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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



eled in granite and other colors ; spiders that will suit both 

 right-handed and left-handed cooks, having a lip on each side ; 

 two forms of "self -basting" roasting pans, designed to prevent 

 meats from drying in the oven ; knife-edge, torsion, and spring 

 balances; and cast-iron ware polished and even nickel-plated. 

 Portable ovens for gas and kerosene stoves also steam cookers 

 jacketed with asbestos are shown. The jacket prevents the con- 

 duction of heat from the cooking food, thus utilizing a scientific 

 principle which is too commonly disregarded in cooking. Cylin- 

 drical tin receptacles for flour and meal are shown which may be 

 fastened against the wall at a convenient height. The flour is 

 made to pass through a sieve by turning a crank and comes out 

 by an outlet at the bottom. A measuring cup, which fits on to 

 the outlet when not in use, forms part of the apparatus. There 

 are quite a number of machines worked by a crank which save a 

 great deal of tiresome and time-consuming hand work. One 

 company exhibits a meat chopper, a fruit press, a sausage stuffer, 

 and a cherry stoner. The same company makes a simple utensil, 

 like a saucepan in form, for shaving ice. Another exhibitor has 

 a little nutmeg-grater that is worked by a crank. A small room 

 in the Woman's Building is devoted to inventions by women. 

 Most of these are household articles, while some are of a wholly 

 different character. These inventions are generally modifications 

 of articles already in use, novel departures being rare. Among 

 the cooking utensils in this room are a metal kneading-board, a 

 kitchen knife especially adapted for slicing, a frying pan with a 

 hood and a flue to carry the smoke from the food down into the 

 fire, and an egg and cake beater with a new form of stirrer. An- 

 other cake beater invented by a woman, and resembling the tin 

 flour bin described above, is shown in the Agricultural Build- 

 ing. Inventions by women appear also in the Illinois Building, 

 among them being a funnel, a baking pan, and a kettle holder for 

 a stove. A fruit evaporator small enough for household use is 

 shown in the Horticultural Building. The capacity of the smallest 

 size is about half a bushel of apples. In the same building a Ger- 

 man exhibitor shows knives of peculiar shapes, for paring and 

 slicing vegetables and cutting them into ornamental shapes ; also 

 a cherry stoner. Household woodenware is to be found in the 

 Forestry Building ; one make has electrically welded flat hoops 

 set in grooves in the staves, instead of the common riveted hoops ; 

 another has welded wire hoops which are imbedded in the wood 

 at several points in the circumference. Near by are shown tubs, 

 pails, keelers, bowls, milkpans, measures, etc., of indurated fiber 

 (paper pulp), which are molded in one piece. 



But few appliances are required for laundry work, hence the 

 exhibits in this line are not conspicuous. Of course, wringing 



