460 On the Construction of Kitchen 



form that service with great ease by devoting to it each 

 day the labour of half an hour, and giving to it occa- 

 sionally a few moments of attention, which would hardly 

 interrupt her in her common domestic employments, 

 this method of preparing food would be very econom- 

 ical, perhaps more so than any other, and, with 

 proper inspection, it would be little liable to abuse. 



How very useful would these portable boilers and 

 furnaces be for providing a warm and cheap dinner 

 for children who frequent schools of industry ! 



No furnace could, in my opinion, be better contrived 

 for this use than that represented in the Fig. 86 ; and 

 the boiler might be made either of sheet iron tinned, 

 or of copper tinned, or of cast iron. It cannot be 

 necessary that I should give any particular directions 

 respecting its form, and its dimensions may easily be 

 computed from its capacity, when that is determined on. 



A portable cooking apparatus of this kind, which is 

 designed as a model for imitation, may be seen in the 

 repository of the Royal Institution. 



Of the Economy of House-room in the Arrangement of 

 a Kitchen for a large Family. 



There is nothing which marks the progress of civil 

 society more strongly than the use that is made of 

 house-room ; and nothing would tend more to prevent 

 the too rapid progress of destructive luxury among the 

 industrious classes than a taste for neatness and true 

 elegance in all the inferior details of domestic arrange- 

 ment. The pleasing occupation which those objects 

 of rational pursuit afford to the mind fills up leisure 

 time in a manner that is both useful and satisfactory 

 and prevents ennui and all its fatal consequences. 



