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IED EGGS Will Y NOT CERTIFIED BEAIA&S? Culinary Implements Can Keep No Secrets from Miss Mildred MaddocRs ?In the Testing Department of "Good Housekeeping9 Magazine She Bares the Sou! of the Chilliest Ice Box and aPierces the Reserve of the Darkest Oven. Misa MaddocK*. sees that there are no fragile ironir.t* boards for heavy pieces. By Et tie Bur well Boy kin HOW Ion?; should an eggbeater take to beat an e._*g. if it < - lent, and a ron, if it is a good one. should take how long 1 ["her? robably only one woman in New York who can answer these questions to a second's accuracy. She i Mildred Mad who is in charge of the testing department of Good Housekeepii sntute. When she ans furthermore the ition aa to why some eggbeaters .re not good even though they look "j e: :e. ;ly B] lendid," and "? .hould w( . .inds, and you have a glimpse into the se? ret intricacies of the household; you feel thrilled over the idea of housekeeping If you _.*?. ? i -?<*pcr, ? "u immediately perceive it to be _n an . an apart? ment at once, ii >- in the pro i you want to whisk everything ? .helves _?nd start over. This time th< some ne 1 kit \*.t:\ SI ? '?' bustnesi ii to mal ? the t ,i "Of cours? ? -!iere is n most I .,t tu buy when they need something new, no way except t ask the dealer what is the latest thing, ar ? r dealer i?. neither the manager of a horr nor an unbiassed critic. There haven't been ar ?-tandards for household machinery as thei have been for every other kind. The school teach splendid theories, but nothing as t ?pet equipment. Oh, I know the ped? ue will rise In horror at this, and saj Why, we Use the moat- op-to date appliames But, do you know. I recently went to an ex liibit of a lar?;e household science department snd the majority of the articles shown will 1 rule weie ones that the institute had passe< unfavoralle judgment upon, which means the; had been found unsuited for practical house hold use. "It isn't always the manufacturer's fault er, when he gets out some Dbor-savinf. device which causes more trouble than it save? labor, for he is no more a housekeeper that: (he dealer, and, besides, he has no way ol getting in close touch with the housewives Now you see why the institute grew, a place where standards of household utensils and implements can be established, and both user and maker saved blunders, if they co-operate " Miss Maddocks then explains that the in tit'Jte is a practical laboratory for testing household apparatus, maintained for the pur? pose of enabling readers of "Good House? keeping" magazine to operate more efficient households, by providing a safe and certain buying guide. No goods are approved which do not score at least seventy-five in a test as to construction, efficiency of design and opera? tion, initial cost and operating cost. TESTING THE OVEN. If you should happen to drop in unexpected ly some afternoon at the institute, on Twenty third Street, you will nnd Miss Maddocks the midst of one of these tests upon icrat new product of the manufacturer's in? genuity. "You may come in," she says smil? ingly. "I am just baking some bread to find OUI if the oven of this new range is up to standard." "Are you really and truly baking bread?in I.TC-" "Surely. How else could we know whether '?he range would bake good bread, however promising it might appear? We subject any anee to the same kind of usage a house? keeper would give it?involved engineering test? lit not sufficient, bot instance, the electrical engineer might pass on the case of ? r:ation of hand machines intended for use ? woman with much less muscle. Here is ahing machine now, which seemed to be ? ss until I s..t down and tried using it, when I discovered immediately that it was too Uld would therefoie strain the back so ? h that t could hardly be called a help." One of the most minute investigations and one of the most impressive to one who has always thought there wasn't much difference among refrigerators-only differences of size fnt! appearance?is that made to establish re frigerating efficiency. Hiving proved satisfact rry as to sanitary construction, the refrigerator is iced and kept iced to crip.city for a 100 hour test, with a preliminary twelve hours to insure the first chilling. During this test temperature readings are taken every hour and records made of the temperature of the room and the temper iture four.! in each food .ompartment. Then it is . simple matter for Miss Maddocks?she, being a mathematical virtuoso?to compute the .mount of ice re quired to reduce the temperature in one cubic inch of a food compartment one degree Fahrenheit. And it is reckoned up to the smallest fraction. "We have had some notable quarrels with certain manufacturers over that point." says Miss Maddocks, as though she rather enjoyed it. then adds: "They said we didn't know any? thing, anyway, but I think they will be left behind soon with their refrigerator." In another moment she was pointing out quickly some defect here or some blunder there. It is overwhelming, this woman's in timate understanding of the various