Very nearly meeting the constant question: “Do you know of an instantaneous heater?” comes the electric water heater which when attached to your faucet gives instantaneous, exceedingly hot water. It is a small thing not more than 8″ high and will be a boon of boons when absolutely perfect. During the summer, the attic gets overheated and makes itself an impossible place for sleeping. This need not be, as there is a material that comes in sheets to line the walls and ceiling. For cellars the warmth is kept in; for attics the heat is kept out. Could there be anything more simple and adaptable. To close this chapter safely we can do no more than suggest a ready-made fence! It has been on the market years--for the pastures--but is now being introduced for the garden use of people who don’t want to or can’t make a new fence. It is delightful--of rough hewn wood, 4, 5, or 6 bars, posted and diagonalled. For a rambling place for roses and vines it has no equal and to be able to buy fences by the yard for the yard is veritably both joy and comfort brought to your very doors. CHAPTER XL MEASURE FOR MEASURE “A pint’s a pound the year around,” said a little old lady dealing out some lead shot, to a young man gunner, who received a pint of shot for his pound and went off thinking he had begun his hunt with augury well imposed! “What’s lighter, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead?” These two idea rousers never would have been born were it not for the average ignorance and negligence of weights and measures in the average time-bound home. True it is, if we are time-run we certainly are inaccurately measured and weighed, especially in our kitchens--where over-doses may injure, where under-doses and over-doses may ruin recipes! There is really no need for this--we have had careful training in _our_ youth with “tables.” Recall herewith when absolutely perfect. AVOIRDUPOIS 27.3 grains equal 1 dram (dr.) 16 drams “ 1 ounce (oz.) 16 ounces “ 1 pounds (lb.) 100 pounds “ 1 hundred weight (cwt.) DRY MEASURE 2 pints equal 1 quart (qt.) 8 quarts “ 1 peck 4 pecks “ 1 bushel 105 dry qts. “ 1 bbl.--vegetables etc. LIQUID MEASURE 4 gills equal 1 pint 2 pints “ 1 quart 4 quarts “ 1 gallon 31¹⁄₂ gals. “ 1 bbl. LINEAR MEASURE 12 inches equal 1 foot 3 feet “ 1 yard 5¹⁄₂ yards “ 1 rod 320 rods “ 1 mile } not quite indoors 1760 yards “ 1 mile } but useful to know 5280 feet “ 1 mile } SQUARE MEASURE 144 sq. inches equal 1 sq. foot 9 “ feet “ 1 “ yard 30¹⁄₄ “ yards “ 1 “ rod 160 “ rods “ 1 acre These are the classics over which we of the ancient régime trembled but which, in the new régime, youth imbibes in unwitting doses and grows in spite of itself into engineers and surveyors!