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���This baby's bath is soft and safe- he can splash safely

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��A Tub Within a Tub for the Baby

HIS ^lAJESTY, THE BABY, can have a royal bath every morning in a soft little tub designed to fit inside the large tub of his elders. A seamless, waterproof fabric is supported by a rigid frame across the top of the regular bath- tub. The small tub is located at the front of the frame, so that the nurse need not reach across it. The fabric goes over the bars to make a soft bump- er, and it can be removed easily and laid flat for cleansing. When not in use the frame can be hung upon a hook on the bathroom wall.

Preventing the Clogging of the Sink

ANEW sanitary device is installed in many of the new homes and apartment houses, in Los Angeles, Cali- fornia. It does away with the danger of

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having clogged drain pipes in the kitchen. The device consists of a removable pail with a fine strainer trap in the bottom. The enamel sink is constructed so as to receive this pail, which fits snugly into place, leaving no room for bits of food to collect. The dishes are rinsed off under the faucet, and all the scraps go into this receptacle. As the strainer is finer than in the usual type of sink, all the small particles are caught in the trap and do not flow into the drain pipes. The strainer is removable so that all the grease which has been retained in the trap can be cleaned off.

A Saucepan Which Is Also a Strainer

A SAUCEPAN which may also be used as a strainer is one of the lat- est additions to kitchen equipment. Pour- ing boiling water from a saucepan and holding the cover on to avoid losing some of the vegetables is always dangerous. The new saucepan has a strainer equip- ped with a rim on the pouring side of the

���This strainer is built into the sink itself

��No need to scald fingers in draining vegetables from this saucepan

kettle in which holes have been punched. In use, the cover is removed, the pan picked up by the handle, and the water poured out. The rim prevents the food from spilling, but allows the water to run.

The pan is especially useful for boil- ing potatoes in their jackets, since the operation can be accomplished so quickly that when the cover is put back, enough steam is retained to burst the jackets. The main qualification of the new sauce- pan, is that the housewife is less likely to burn her hands than with the ordinary utensil.

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