funda mental operations which keep the household progressing without friction. "How can you tell all these things?" one just has to ask. ENJOYS INVESTIGATIONS. * Miss Maddocks's tace lights up with an amused smile, "That's easy enough, after you've practised h ,i while?JO* COWS to see light away if there's mything wroni^. And it's v() Inter? tin ' I have ? surprise party almos' every day s rnthing new comes in? and I Can hardly wait to investigate. Just let me show you this new gas and tireless cooker. It haa the most wonderful .lock attachment that aro ka intomaticslly like a safe, and turns ou' t a I i at a < attain time, but then it has glaril I WS disappointed. A glance will show you its impracticability." Oh, the sadness upon such occasions of he? lft o ut -uler' A glance betrayed no ap t?on. "Wtiy. yon - ee. the main gas pipe here in front is unprotected, so that in moving it might eaaily be pushed in a bit and thus throw the burners out of line; and another fault is tii.it the entire burner docs not light immediately after a natch is applied." DAYS OF THF. HANGE ARE OVER. Our grandmothers used stoves; then came the day of the range, which day is almost past, for there will soo. be just cookers?a develop? ment of the fire!? s cooker. There is the gas and fireless cooker, or the electric and fireless cooker, which means you may thoroughly heat your oven with either gas or electricity, then complete the cooking without fuel. This meth? od is easier am! cheaper and, according to Miss Maddocks. the only way to bake to a brown without leaving the interior of the substance soggy or poorly done. The added length of time necessary for cooking is hard? ly appreciable. One goes back with regret to the thought of the automatic cooker which couldn't be ap? proved. "Couldn't the manufacturers prevent such mistakes by consulting your standards first, or do they have that privilege?" WHO WANTS TO FISH FOR EGGS? "Indeed they do. and many are taking ad? vantage of our suggestions before attempting to place their gooda upon the market. Some have _. r::_ti with us for two years before finally g-'tirn; ?heir invention just right. Of course, we had to establish ourselves first be? fore we had the ?.onfidence of the producer, but it is no exaggeration to say that at the present time manufacturera derive immense benefit from our laboratory. We are not only d to make criticisms, but to recommend im? provements as well. Recently a man came up with the idea of heating by means of an elec? tric current coming into direct contact with the ?water, rather than a metal. It is true that water when poured into bis cup would boil quickly, but the unfortunate part of this truth She frics egg beaters to learn if they are good, bad and indi/lerent. was that the water was decomposed in the process, and became a bl.ck, tlaky substance. When the man said you cculd boil eggs in this simple way at the breakfast table he did not realize that no woman would wish to fish eggs for her family out of that dark and in? salubrious looking mixture. "We suggested that he arrange an upper story to his cup?double boiler effect?then he will have won with us and the housekeepers also." A visit to Miss Maddocks's household mu? seum is in one respect, at least, like viewing a display of bridal presents. One passes among the many objects, handling them and wonder? ing what the manufacturer could possibly have had in mind when he constructed this or that baffling little device. After being told that a certain complicated little article is a lemon squeezer, it seems best to banish curi? osity?only. "What do you consider the most startling contrivance that has been put on the market lately?" SATISFACTION OR MONEY PACK. Miss Maddocks hesitated for a moment, and then, looking up, said enthusiastically : "T should prefer to using the word happiest rather than the most startling; then I should say the glass cooking utensils. They have been tested from every standpoint and have proved absolutely successful. Information about them was given to the public recently through The Tribune." "What is the chief advantage of the glass? ware?" "i\o earthenware pie pan," explained Miss Mrddocks, "and that is the only other kind which makes good paltry, is sanitary after a time The glass pan has the virtue of the earthenware, and the bottom never scales off. Then there is the aesthetic value, the advantage that accrues in using anything in the kitchen which is pleasing to the eye." "You guarantee everything you approve?" "With the broadest guarantee of satisfaction than can be given, and do'ibly, since both mag? azine and manufacturer support it. We have very few cases where it is necessary to make s cash refund, but we do it most cheerfully. "?* ?'? ? ? ?'mam. i-emmms She gives the gas burner an examin? ation in efficiency. Not like the hosiery dealer who. when I eta tomer returned a pair of guamueed stock inga, said: "Would you bring these back fora litt'e hole like that'' There are no littl?Mb or loopholes in our guarantee. To prow it, let me tell you of a washing machine which was sent back to us. We investigated and fooid that the woman had purchased it from I dealer who had no connection with the nuns factoring firm lut he had obtained a laa tu chinea of an early and inefficient model ifd sold them under false pretences. And, li? the ugh we have i'.