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House & Garden 
NEWS OF DOMESTIC AIDS 
Twenty of the Best Modern Devices Which Lighten and Make 
More Effective the Housekeeper s Labors 
PETER DUNHAM 
men 
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Cream, mayonnaise or eggs may be beaten, cake 
batter mixed, and meat, nuts or fruit cut by a 
manifold mixer which is operated by electricity. 
It may be attached directly to a light socket. 
Courtesy of Hobart Mfg. Co. 
T HERE may be nothing new under the 
sun but there is always something in¬ 
viting under the roofs of our manu¬ 
factories, in these labor, time, and energy 
sparing days. Not to keep abreast of the 
news is perhaps to lose at least a week out 
of your year in time, and a few tons of actual 
effort. 
There is an ideal mixer on the market 
which attacks and synthesizes a mayonnaise, 
cream or eggs, mixes cakes, makes bread of 
its ingredients, and all in all can almost be 
hitched to the stars and change the rotations 
of the solar system, extravagantly speaking. 
It is modeled on a giant mixer formerly used 
in hotels and soda fountains but now adapted 
to home use. Furthermore, it is prepared to 
annihilate meats, puts and fruits. It is a 
complete power unit and worked by elec¬ 
tricity. 
Multum in parvo —here we have it. A lit¬ 
tle washing machine that can be a sweet 
pal of the portable typewriter—less its 
weight, not requiring, though, either ink or 
hand labor. This tiny wooden washer is 
placed under a water faucet and the weakest 
stream of water revolves its little cylinder 
so that you can wash two or three shirtwaists 
and six hankies and seven towels in one opera¬ 
tion while you sit and think how lucky you 
are. Fancy this little fairy in a hotel room, 
in the country, where the wash ladies are 
obsolete and your nurse won’t wash—or where 
you don’t want to trust your trousseau to any 
laundry resident in your rural haunt. And 
it is invaluable for the baby’s wash—because 
the baby is no respecter of labor and needs 
much rehabilitation. 
It fits on any wash-stand, is simply made, 
easily cleaned and tres bon marche. So your 
parlor, bedroom and bath need not be a limi¬ 
tation to your wardrobe’s perfection. 
How many times have you toasted bread at 
your morning meal—the meal at which most of 
Electric chafing dishes and coffee percolators are 
among the table conveniences now obtainable. 
If attached to the wall outlet with long cables, 
they permit considerable freedom in moving 
them about. Courtesy of Wagner Mfg. Co. 
us are poorly adjusted? How many times have 
we nearly (?) sworn because our magic elec¬ 
tric toaster only did the trick on one side of 
the bread? Now—there has been born a 
toaster which, when one side of the toast is 
done, “turns the other cheek” (by a pat of 
one’s finger on a lever) and in most tradi¬ 
tionally ethical fashion, so that you have self- 
turned toast, well cooked, waiting for you— 
disgruntled or radiant. It’s a nice thought— 
to have toast without blackened fingers or dis¬ 
integrated character. 
Every sick room at 'some time or another 
needs besides air a gentle deodorant. In ac¬ 
cordance with electricity’s forward march an 
electric incense burner can be bought which 
though not in the traditional mode is very 
much to the manner of today. 
Whether this will appeal to our Greenwich 
Village friends who espouse with all their 
modernity archaic methods, we cannot tell— 
yet would we suggest this device whether 
they be incensed or not. 
Soon there will be on the market a wee 
