MODERN AIDS TO HOUSEWIVES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3592, 3 August 1912, Page 4

MODERN AIDS TO HOUSEWIVES.

MANY OF THEIR DUTIES MAID-. EASIER AND PLEASANTER.

The women who do their own housework and who have the most spaio time are those who .have modern appliances and convenient arrangements in their kitchens and households. Once housewives learn what a time, labor and fuel saver the fireless cooker is, no home, not even the most humble, will bo without one. In addition, the cooker eliminates much of the drudgery and unpleasantness of cooking over a hot stove. The -paper bag cooking system does away- with cooking utensils, it is clean and sanitary, and it is claimed that food cooked in this manner does not shrink of lose its na-

tural flavor or substance- * One of the important items is the

gas range, which lias lately undergone many improvements. One of these is placing the oven, wanner and broiier on the top; tins saves time and tho inconvenience of bending down. AnOther improvement is. the equipping with glass doors through which the housewife may watch her, roast or bread without lowering the temperature of the oven by opening the door. Then there is a whole set of appliances to assist the housewife in what has always been considered the laborious features of her work. The modern dish-dryer is the most common of these. The dishes are washed and placed in this ‘wire device and then hot water is poured over them and they are allowed to dry, doing away entirely with the labor of drying each individual dish. The mechanical food chopper chops -all kinds of meats, raw or cooked, vegetables, fruits, or nuts, without mashing them or wasting the natural juice. It does away with the chopping knife and bowl entirely, and does the work in about one-tenth of the time. The choppers have several different adjustments used for cutting coarse, medium and fine.

Another appliance of a similar character is that which compresses vegetables and fruits to extract their juices. It can be used, for instance, for making puree of bean or taniato and for extracting juices of any fruit. This device is really a mechanical colander, worked by rotary motion instead of the old hand method. The new breadmaker mixes and kneads bread in three minutes, and the breadmaker’s hands don’t have to touch the dough at all. Cake-making machines are built on the same principle, and may also be used for beating eggs, whipping cream and making all kinds of soft batters. Even dust cloths have been improved and now the use of oil mops and oil dust cloths eliminates every particle of dust from the floors and furniture arid does not scatter it about as does tho ordinary mop or broom.