But to save the rapid cookery processes, the glass utensil has been born and is waxing popular. Rapidity is its chief attribute. By this rapidity in cooking there is a saving of fuel, and as the utensils are taken directly from the stove, as are the casseroles, and used on the tables, there is the same saving of service time. These glass utensils bring out the flavors in all kinds of foods; they do not absorb odors or greases; they are very easy to keep clean; there is never any burn to remove and one can always see inside the utensil to find out how the food is faring! On first thought you may fear breakage. But they don’t break. They are strongly guaranteed against breakage in the oven. They are annealed so perfectly that they can stand intense and sudden heat and not break. Chauffeurs from France came back with great tales of safety glass which is used on motors. This glass rarely breaks. Even if hit by shrapnel it simply cracks and crazes. This fact will give confidence in what the scientific manufacturers of glass are doing to-day. This cooking glass is also made in engraved patterns which make it suitable for the most exacting table use. But why is it that cooking can be done so much more rapidly in the glass ware? Because the glass utensil utilizes by the nature of glass composition every bit of heat in the oven and the metal utensil does not. This is proved by putting a metal and a glass pot in the oven equally full of water and the glass pot will boil very soon while the ... you can guess the rest. Of course, this glass is only usable in the oven. It is really miracle stuff because even boiling water poured into one of the utensils won’t break it. Can everything be cooked in this ware? A pretty good range: light omelets, dried fruit, cake, bread, meat and rechaufférs. The glass casserole is very much in vogue at present because the glass ware is adaptable to slow cooking, too. It’s amazing, isn’t it, to think what can be done with glass and china fire-proof as they have become! Yet it isn’t when you think of crossing the ocean in sixteen hours. But what is amazing is that some women are so slow to investigate and are willing to live in their unexplored mediæval culinary ruts, while in every other line they seem to be so up and coming. But women that do their own work are far more forward looking. CHAPTER XXII FURNISHING YOUR KITCHEN Furnishing the kitchen sounds simple enough. But it is not. Everything put into the kitchen must have not only beauty and uniformity, but also utility, durability, tool shop convenience, and the maximum hygienic attributes. In one word, the furnishings must have absolute utensibility.