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Perforated top plate 



Smoke Your Own Hams with This 

 Portable Smoke-House 



THE German hausfrau has her own 

 smoke-house which she uses in con- 

 nection with the domestic stove. It is 

 practically a large sheet-iron can, with a 

 neck at the bottom of suitable width to 

 fit the stove. Inside it is 

 divided into two com- 

 partments. A partition 

 is placed on one side 

 which connects at the top 

 with a perforated plate 

 (wire gauze would prob- 

 ably do), and at the bot- 

 tom with a solid plate 

 forming the bottom of 

 the chamber. 



The smoke passes up 

 through the connecting 

 pipe, up the back passage, 

 down through the per- 

 forated plate into the 

 smoke-chamber, and 

 thence through the out- 

 let into the chimney. 

 Any dirt or soot or cin- 

 ders are intercepted by 

 the perforated plate. 

 The apparatus is used on 

 the kitchen stove, with a 



enham, England. It is essentially an 

 improved "fireless cooker" of simple 

 construction, in which the heat necessary 

 for cooking, baking, boiling or broiling 

 is supplied by an ordinary incandescent 

 electric lamp. 



The cooker is eighteen inches high and 

 twenty inches square and weighs thirty 

 pounds. It consists of 

 two iron cases, one inside 

 of the other, but sepa- 

 rated by a thick filling of 

 expanded cork. Through 

 a hole in the lower part 

 of the box the socket of 

 an electric lamp is passed, 

 which may be connected 

 with any convenient plug 

 or lighting fixture. To 

 the socket an ordinary 

 electric light bulb is at- 

 tached inside the box.. 

 Above the heating bulb 

 several shelves are ar- 

 ranged, so that several 

 dishes may be cooked at 

 the same time. The 

 cooking box may be 

 opened by the housewife 

 at any time for the in- 

 spection of the contents, 

 which cannot be done 

 small, slow-burning fire and any suitable with the ordinary "fireless cooker," for 

 smoke-producing material that is at hand, the lamp will soon replace any lost heat^ 



This smoke-house is used on the 

 kitchen above with a small fire 



Just the Thing for a Kitchenette 

 — An Electric Cooker 



HOUSEKEEPING in a modern apart- 

 ment, although its space economy is 

 carried to extremes, can be simpli- 

 fied by the use of the portable 

 cooking box invented by Mr 

 Leoline Edwards, of Twick- 



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Pity the Salt Industry: It Makes 

 Little Profit 



A 



Diagram and method of use of a homemade electric cooker 

 It is a kind of improved "fireless cooker," simply constructed 



RECENT investigation by the 

 Bureau of Mines proved that a salt 

 famine in the United State;5 

 is unlikely. At the same 

 time it was established 

 that owing to the low 

 price of salt and the 

 abundance of its 

 supply there is but 

 little profit in the 

 salt industry, al- 

 though the American 

 salt works have sup- 

 plied in recent years 

 practically all the salt 

 consumed in the United 

 States. What a pity — 

 for the profiteers — salt 

 is not used in munitions T 



