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table cloth, napkins, dishes and silver should be clean 
and the dishes should be arranged so that there is as 
little danger as possible of accident. This is the reason, 
for example, for the rule that a spoon should never be 
left in a coffee or tea cup. The arrangement is usually 
more comfortable if nothing is placed on the table which 
is not going to be actually used at the meal, except that 
a few flowers or a little dish of ferns in the center of the 
table is very much liked by most people, if there is room 
for it. It often happens that the family see more of each 
other at meal times than at any other time in the day 
and everyone should try to make meal time a pleasant, 
restful, good humored time. 
Household Weights and Measures 
The careful housewife soon becomes skilled in weigh- 
ing and measuring the various goods she buys and uses. 
At the store she is on guard against short measures, and 
if she does not market in person, she has machines at 
home to test what is delivered. The following table is 
given for frequent reference use by the Girl Scout while 
earning her badges in Homecraft. She will also find it 
useful in learning to judge weights and distances for her 
First Class test. 
Table of Household Weights and Measures 
(Reprinted by permission of publisher from “House- 
wifery,” by L. Ray Balderston, M. A . 
J. B. Lippineott, 1919) 
Linear Measure: 
12 inches 
3 feet 
Sy 2 yards 
320 rods 
1760 yards 
5280 feet 
1 foot 
1 yard 
1 rod 
1 mile 
1 mile 
1 mile 
