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FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS OF QUALITY 
HE LARGE crowds around the Wolff booth 
at the First Hosehold Show held in Chicago, 
which just came to a successful close, re- 
vealed to us the increasing demand for modern 
sanitary plumbing goods. 
Our aim was to show a line of fixtures that 
would be a credit to any home and within the 
reach of any purse. 
You—who have not had the opportunity of 
seeing this exhibit, can secure an illustrated book- 
let, showing bath rooms from the modest three- 
piece fixtures to the most elaborate. 
A postal will bring it. 
L. Wolff Manufacturing Co. 
MANUFACTURERS OF 
Plumbing Goods Exclusively 
The only complete line made by any one firm 
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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
1 
August, 1912 
THE MEXICAN KITCHEN 
O a person accustomed to the luxuri- 
ousness of an American kitchen, the 
crudity of a “Cocina Mexicana” is at first 
sight most disheartening, writes a contribu- 
tor to Gas Logic. There are no conven- 
iences or labor-saving devices, and the lack 
of these has almost proved the undoing of 
many a house-keeping novice in Mexico. 
The “brasero” which does duty for our 
kitchen range is a puzzle which some 
women never solve. 
As a rule, the Mexican kitchens are clean, 
though you could hardly call them tidy. 
There are never any closets. The red brick 
floor gives a cheery look and the grass mats, 
called ‘‘petates,” spread over the bricks lend 
an impression of cleanliness, the buff or 
blue walls forming a good background for 
the array of “ollas” or earthenware crocks, 
wooden spoons, and few iron utensils which 
are hung around. 
The brasero, generally of blue and white 
tiles, is a long affair standing on medium 
high legs. Across the front are as many 
square openings as there are grates on top. 
Into the grates the charcoal is put, together 
with some pine splinters, the maid patiently 
working a straw fan back and forth in front 
of the lower openings, which correspond 
to the draughts in our ranges; after some 
time the charcoal ignites and a hot fire is 
started—a feat impossible to an amateur. 
Upon the charcoal of each grate the ollas 
of various sizes are balanced. These are 
the cooking utensils of the country, and are 
made of a dark-brown, highly glazed clay, 
which heats quickly and retains the heat 
a long time. As the charcoal burns it nat- 
urally changes position, thus endangering 
the proper balance of the ollas, a condition 
not unknown to result in toppling the din- 
ner into the fire. 
For roasting meats and baking, a square 
tin oven is placed on top of the brasero, 
covering two or more of the grates in which 
a hot fire has been started. It takes a long 
time, with much fanning, for the oven to 
heat sufficiently, so that roast for dinner or 
a batch of fresh bread is no light matter. 
INTERNATIONAL DECORATIVE 
EXPOSITION 
MBASSADOR Myron T. Herrick, of 
Paris, has been officially informed that 
the commission in charge of the Interna- 
tional Exposition of Modern Decorative 
Art, which was to have been held in Paris 
during 1915, has decided to postpone this 
exhibition for a year in order to avoid its 
coinciding with the Panama-Pacific Expo- 
sition at San Francisco. 
CURIOUS USES OF LIQUID AIR 
S a motive power for operating auto- 
mobiles and motorboats, says Leslie’s 
Weekly, liquid air is superior to the elec- 
tric storage battery, since it requires no 
tedious waiting for the process of recharg- 
ing and it delivers more than double the 
power of the former, with half the weight. 
Gasolene is not in the same class with 
liquid air, for the latter emits no noxious 
odors nor is there any danger of explo- 
sions. As a refrigerant there is no source 
of cold like liquid air. Other than operat- 
ing automobiles and serving as a refriger- 
ant, there is hardly a thing in the human 
mind can think of that liquid air cannot 
do, from providing a magical entertainment 
to the production of continuous power. Yet 
there is lacking a process by which it can 
be produced cheaply enough to compete 
with other sources of motive forces now in 
_ use. 
