The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-01-24

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matched set of utensils. That is one
of the big things about utensils now.
They come in matched sets. And in
the most vivid pastel shades; you can
fry herring DO you fry herringO in
a frying pan of shell pink or Alice blue.
Cooking at the Table.
For years the electrical appliance
manufacturers and the public utilities
have been trying to educate" the pub
lie into cooking right at the table, and
the trend is more plainly to be seen
this year than ever. There are
chrome-plated ovens that plug into
any outlet, electric tea kettles with
trigger spouts, and all sorts of new
gadgets for table use. One of the
most practical is device which keeps
dishes warm, without overheating
them, until they are ready to be
served; one variation of this idea will
also keep cold dishes cold in hot
weather There are coasters now
which ring bells, light signal lights
and in other ways warn you that the
toast is ready; they do everything but
scrape the toast.
TO use in cooking right on the range
are some more articulate affairs.
There is tea kettle which sings when
the water boils. And an egg cooker
(they say eggs should be cooked, not
boiled-boiling makes them tough)
with a baby chick sitting on top of
it; the chick peeps when the eggs are
ready.
Manufacturers of cooking ranges
have discovered that when all the
burners are located in a square on
one side of the range the house
wife has to reach over front
burner to attend to anything on rear
burner. So the 1886 ranges will have
two burners on each side, with table
top in between, or four burners at the
back of the range, with the table top
in front.
Streamlining has reached even cleo
trio irons. And this year they will
have several graduations of heat, as
before but instead of being marked
Hot, Medium and Warm, these gradu-
atoms will be plainly marked with
the kind of materials for which they
are used: Linens, Woolens, Silks, etc.
Streamlining is by no means the
only feature the 1886 vacuum cleaner
has borrowed from the automobile. 1t
has headlights, gear shift and even
floating power, with the mechanism
Graded in vibrationless mountings.
And talk about pickup! It's in the
bag.
Some More Trick Gadgets.
There are other innovations, too nu-
merous to catalogue here, awaiting the
1886 homemaker. Among them are
card tables that won't tip even If a 200
FOUNDER stands right on the edge of
them; washing machines with wringers
through which it is safe to run a FL
jewel watch (not MY watch, thank
you); an electric percolator with a
dial device for weak, medium or strong
coffee; a heat-regulated frying pan
guaranteed not to burn or sc0rch food,
and a cooker in which you can cook
onions, chocolate pudding, cauliflower,
chicken and last nights potatoes, all
ut once, without having any of the
tastes or odors mix. Or, you can SIM
ply cook hash.
The lamp markets presented so many
individual styles produced by different
manufacturers that it is difficult to
pick any definite trends from them.
Here are a couple of random tips.
though: Shades of rough, coarse-wov-
en- fabrics will be good, as will parch-
ment shades with designs punched in
them.
The situation in the chinaware mar
ket was, to the lay eye, much the same.
Looking at some new Japanese dishes,
decorated with brilliant plaid design
exactly like some of the new table
cloths, one couldn't help specializing
upon the embarrassment Of some day
discovering his elbows to be right on
his plate, instead of just on the table
cloth, though.
And to conclude on a happy note:
For the bathtub vocalists-recognition
at lastl The new shower curtains
have the music printed right on them.
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