each case, 

 be determined by circumstances. 



The inverted bowl which covers the steam-dish may 

 be used likewise for covering the boiler when the steam- 

 dish is not in use. Or the cover of the boiler, which is 

 represented by the Fig. 79, may be made use of instead 

 of the inverted bowl for covering the steam-dish, and 

 the bowl may be omitted altogether. One principal 

 reason why I proposed this bowl was to show how by 

 a little contrivance, an article useful in housekeeping 

 might, without any inconvenience or impropriety, be 

 made to serve different purposes. 



It is the interest of so many persons to increase as 

 much as possible the number of articles used in house- 

 keeping, and to render them as expensive as possible, 

 that I could not help feeling a strong desire to counter- 

 act this tendency in some measure, at least in as far as 

 it affects the comforts and enjoyments of the poor. 



The natural and the fair object of the exertions of 

 the industrious part of mankind being the acquirement 

 of wealth, their ingenuity is employed and exhausted in 

 supplying the wants and gratifying the taste of the rich 

 and luxurious. 



It is not their interest to encourage the practice of 

 economy, except it be privately, in their own families. 



Though I sometimes speak with indignation of some 

 of those ridiculous forms under which unmeaning and 

 ostentatious dissipation too often insults common de- 



