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food and of nursing in illness, the lack of service 

 when the mother is weakened by labor and 

 child-bearing, is sometimes economy with most 

 disastrous results. Health and serenity are worth 

 more to the family than houses and a bank ac- 

 count. A good education given to an intelli- 

 gent child is worth ten times its cost saved up 

 for him to inherit in middle life. 



Every device, therefore, which saves the house- 

 wife's energy is a true economy. A clothes- 

 washing machine, a cabinet table, a slop -hopper 

 for kitchen and chamber waste -liquids, are all 

 obtainable and of special value in saving labor. 

 In planning the kitchen, economy of stej^s in 

 reaching water and fuel should be considered. 

 China should be kept either in wall cupboards 

 opening on one side into the dining-room, on 

 the other into the kitchen, or in a pantry be- 

 tween dining-room and kitchen. Kitchen uten- 

 sils need no longer be of black, heavy, ugly 

 iron, but of granite ware, nickel plate, and 

 aluminum; they may be placed in shelves close 

 to the range, or hung along the wall beside it. 

 A dumb waiter or hand elevator, from kitchen to 

 cellar, saves much going up and down stairs. 

 The height of sinks and work-tables should be 

 adapted to that of the woman who works over 

 them. A tall stool — a clerk's stool — in the 

 kitchen allows the housewife to sit while doing 



