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Confections and Conclusion Ill /' LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAQI When the table is to be set, every necessary dish, glass and piece of silver is placed on the papier mâché tray In the kitchen was installed a roll of paper toweling • 14 The papier mâché tray renders one trip only necessary between refrigerator and kitchen. A card index box in which is registered every cent spent in the kitchen department 94 In attractive, screw-top jars sauces and salad dressings are kept ready for use 98 A bread mixer saves time and energy, the cook books in their washable slip covers of white linen; a card index box for recipes and tools attached to the work bench by chains are a few of the devices which make work in the kitchen more efficient S8 The cork bulletin board has proved to be the Good Genie of the house 49 A bread slicer makes sandwiches for Sunday luncheon a very simple matter 48 Fruit to be served in tall, cool-looking glasses for Sunday supper may be prepared on Saturday and placed in a glass jar in refrigerator .19 8 LIST OP ILLUSTRATIONS PAGS The next step was to substitute paper for the linen doilies used on the polished table. Paper napkins, plates and cups have proved dainty, magical time-savers • • 68 I discovered paper bags in which to cook chops to a state of luscious juiciness, and lot those bogies—Greasy Pans— skulked shamefacedly out of sight! • • • 69 Within easy reach on a white enameled towel-rack, such as one sees in a nursery, were arranged the wraps of the Princess #8 Beside the invalid's bed on a small table were an electric night-lantern, a thermos carafe, a clock with an almost soundless tick 79 When one guest arrives unexpectedly serve luncheon on a tray. 'Tis quicker, easier and far more dainty and festive 78 When we serve a cool, refreshing drink to guests on the veranda paper cups are a boon 89 My eyes are always on the watch for an odd-shaped glass jar in which to present jams and jellies to my friends 90 Long before the apple-picking season arrives we search for attractive baskets and hampers 94 That comfort of the servantless, the fireless cooker • • 100 Supper dishes which may be prepared in the morning. Banbury tarts; brown bread for sandwiches; macaroni and tomato sauce; deviled lobster in individual dishes; cheese sandwiches ready to toast 106 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS S pAoa In the hour following supper confections are quickly and easily made on the range or in the chafing dish . • 119 The Japanese shops and ten-cent stores are mines of opportunity in which to find attractive and inexpensive receptacles for tempting homemade candles • • 116 ''Very soon there will be no servant problem^ as there will be no servants." — Ellen Eet. "Thon dost need to learn of our brave Captain John Smithy who made his boast that he scorned to sit down in a library to write of other men's exploits, but that he did rather take his pen and inkhom with him into the trenches and behind the barricades where what his sword did his pen writ/' CHAPTER ONE: PERSONALITIES AND PAPER FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILY CHAPTER I FEBSONALITIES AND PAPER In which is recorded how (me woman having signed a declaration of independence put her hand to the plow of determination. Maey the Temperamental was departing. In spite of the fact that she had a spirit which would have dared the devil; that her cooking was weU-meant but depressing; such are the subtleties and complexities of modem homemaking that there was a stinging sensation beneath my eyelids as I saw her go. In solemn conclave the night before, WE, the family, had agreed that rather than spend one moment of our precious vacation pursuing that elusive, that essentially American product, the general housework girl, we