If your cabinet is to be of wood, see to it that it is ant proof (the castors as well), has all round corners, is varnished and finished steamproof, has locks that lock, doors that easily open, whether one leaf is shut or both, whether it is winter or summer, supplies a broad enough table to sit down and work at comfortably, a table top impervious to liquids, grease and heat, sanitary glass drawer pull, dovetail wood joinings, easy rolling castors, everything easily withdrawn to clean, and of non-warping, well-seasoned wood. The finish must be the best, whether enameled, painted or varnished. In the cabinet of steel construction you must be sure that the enamel is on to stay; that the doors, drawers and locks are of the best construction, electrically welded. The doors, etc., must be rigid enough not to emit hollow sounds every time they are closed. In the best type the doors do not dent or wobble but are double, about ⁷⁄₁₆″ thick, reinforced on the inside with heavy steel angles, making them rigidity enthroned. The frames are rabbeted to receive doors and drawers, thus giving no overhang but making a flush surface. The doors in the steel cabinet are more comfortable to handle if they are hung on concealed brass hinges, with bullet catches which enable the doors to open and shut absolutely independent of each other. In both the steel and the wood cabinets the table tops are all of different material. The best steel type in our opinion uses nickled zinc; the best wood cabinets use porcelain, iron, aluminum, vitreous steel, enamel, etc. Any of these tops are good and when in the standard makes you can be very sure that they have been well tried and not found wanting in any essential quality. In general, then, the cabinet is a receptacle for the most used things in the kitchen; therefore, is so much used itself that it cannot be too good and should be adapted to your special need. If you are building a house and want to have your kitchen a real comfort, install a kitchen cabinet or go to the firm that, with its unit system, can make up a kitchen cabinet combining most of the best things you see in any. This is an expensive way but a miraculous joy. If you want a cabinet to be installed before the house is built it is a saving in wall tiling where the cabinet is placed, especially if the cabinet is made of steel. There is one cabinet on the market that has an ice box in it, which when installed with the back toward the porch wall makes it possible for the ice to be put in from the porch and all packages delivered from the porch through its parcel-service shelf opening on the porch! In this cabinet there is, too, room for a gas stove or electric plates, so that with it you have a complete, compact kitchen.