If you would give a regal gift to the Monarch of Culinaria, the kitchen cabinet is the thing. It is compact little kitchen “with everything in it but the kitchen stove,” and fills the need of the worker in the badly planned and equipped city kitchen and the unplanned kitchen out of town. Although not exclusively a kitchen gift, the vacuum cleaner cannot be excelled as a present. Once bestowed you are looked upon as a fairy god-parent. Why not give one for a wedding present sometime? The fireless cookers and refrigerators would come under this classification too, but they vary in price too much to record here. ELECTRIC DISHWASHERS AND STOVES If there be a regent and not a cook in your kitchen, she will welcome with tired arms the electric dishwasher, the boon to the woman doing her own work. It costs about $150. or thereabouts and makes housework a game rather than drudgery. Haven’t you often heard the young wife say: “I wouldn’t mind house work at all if it weren’t for the dishwashing.” Then there is the magic--yes, magic--electric stove family! There isn’t time enough left to tell of some of their wonder workings. If you gave one of these (costing about $180), you would be giving at the same time money, time-to-herself, and the rest cure. Some of these stoves automatically cook and stop their cooking while you are out or sleeping, save money because they make cheap cuts of meat taste like expensive cuts, act as fireless cookers and refrigerators and ... I will leave the rest to your investigation. Of course, there are the electric laundry appliances, casseroles, ice-cream freezers which must be turned and which must not be turned, convenient egg-heaters, buffers, kitchenette articles, and countless other things in the line of percolators, etc., which are obvious and need no mind-jerking from us. All these things are gifts of value, tremendous helps to the cook and ought to be boons to the seeker for something to give. Be elastic! Come out of the parlor and go into the kitchen for a new field of giving. Gifts raise the value of things and the value of culinary pursuits need raising. CHAPTER XXXIX LATEST INVENTIONS There may be nothing new under the sun but there is always something inviting under the roofs of our manufactories, in these labor, time and energy sparing days. Not to keep abreast of the news is perhaps to lose at least a week out of your year in time and a few tons of actual effort. There is an ideal mixer on the market which attacks and synthesizes a mayonnaise, cream or eggs, mixes cakes, makes bread of its ingredients, and all in all can almost be hitched to the stars and change the rotations of the solar system, extravagantly speaking. It is modeled on a giant mixer formerly used in hotels and soda fountains but now adapted to home use. Furthermore, it is prepared to annihilate meats, nuts and fruits. It is a complete power unit and worked by electricity.