The bread and pastry roller is usually of wood and is quite efficient. There are glass rollers on the market but, of course, these can chip. Special noodle rollers are made now of maple and birch and are long and thin, giving quick contact like a low gear! Some rollers have designs cut in them for finishing off a bit of dough with a pattern. Potato, slaw and bread cutters are merely wood receptacles with cutting blade insertions. Knife drawers or racks with grooves to keep the knife blade inviolate are too little used. This is one of the things that will make the kitchen a more proper tool chest, prolong the life of cutlery and save time in the search for wanted knives on the part of the worker. These are being made in compact, useful fashion to meet the needs of the well ordered kitchen. We can’t stress the housing of cutlery hard enough--and it is a real housing problem. The pot cover rack for those who do not hang up their pots is a great comfort. It is inexpensive and easily installed. With these cover racks you easily identify the cover and it doesn’t get lost in a dark closet, although many folks think quite the contrary and deplore the newer methods of hanging up pots and their covers to the public gaze. The question of serving butter delightfully is taken care of by keeping it in the ice box in a stone crock, and making butter balls with little wooden butter pats. There are also wooden butter prints, which enable one to serve butter in forms with a probable little raised design on its top surface. These come in a flattened butter ball size and also in ¹⁄₂-pound print moulds. The question of wood in the kitchen becomes acute in the handle situation. Brushes, brooms and mops of all kinds have wooden handles, and the handle makes for comfort and comfort for efficiency. Therefore it is not out of place here to give a few suggestions as to what a handle ought to be: 1. Smooth--no splinters--hard non-porous. 2. Easily held in hand (if on scrubbing brush, sink brush, etc.). 3. Long enough to do the work (if on wall or ceiling or radiator brush). 4. Set firmly in its socket and easily set in (if on mop, wall brush, etc.). 5. Non-snapping, not brittle (if on a wall duster). 6. Enameled to resist heat and water. The mallet and the potato masher are heavy tools and quite necessary. The former is usually of hickory or lignum vitae, the latter of maple. The potato masher’s function is obvious, but the mallet is often needed for cracking a bone, or ice. For fixing lobster and making a chicken go a long way a mallet is quite a little “fixer.” The coffee mill and the sink rack can be as well made of wood as of metal. Yet this does not need to preclude the metal ones for those wanting them. The wooden ones themselves are really more of hardware than of wood.