everyone values acup of refreshing well-made ‘ Mocha,’ either at breakfast or after dinner, but no one who does not possess a mill can obtain this cheap luxury unless it be away from home. Ideal coffee is the coffee which gourmets relish, and can only be had from the freshly-ground berry ; nor must the pro- duce of one’s labours be allowed to part with aroma and flavour by long exposure to the atmosphere. Coffee, indeed, to be perfect, should be ground almost as often as re- quired. What too often deters the house- keeper from this duty is the tedium entailed by using ineffective, cheap-priced mills, which, like Hodge’s razors, are ‘ made to sell.’ In the Duplex, or Double-cutting Coffee Mill, patented by Messrs. W. and T. Avery, and shown above, we have at once a cheap and really service- able family machine, which, in addition to lasting a lifetime with proj>er care, will grind fine or coarse at pleasure, and in half the time occupied by any ordinary mill, owing to its possessing a double-cutting surface. These capital little servants can be had anywhere for a few shillings. Candles. — Notwithstanding the rivalry of paraffin, kerosene, and gas, the quite unexpected invasion of the ‘ Wenham,’ ‘ Welsback,’ and ‘ Clamond ’ lights, and the thousand and one unsuccessful efforts to establish electricity as a domestic illuminant, candles hold their own, and look like doing so for another half-century longer — perhaps for ever. Indeed, if such a thing as a candle census could be taken, and suitable data existed for drawing just comparisons between the past Avery's best Household Scales and Weights can be obtained at any respectable Co-operative or Ironmonger's Store, or from the manufacturers in Loudon and Birmingham, at the following prices : With tin scales to weigh 7 lb., 14s. ; 14 lb., 17s. ; 2S lb., 21s. If with enamelled scalo, 2s. extra. Catalogues on application. KITCHEN AND DOMESTIC REQUISITES. 137 and present, it would, in all probability, appear that more of these con- venient, safe, and portable luminants are now burnt than at any period in recent history. That this should be so is due, primarily, to the cheapness with which candles are now produced, thus placing them within every- one’s reach. Science, as shown in the illustration below, wherein the modem candle-maker is seen at work, each operator turning out from two to three thousand finished candles per hour, has come to the rescue, enabling competition to be kept up with gas, even in the matter of price, while, with regard to ‘ movability ’ and relative absence from sulphurous and destructive fumes, this lux has naught to fear. In a secondary sense, the continued supremacy of the candle is due to the condition of high finish and excellence to which the manufacture has been pushed by Price’s Patent Candle Company, Limited — the leading makers — and others. A visit to a candle factory— say this firm’s works at Battersea — reveals one fact which a dozen visits to West End shops will not. An almost incredible assortment of candles are now produced to meet Society’s ever-varying and growing demands. Price’s Company alone, we believe, manufacture over a thousand distinctive qualities, shapes, and sizes. Now, if the modest housekeeper, who cannot afford to decorate her salons and tables d diner with electric globules, would

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everyone values a cup of refreshing well-made ‘ Mocha,’ either at breakfast or after dinner, but no one who does not possess a mill can obtain this cheap luxury unless it be away from home. Ideal coffee is the coffee which gourmets relish, and can only be had from the freshly-ground berry ; nor must the produce of one’s labours be allowed to part with aroma and flavour by long exposure to the atmosphere. Coffee, indeed, to be perfect, should be ground almost as often as required. What too often deters the housekeeper from this duty is the tedium entailed by using ineffective, cheap-priced mills, which, like Hodge’s razors, are ‘ made to sell.’ In the Duplex, or Double-cutting Coffee Mill, patented by Messrs. W. and T. Avery, and shown above, we have at once a cheap and really serviceable family machine, which, in addition to lasting a lifetime with proper care, will grind fine or coarse at pleasure, and in half the time occupied by any ordinary mill, owing to its possessing a double-cutting surface. These capital little servants can be had anywhere for a few shillings. Candles. — Notwithstanding the rivalry of paraffin, kerosene, and gas, the quite unexpected invasion of the ‘ Wenham,’ ‘ Welsback,’ and ‘ Clamond ’ lights, and the thousand and one unsuccessful efforts to establish electricity as a domestic illuminant, candles hold their own, and look like doing so for another half-century longer — perhaps for ever. Indeed, if such a thing as a candle census could be taken, and suitable data existed for drawing just comparisons between the past Avery's best Household Scales and Weights can be obtained at any respectable Co-operative or Ironmonger's Store, or from the manufacturers in London and Birmingham, at the following prices : With tin scales to weigh 7 lb., 14s. ; 14 lb., 17s. ; 2S lb., 21s. If with enamelled scalo, 2s. extra. Catalogues on application. and present, it would, in all probability, appear that more of these convenient, safe, and portable luminants are now burnt than at any period in recent history. That this should be so is due, primarily, to the cheapness with which candles are now produced, thus placing them within everyone’s reach. Science, as shown in the illustration below, wherein the modem candle-maker is seen at work, each operator turning out from two to three thousand finished candles per hour, has come to the rescue, enabling competition to be kept up with gas, even in the matter of price, while, with regard to ‘ movability ’ and relative absence from sulphurous and destructive fumes, this lux has naught to fear. In a secondary sense, the continued supremacy of the candle is due to the condition of high finish and excellence to which the manufacture has been pushed by Price’s Patent Candle Company, Limited — the leading makers — and others. A visit to a candle factory— say this firm’s works at Battersea — reveals one fact which a dozen visits to West End shops will not. An almost incredible assortment of candles are now produced to meet Society’s ever-varying and growing demands. Price’s Company alone, we believe, manufacture over a thousand distinctive qualities, shapes, and sizes. Now, if the modest housekeeper, who cannot afford to decorate her salons and tables à diner with electric globules, would

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