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House & Garden 
Beef presses, ranging in price from $1.50 to $5, are a boon 
for the baby or the invalid 
7 he aluminum waffle iron, which fluctuates from $4.50 up, 
has potentialities as a gift 
and table legs at 10 cents a set? Or the perma¬ 
nent gas lighters for 25 cents. They are con¬ 
venient and amusing. 
Owning a rotary fruit parer ($1.50 up) saves 
energy and caters to one’s sense of form, as 
the fruit can be served un-angular and with 
little waste, and besides, the cook’s imperial 
temper is not stirred. 
Table Bells and Griddles 
Table bells of sweet tintinabulation save 
the nerves. At any rate there is poetry in such 
a gift, and one can spend from $1.50 to any 
price at all on these romantic things, as they 
also come in the precious metals. 
There may be many domiologists with 
doubts about cake, bread and mayonnaise 
mixers, but if you ever gave any of these 
articles to a household you would go down 
into history as a benefactor. I wonder often 
why so many of us forget that such gifts are 
really gold mines. 
No one likes to do unnecessary cleaning and 
If you would give a regal gift to the Monarch 
of Culinaria, the kitchen cabinet is the thing! 
It is a compact little kitchen “with everything 
in it but the kitchen stove,” and fills the need 
of the worker in the badly planned and 
equipped city kitchen and the unplanned 
kitchen out of town. 
Although not exclusively a kitchen gift, the 
vacuum cleaner cannot be excelled as a present. 
Once bestowed you are looked upon as a fairy 
god-parent. Why not give one for a wedding 
present sometime? The fireless cookers and 
refrigerators would come under this classifica¬ 
tion too, but they vary in price too much to 
record here. 
Electric Dishwashers and Stoves 
If there be a regent and not a cook in the 
kitchen, she will welcome with tired arms the 
electric dishwasher, the boon to the woman 
doing her own work. It costs about $125 or 
thereabouts and makes house work a game 
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Cherry stoners, another labor-sav¬ 
ing device, come from 75 cents 
upwards 
scraping of utensils, so the aluminum waffle 
and griddle are presents of unusual pleasure¬ 
giving potentialities. The prices here are 
prone to fluctuation but there are always sizes 
to be had around $4.50. 
The subject of a good filter would take a 
year to outline, but there are safe, convenient 
and simple ones on the market (around $5 
to $7). As a donor of such a thing you could 
save doctor's bills and possibly lives! 
To give an electric stove is to give money, a rest cure and time to the housewife. Their prices range from $180 upwards and their uses 
and advantages are legion 
