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2074. The Subject of Kitchen Furniture may be considered as having been sufficiently noticed, when treating of that for cottages, farm-houses, and inns. The dressers and tables recommended for those dwellings require only to be enlarged for villas, and chairs are nearly the same every where, if their object be chiefly use. We shall only introduce one or two articles in addition to what we have already given.

2075. The Wringing-Machine, fig. 1858, we can from experience strongly recommend for small laundries. The articles to be wrung, when large, are taken out of the washing-tub, and, being passed over the pin at a, the two ends are put through the hole of the twister, b, which is turned round by the spokes, c. The water drops into the trough, d, from which it runs off into a tub or other vessel through the tube, e. When small articles are to be wrung, they are put into a coarse hempen bag, which is then treated as above mentioned. By means of this machine, which does not wear the linen more than common wringing, all the most laborious part of washing is done away with in small families, as it is by the larger machine, fig. 1262, in laundries on a large scale.



2076. There are two Washing-Machines for small families; one of which is the washing part of fig. 1262, on a smaller scale, and the other is fig. 1335, also on a smaller scale. We have tried both these machines, and find both good, the latter being best for small delicate articles. The objection brought against the lever machine is, that it wears out the linen; but this we believe to be chiefly prejudice, and in part neglect of putting into the machine a sufficient quantity of water. The barrel washing-machine, as manufactured by Weir and Co., and the wringing-machine, fig. 1858, arc used in our family, and are found to save much labour, and not to do the clothes the slightest injury.

2077. A Filtering-Machine, portable or fixed, and of a temporary or permanent construction, ought to be considered essential in every family, whether poor or rich. We have already pointed out a cheap filter for the cottager, and there are several which claim the attention of the occupier of a villa. Mr. Melhuish, a plumber in Gray's Inn Lane, not only filters water by a very simple process in kitchens, but has an apparatus by which it may be filtered in ships, during their motion at sea. Mr. Struthers, in Parliament Street, manufactures a cheap, expeditious, and most excellent filter, the case of which is slate; an article which he also applies to the construction of milk-coolers, salting-troughs, dairy-tables, cellar-doors, and safes for the preservation of papers from fire. There are, besides, the portable filtering-machines of Robins and of other candidates for public patronage.

2078. Chairs. Figs. 1859 to 1862, to a scale of half an inch to a foot, are hall chairs,