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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

BY JESSICA JONES

BUSY HOUSEKEEPER.
SHORT, STOUT MAN, with grip, hat in hand, courteous
and brisk.

SCENE-Open door to kitchen.
TIME-Ten o'clock A. M.

S. S. Man. "Good morning, Madam. Came right round to the kitchen door-always know where to find the ladies this time of day. Busy canning strawberries, you say? Well, I'm glad I came this morning; and you will be, too, just as soon as I show you this little labor-saver I'm introducing. This little aluminium, porcelain-lined, selfadjusting fruit-jar cover fits any jar. Madam, you 're one in a hundred to can fruit that won't spoil under a lid like that. [Picks up can-cover lying on kitchen table.]

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seal? Just allow me to place this coverso; there you are, and all by a little pressure of the thumb. Sets that can as jaunty as a bird on a bough, no fussing, no tipping the can on its head to see if the cover fits; juice flies out in ten directions, burns your fingers, stains your bib-none of them aggravating little creases to press with a knife-handle. Can slips, breaks; lose your fruit; big muss to take care of. A neat article that, Madam, a very neat article, and only fifty cents the dozen. Got along with the other kind all these years? course; had to. Nothing like this ever on the market. Used to burn kerosene lamps, too, draw well-water with a windlass, walk to town to get your steak for dinner, before the days of electric lights, city water, and telephone. But would you be willing to try it again for twice the cost? Yessem, fifty cents, and good as long as they last. [Fum

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bles in grip and holds to view a tin utensil.] Here, Madam, is a little article of many offices: pares a potato, thus [illustrates with potato produced from grip], shaves it in a long, continuous curl-so, ready for frying in deep fat; pares and cores an apple with one turn of the wrist-there. Would n't bother with it? The bother comes when you don't have it. Reverse this handle-so. There is an excellent little timbale iron substitute-dip in batter, fry in the deep fat with the potatoes. There's a delicious case for creamed meat, scraps you intended to serve as hash! No time for knickknacks? Just so; this little device is splendid, perfectly splendid in such a case. You intended to serve the family with hash, no dessert, too busy to fuss, and here you have creamed meat in delicious patty-cases-common potato glorified into crisp, brown ribbons, and baked apples for dessert, cored, and centers filled with butter and sugar. Instead of apologizing for your dinner, and children whining, ain't hungry,' they 're eager to see which one gets the first plate, surprised and delighted with a banquet, and you feelin' almost ashamed at the minimum of labor. It's the aid and ally of the busy housewife. And now, in connection with these most excellent household articles, I 'm presenting a most clever thing-I had almost said the most clever thing, ha! ha! Took a woman to invent this; knew just what a woman would like and need: shreds carrots for your soup-cream of carrot, fine

dish; beets and cabbage-there you are [illustrating with aforesaid potato]. They 're for your salad-fine with a cream or mayonnaise dressing. Shreds a pineapple equally well; does n't spill the juice; whip whites of three eggs; shred a pine,-sugar, fold together, dot top with candied cherries,there's a dessert you can serve to your most intimate friend without quaking. Shreds cocoanut fine and rich,-have icing boiled ready to spread on cakes, beat in freshshredded cocoanut; spread between and cover light cakes-delicious-and there you have it from soup to finish-a meal fit for a family of kings, for that matter, and all done with this one small, durable, easy-toclean, bright, attractive utensil.

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"That's not necessary, Madam. don't need the money this morning. Take your order for the goods, deliver them in ten days-how's that? Could I leave them to-day? Yes; your jar covers are old. You would like the creamed meat and ribbon potatoes for dinner? Yes, just so; hash does get tiresome, even if it 's ever so well made. Yes, indeed; the carrot soup, beet and cabbage salad, pineapple pudding and cocoanut, will delight your company. Now, this is luck: put extra samples in my grip this morning, contrary to my regular habit. Could n't do this with all my customers,no, indeed, could n't pack the stuff round. Yes, this is an exceptional case; exceptional customer, too, ha! ha! That 's quite right one-fifty. Thank you. Good morning."

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"HOW ECONOMICAL! ONE MOUTH-ORGAN DOES FOR ALL THE CHILDREN!"

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