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Cheating the Junk-Pile: The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments

Chapter 5: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Ethel R. Peyser
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The author offers practical guidance for selecting, using, and caring for household equipment to avoid wasteful replacements and clutter. Emphasizing the householder as manager, the text recommends establishing a purchasing policy, evaluating devices by their desirable traits, and balancing cost with durability. Chapters describe common labor-saving appliances, methods for maintaining them to extend service life, and ways to coordinate suppliers and household personnel for greater efficiency. The aim is to help readers simplify domestic life, treat purchases as investments rather than expenses, and prevent the accumulation of unusable goods through informed buying and regular upkeep.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Bungalow and palace can be fed with the newer oil ranges with plenty of space and ovens Frontispiece
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A way to keep out of “hot water”—The portable dishwasher 15
The dishwasher which is a table when not washing 19
Wet days can be dry days no matter what the law may be with the indoor dryer 33
Looking for the dust which was sucked down from above stairs! 55
Electric range 63
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Hood and stove heated by gas and wood 75
The smooth top 38″ gas range takes the stoop out of stoopid cookery 77
Taking the guess work out of oven temperatures by the use of an automatic heat regulator 81
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A corner in Walter Russell’s kitchenette 100
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When there is a cellar used for the laundry, the ice-maker coils can be set down there with ease and simplicity 106
Nor cold nor heat can get beyond these fortifications 109
She is cool even in summer with moving air 129
Devices designed by the author for keeping cutlery in cutting form 158
Another device designed by the author for keeping cutlery in cutting form 160
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Showing the meat-chopping table, range 202
A member of the kitchen rotary club at work on cake-mixing 231
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An ideal kitchen with linotile floor, built-in steel kitchen cabinet units and cook’s table, with pot hanger comfort 236
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A steel unit kitchen cabinet flanked by broom and duster closets 244
The screen which rolls up is a comfort as well as a safe and sure insect ostracizer 275
Double hung or ordinary sliding window treatment with weatherstrips obviates draughts, dust and noise—saves coal! 295
A method of heating water by means of a faucet attachment 325
Detach plug from iron as well as from socket if you want your home intact 382
She has prepared the way for a nice little fire 383

CHEATING THE JUNK-PILE