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STEAMING KETTLE

-A shallow pan with a perforated bottom, lowered its full length into a deep kettle. To steam vegetables, puddings, or in fact any thing that is usually cooked by immersion in hot water, put water in the deep kettle, place article in the perforated pan, cover closely, and keep the water boiling. It is impossible for any article so cooked to become watersoaked. A CLOTHES-LINE PROTECTOR is not a new invention, but it can not be said to be in general use. It consists simply of a little box fastened to a post and inclosing a wheel and a crank, with which a hundred feet of line can be wound up in one minute. When the line is wanted, it can be run out with equal facility, and by a turn of the wheel can be tightened, then a catch holds it in its place.

A TOASTER is made of a sheet of tin large enough to contain six slices of bread. The edges are turned up about half an inch and bound with wire, and perforations are cut about two inches apart in the shape of a V through the bottom, and the sharp points turned up so as to penetrate and hold the bread in place. A stiff wire handle is fastened firmly to the middle of the back, so that the toaster is kept at the right angle before the fire, and, if it toasts too rapidly at top or bottom, it may easily be inverted.