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Soups are es difficult to classify as hash, being made of almost any substances which teeth, either human or store, are accustomed to act upon. The soup-kettle has been aptly termed "the kitchen waste-basket," receiving many a choice culinary manuscript which might otherwise go for naught.

With an energetic and active soup-kettle, true household economy is possible. The failure of yesterday may easily become the triumph of to-day, and experiments which a disdainful family sneered at, and refused to include, are often sent rejoicing down "the little red lane," when presented in the guise of soup.

What keener pleasure may life hold for a housewife with a sense of humor than to see a family refuse sausages one day and gladly eat soup based upon those selfsame sausages the very next night? "Consistency," Emerson said, "is the hobgoblin of little minds," but one would hesitate, under such circumstances,