CONTENTS

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Introduction. The Housekeeper as Manager.  
  By Richardson Wright, Editor of House and Garden Magazine xi
CHAPTER
I. Introducing You to Electricity 1
  Electricity simplified for your many uses.  
II. Keeping Out of Hot Water 13
  Making dishwashing a pleasant game. How the drudgery of dishwashing is banished by electricity.  
III. Electrocuting the Wash 22
  No more wasting the laundress. Electric laundries make washing, drying and ironing swifter and cleaner.  
IV. The Portable Vacuum Cleaner 45
  Makes a clean sweep if you buy the right kind.  
V. A Pipe Dream 54
  The stationary vacuum plant in your cellar is piped for convenience, like water to your chambers.  
VI. Cooking by Electric Current 62
  Not a currant jam, but a release of time and a gain in cleanliness and comfort.  
VII. Taking Guesswork Out of Gas Cookery 75
  Done by the new devices for timing and temperatures and the new surfaces for cooking.  
VIII. The Oil Range 86
  These days can never say “Call me oily, mother dear,” as the new ranges are odorless, swift and clean cookers.  
IX. Cooking by Absent Treatment 96
  The method of the new fireless electric cookers.  
X. Questions From the League of Rations 100
  Well met by the new kitchenette equipments.  
XI. Keeping It Cool 106
  The refrigerator is good only if you buy the best types. The points are here for your digestion.  
XII. The Passing of the Ice Man 113
  The irrevocable tragedy with the advent of the ice-making refrigerators.  
XIII. A Burning Question 119
  The incinerator. The right kind of incineration is the only way to answer the question.  
XIV. Air and its Entrance and Exit 126
  Depend on many things detailed in this chapter.  
XV. The Plumbing in Your Kitchen 136
  A “piping” chapter in reference to sinks of all kinds, refrigerator connection, etc.  
XVI. Knife-Life in the Kitchen 150
  Speaks for their habits, habitat, uses, and abilities.  
XVII. The Ancient Wood Implements 163
  Their place in your modern economy.  
XVIII. Glass Ware 170
  Some transparent but overlooked facts.  
XIX. The Bride’s Kitchen 175
  With its accessories is the same as any first equipment for any kitchen (utensils, function, etc.).  
XX. Canning and Preserving 187
  With many new angles.  
XXI. Casseroles or the Revolution Culinary 197
  An exciting title for a casserole discussion.  
XXII. Furnishing Your Kitchen 202
  The best, according to your purse, is suggested here. Tables much discussed.  
XXIII. Kitchen Cosmetics 211
  How to “make-up” the kitchen with paint and varnish.  
XXIV. The Great American Dish 220
  Ice cream is made possible by proper implements.  
XXV. The Kitchen Rotary Club 229
  Tells of the new and old buffers and mixers for culinary amalgamations, etc., and how to “beat it” modernly.  
XXVI. Flaws or Floors in Your Kitchen 236
  Gives advice as to choice and treatment of floorings.  
XXVII. Federalizing Your Kitchen 244
  Having kitchen cabinets built the right way, so that from them kitchen processes can comfortably be directed.  
XXVIII. When the Pot Hangs High 250
  A plea for the convenient arrangement of everyday kitchen utensils. Hooks versus closets, and daylight versus dark.  
XXIX. Brushing up on Brushes 255
  Their manufacture, functions, treatment, and adaptability to different things.  
XXX. The Quiet House 264
  How by insulations, and various other devices, quiet may be had in any home.  
XXXI. Ostracizing the Fly 269
  By screens (and cleanliness). Here cleanliness is taken for granted and screens are discussed—not movie but movable screens.  
XXXII. Polishing the Water Supply 282
  Another way of saying, “Here are ways to filter water properly.”  
XXXIII. Outstripping the Gale 292
  By weather stripping. A discussion of weather strips to save time, money and health.  
XXXIV. Beauty and the Bath 302
  Retails the new bathroom fixings which make them less like a hospital in appearance.  
XXXV. The Winter of Your Content 313
  Can be had only by heating plants properly bought and kept.  
XXXVI. Outlets Save Your Income 328
  In lighting the house.  
XXXVII. Tin Ware, Rubber and Paper 337
  Mere articles of use and comfort.  
XXXVIII. Come Out of the Parlor 343
  And see what lovely gifts you can give from the realm of the kitchen.  
XXXIX. Latest Inventions 348
  At least as late as the printing of a new book permitted.  
XL. Measure for Measure 354
  A warning in terms of weights and measures for kitchen economy.  
XLI. Taking the Kitchen Along 366
  When motoring or picnicking what to carry.  
XLII. The Fire Hazard 370
  Ways to decrease the danger of fire.  
XLIII. Taking Care of the Household Equipment 390
  The only way to cheat the junk-pile after buying the best devices.  
XLIV. A Few Suggestive Books 400
  In which you may read further about things we could not touch upon in this short collection.