Chopping bowls of sugar maple (not southern maple) are kitchen necessities. These do not splinter and they make the din of chopping less obnoxious. The rotary chopping machine is not always analogous to the chopping bowl, for who could chop parsley as well in a chopper as with blade and bowl? Wooden bread boards and cake boards, of course, are invaluable (pie “boards” are better of marble, porcelain or their cognates). These must be of hard wood such as maple or birch and so made as to be knotless, crackless and long grained. A damp cloth will remove traces of material used thereon. The onion should have its own little chopping board for obvious reasons. Noodle boards are oblong, usually of white wood and come from 14″×20″ to 20″×30″. These have a descending ledge at the near side to hold fast to the table and an ascending ledge on the far side to keep the dough from sliding off. Bread boards are round and are from 10″ to 11″ in diameter. Pastry boards can be had from 12″×16″ to 20″×30″. The wooden step, non-rickety and solid, is of inestimable value in the kitchen where the worker is too short for the tables or tubs, or where things must needs be on high shelves. The step chair which readily is changed from ladder to chair combines a 2-in-1 arrangement, that makes room in a kitchen by obviating extra chairs and extra space for a pair of steps or ladder. We would warn purchasers against the salesman of wood garbage buckets or pails. In no case are they as sanitary as regular metal containers. But the oak pail, keg or bucket for cider, vinegar, preserves or water is a good culinary adjunct. They are hard, firm and well constructed in the best makes. Often these things have been quite forgotten and yet they are quite useful in kitchen economy. Wooden pails come for various uses--scrubbing pails, water pails, jelly pails and flour pails. They are made with two or three hoops and are of pine, cedar, oak grain or oak. The flour pails hold from 12¹⁄₂ to 50 pounds of flour. The jelly pails hold from 5 to 30 pounds of jelly and are a convenience to the house-keeper who puts up a lot at a time and who has a large menage. The large wooden spoon for use in acid cookery--preserves and the like--is indispensable to the epicurean household and should be on every kitchen utensil list. The clothes-horse is practically an extinct animal. In its place has come a different species of varying kinds. Some fold up against the wall, some are pulleyed up to the ceiling and get the ascending heat of the room for drying and some don’t fold at all. Some are built for porch use, garden use and roof use. But all are less aggressive than the extinct “horse.” A close relation to the clothes rack is the towel rack and hand towel roller, usually of wood and made as well of this material as any other.