Housekeeping Made Easy 



How to Avoid Burnt Fingers 



WHERE is 

 the cook 

 who has never 

 burnt her hands 

 draining scalding 

 hot water from 

 vegetables? Blis- 

 tered hands nia>^ 

 now become mere 

 reminiscences, for 

 there are upon 

 the market excel- 

 lent vegetable kettles of aluminum with 

 lids held in place safely by clamps. On 

 one side is a hand-hold for tipping the 

 vessel and for holding the lid. 



Cherry- Stoner Saves the Hands 



AN automatic 

 I. method of 

 removing the 

 stones from cher- 

 ries without 

 touching the fruit 

 with the hands or 

 soiling it in any 

 way, is afforded 

 through the ope- 

 ration of the sim- 

 ple little device illustrated. Press the 

 finger on the spring-rod, so that it goes 

 through the fruit and reaches the stone, 

 and continue pressing until the stone is 

 forced out. 



An Electric Gas-Lighter 



G A S - 

 LIGHTER 



which can be at- 

 tached to an ordi- 

 nary electric sock- 

 et has recently 

 been patented. A 

 tubular insulating 

 handle /I contains 

 a bank of elec- 

 trical resistance C 

 to which is connected a metallic leaf 

 spring. By pressing a push-button D 

 on the side of the handle the spring is 

 brought into contact with a carbon 

 electrode E. Connecting with the re- 

 sistance coil is a wire D which, in turn, 

 connects with the house circuit. 



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Efficiency in the Kitchen 

 HE cook, like 



most other 

 responsible peo- 

 ple, is depending 

 less on her guess- 

 ing apparatus and 

 more on simple 

 little instruments 

 which insure ac- 

 curacy. For in- 

 stance, there is 

 the kitchen clock, 



the graduated pint measure, scales of one 

 kind or another, thermometers, etc. The 

 graduated measure has superseded the 

 various sized teacup. 



A 



Two Cooking Vessels in One 

 COOKLNG 



t e n s i 1 

 which comprises 

 inner and outer 

 vessels separated 

 from each other 

 and permanently 

 connected togeth- 

 er at their upper 

 ends to provide a closed heating chamber 

 which extends from the bottom of the 

 outer vessel to the upper ends of both 

 vessels, is able to distribute heat more 

 effectively throughout the food in the 

 upper portion of the inner vessel. 



A Glue-Brush Like a Fountain-Pen 



NOW comes 

 a glue foun- 

 tain that applies 

 glue through a 

 brush by pressure, 

 doing away with 

 the time consum- 

 ing task of dip- 

 ping and apply- 

 ing. Liquid glue 

 is contained in a 

 long metal barrel 

 in which an inner barrel fits piston-like. 

 At the lower end of the outer barrel is a 

 small curved tube which points towards 

 a brush. Forcing down the inner barrel 

 urges the glue into the bristles of the 

 brush. 



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