When the housekeeper is filling out her list of household linens and cottons she must not overlook dusters, floor-cloths, mop-cloths, dish-cloths, or mops--I hope she uses the latter!--and other similar requirements. In this advanced day there are new articles in this line which present themselves constantly and which the housekeeper must decide for herself to be luxuries or necessities. For supplying the china-closet a fixed rule is almost impossible. The best plan is for the housekeeper to make out for herself what her family will need and then to consult an intelligent clerk in a good china-shop. Sometimes it is cheaper to buy a whole set of china than to select from “open stock” the pieces that are absolutely required. Soup, dinner, dessert plates; plates for lunch and for breakfast, for afternoon tea, for salad, for entrées; service plates; meat and vegetable dishes in china or silver, can all be purchased in a charming variety and at a reasonable price. The same is true of glassware. Many gifts will fit in well here, and the stock of silver is pretty sure to be received from the family or friends. In the kitchen matters are different. Few persons present culinary plenishing, and it almost always devolves upon the housekeeper to select it for herself. While she may have developed needs in certain explicit directions, there are a few rules which can be laid down for her general guidance, certain articles which it is safe to declare essentials. Such are the following: Two 1-quart saucepans One 2-quart saucepan One 5-quart saucepan One 3-quart double boiler One 2-quart double boiler Two baking-pans for meat _or_ one plain baking-pan and one covered roaster One large frying-pan One small frying-pan One colander One graduated quart measure One graduated half-pint cup One meat-broiler One fish or oyster broiler Three jelly-cake tins One large cake-tin One biscuit-pan One set muffin-tins Three bread-tins Three pie-plates One 2-quart pitcher Two jelly-molds One pudding-mold One steamer One teakettle One teapot One coffee-pot Fireless cooker Chopping bowl and knife Meat chopper or grinder Soapstone griddle Cake-turner Bread bowl and board Rolling-pin Board for cutting meat Board for cutting bread Meat-saw Bread-knife Bread-box Cake-box Butter-paddles Potato-beetle Egg-beater Scales Lemon-squeezer Meat-fork One large crockery mixing-bowl Two small crockery mixing-bowls One platter Two pudding-dishes Set of skewers Cheese or vegetable grater Nutmeg-grater Vegetable-press Soup-strainer Coffee or tea strainer Coffee-mill Corkscrew Pair of scissors Can-opener Small vegetable-knives Mixing-spoons Flour-dredger Salt-shaker Cake-cutters Split spoon Skimmer Ice-pick Other no less important articles are as follows: