The mouse trap of wood used once and then to be thrown out is rather a pleasanter idea than using the same impregnated trap over and over again. These are cheap and ready to use at any time. The wooden salad set, knife, spoon, fork, are rather epicurean but seem to be passing out of fashion. Tables of wood are so common that they need little description, yet a few suggestions may be of real value. The table with the stove is all important in the kitchen. It is so valuable, indeed, that it has been lately combined with the dish-washer and the effete refrigerator in order to make it possible in limited spaces to install these quite noble but less royal things. Tersely said, the table must be large enough for the work to be done, steady on its legs, simple in construction and easily kept clean and wholly sanitary. If possible metal capped legs will prevent the legs becoming unlevel by swelling when the floor is washed or shifting through general use. The table top would easily take a whole story; the main requisite is that it be hard, easily cleaned and scraped--be it of wood, composition, marble, metal or of the porcelain family. Kitchen tables 3′ to 7′ long, with and without shelves beneath and also with or without closets and drawers below. The wooden top of maple is most satisfactory and probably, of all the table tops, most used. Yet for those that can afford the wooden table with marble top and German silver trimmings, nothing could be more perfect even though the price soars. Finally, if there be benefit in this article take from it suggestions for the wooden wedding gift. Few people think of the kitchen as a realm for gifts. In our experience presents of culinary use have been a boon to many householders, especially at the wooden wedding period. CHAPTER XVIII GLASS WEAR Glass ware is now no longer for ornament alone, but for cooking uses as well. The only way to tell if you have a good piece of glass or not is to compare it to other pieces for color and sound. If it sounds clear and bell-like, it is pretty sure to be a good bit of glass. But don’t strike it if it happens to be in a groove or it will, of course, shatter it, as the pieces will have no room to vibrate and will break the bounds. ANNEALING Annealing is the process brought to such a perfection to-day that glass can be made almost shell proof. In fact glass for automobile windows was and is being made that when it is struck will not shatter but will simply crack or craze. This process is one of careful heating and cooling many times repeated. It makes the glass more elastic so that the particles are in more of a state of equilibrium and can be struck without danger of breaking. MANUFACTURE