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The poor cook their victuals in the rooms in which 

 they dwell ; but those who can afford the expense 

 and many indeed who cannot set apart a room for 

 the purpose of cooking, and call it a kitchen. I am 

 far from desiring to alter this order of things, for I 

 think it perfectly proper. What I wish is, that each 

 class of society may be made as comfortable as pos- 

 sible, and that all their domestic arrangements may be 

 neat and elegant, and at the same time economical. 



I always fancy that teaching industrious people 

 economy, and giving them a taste for the improve- 

 ment of all those useful contrivances and rational 

 enjoyments that are within their reach, is something 

 like showing them how, without either toil or trouble, 

 and with a good conscience, they may obtain all those 

 advantages which riches command, together with many 

 other very sweet enjoyments which money cannot buy. 

 And whose heart is so cold as not to glow with ardent 

 zeal at a prospect so well calculated to awaken all the 

 most generous feelings of humanity ? 



But to return from this digression. There are various 

 methods that may be used for economizing house-room 

 in making the necessary arrangements for cooking. If 

 the family be small, the use of portable furnaces and 

 boilers will be found to be very advantageous. 



For a large family I would recommend what I shall 

 call a concealed kitchen. There are two very complete 

 kitchens of this kind, which have been fitted up under 

 my direction at the Royal Institution : the one, which 

 is small, is in the housekeeper's room ; the other is in 

 the great kitchen. These were both made as models 

 for imitation, and may be examined by any person who 

 wishes to see them. 



