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A Serviceable Hot Water Heater Which Can be Made at Home

A SERVICEABLE hot water heater can be made in the home, and it will give as satisfactory results as the more expensive ready-made heaters which are directly attached to the boiler. Pipes should be led from the center and

���The home worker can make the connections and install this heater

bottom of the boiler, joining in a U- shaped pipe. Brass unions should be used as joints, being installed at the back of the stove. The water front, or heating unit, consists of the U-pipe, bent in a small enough radius so both sides , are in range of the burner. It should be packed in place with fire clay.

How a Course Dinner Can be Served Without a Maid

A CLEVERLY devised china closet is built into the wall between the dining room and kitchen, a long serving counter and the dish-storage shelves above it opening into both rooms, the linen and silver drawers opening into the di-ning room only. The sink and drainboard are on the kitchen wall ad- joining the cupboard, which makes easy the putting away of dishes after wash- ing. The range is as near as possible on the second adjoining wall, to save steps in dishing up a meal and placing it upon the counter.

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The unique feature of the cupboard i? that the dining room front of the serv- ing counter is hidden from view, when desired, by three sliding doors. The kitchen face of the counter is uncovered. In serving a meal the housekeeper lays the table with the first, or soup course; places the second, or meat and vegetable course on the counter behind slide B ; and the third, or dessert course, behind slide C.

Without returning to the kitchen she can later remove the first course and place it on the empty counter behind slide A; remove the waiting second course, which has been concealed by slide B; later, place the soiled dishes of the second course back behind this same slide B; and serve the dessert that is ready behind slide C. When the meal is finished she can put the remains of the dessert back upon the counter at C.

In preparing to wash the dishes she finds, upon reaching the kitchen again, that they are on the counter at her right, as they should be, and she scrapes and piles them upon the drainboard at her left. This makes it possible to route the process of dish cleansing from right to left, which is most efficient.

���A china closet which makes it possible to serve course dinners easily without a maid and can also serve as a pantry

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��SERVING COUNTER.

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