Although there is a vast number of really useful labour and time-saving appliances in the market to-day, it is a remarkable fact that there are but comparatively few houses into which they have been introduced.

The British housewife is apt to be distinctly behind the times in her kitchen; if her mother's cook was content to do all the chopping by hand, pound away at the bread-dough, etc.. why should she spend her money and pamper her domestics with mincing machines, bread mixers, forcing bags, wire and hair sieves ?

The daintiest little moulds can be obtained, and other contrivances that put joy into the heart of any cook. Of such kitchen treasures there are scores, such as: The frying basket, vegetable pressers, trussing needles, cutters, egg poachers, egg whisks, apple corers, pastry brushes.

Many of these things can be bought for less than a shilling, and yet the cook is grudged these helpers, although, maybe, she is allowed a "char" at 2s. 6d. per day and her meals, plus her wonderful skill for producing the muddle and dirt which she is supposed to be eradicating.