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for suggestions as to weights and measures.

CHINA

China for the kitchen can be had at varying prices depending largely on the part of the country where you live--from ten cents upward if there is a dime shop around. Yet there are inexpensive sets to be had from time to time at from $20 upward--and downward.

It isn’t always necessary to buy at the beginning a whole set of china for the kitchen. Six of each thing ought to be plenty for a time, counting breakage, which is perennial.

Platters for the ice box in enamel are excellent, but if you have extra plates for kitchen use they might (subject to easier breakage) be utilized.

THE COOK BOOK

Last but not by any means least is the cook book. For what availeth it if you have utensils by the score if you know not how to fill them and manage foods in them?

There are many books on the market of fame and repute, but we have yet to see one for the beginner that outdoes the _Home Science Cook Book_, by Anna Barrows and Mary B. Lincoln. Both these women have cooked and lectured and taught the science of cookery, and, what is more, they know its practise. In this book are to be found simple, brief, successful, economical recipes and methods of serving which in their very simplicity knock terror out of the culinary life for the matrimonial initiate. The writer of this article has had eulogies heaped upon her by various brides and even experienced housekeepers for the knowledge given them of this book.

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