-. ? ! ? ur readeri to communicate dire the manufact? urers, we did not allow thia ??coman to remain t ?tied, but paid her the cost of the ma? chine." So the Good rlouaekee ng Ir?s?itute ii not one of those "too-good-to-! e true" things, but an honorable (one is tempted to say luper ? organization with a capable woman in charge, srhii ig to homemaken the easiest road. ?VE YOUR CHILD A PLACE ME CAM CALL HIS OWM A ?Ser.se of Responsibility Will Spring into Feirg, Acccti j r _ 'cr? Usually, by a S-icden end Desirable Enthusiasm for Orderliness. --?or?;?-.i tute . . developed fr??iii the assumption that people just Krow up ?rithoul ?ver being children. By SIDONIE MATZNER GRUF.NBERG. Df the present t.'ay ser: ? t\ t | ! from the i ? ? eople just grow up without rvri in"; children. Certainly verv few homes luve ,u:v place tl I COUld call his own. There may he a bed for him to sleep in .?* *.* ,;'? i, am! we sometimes see .1 chair i?: I roOflB, but there are com? paratively few homes in which there that 1- - all) s foi - M, or tor the children. Ths room i:,, of 1 coi se. the ideal condition. Hut most of 1. room, we feel th.tt there is nothing mo: - squence, most i f no place at alb When everything si oui 'be 'muse is in I pia.e It is \ Itsd with reference to ''?fie conver icnte of the grown-ups. "Order" means cnient that is most convenient or least disturbing. It is therefore hard for .- M :.? realize that our very order is a aerioua Obatade to the child's acquiring or? derly habita, The order that we maintain is quite arbitrary, from the child's point of view, foi everything is disposed according to our adult habits, our size, our uses, and not the child's. To make the child acquit e the habit of bavin. I place for everything and ot keeping everything in its place, we must first of all make sure that everything with which the child has to do has a place that is quite accessible to him. One of The frequent questions that mothers In March of counsel bring is "How can I teach hild To be orderly?" The mother who is so much concerned about orderliness would hard? ly lack orderly habits herself, but she may lack habits that fit the needs of the child in this par? ticular. The first thing necessary is to realize that the child is not "by nature" orderly, in the sense in which a trained adult is orderly. We forget the long, hard struggle through which we attained to our present state, and expect of the child what is hardly possible for the child to give. When we are ready to begin with the child as we find him we must first of all provide n place that is quite accessible to him for each of the various things that he uses 4 onetontly. ? hi- towel and his toothbrush are al? ways on their respective hooks goes without Bttl the same principle applies to all the thing! for which he has frequent use and for the care of which we wish to hold him ?isihle. There should be a place for his toys, and the place should be unoccupied by the belongings of others when it is time for the ?hild to put his toys away after h-s play. There should be a place for the coat or the at, and one that can be reached with on* the help of a chair or an adult. It is only when these {daces are provided that we hav? ?he nght to demand of the child that he ob. serve the order prescribed for him. Most children are easily distracted, and it is so easy to "forget" that the clothes are to be hung up immediately upon coming into the bouse, and that the blocks are to be put away before another toy is taken up. In difficult cases it is best to concentrate on one habit at a time, instead of trying to teach a general principle of orderliness. Thus, until a child has learned to put the toys away, it would be well to overlook all the other desirable habits. Then we might take up the -are of the street clothes, and so on. Aa the child becomes older and new kinds of things come to be bandied, the earlier habits will not be auto? matically transferred to the new needs. But on the basis of the earlier experience it be? comes possible for the child to understand what we mean by order, or by having every? thing in its place, and then it should be suffi? cient to remind him of the rule, or of the con? venience of being .ble to get what is wanted with thcleast loss of time. Where there ??re not enough closets to per? mit the allotment of an inclosed space to each child, a very serviceable arrangement is to be found in a packing case with a number of shelves in it. This my be papered or stained on the outside, and closed off with a curtain of checked gingh.im or other suitable ma? terial. The interior of this cupboard should be sacred, -and no one should enter it without the child's consent. In this way he may be held responsible for whatever he puts away. And in this way lie may also learn to respect the exclusive possessions of others. The child should have his own place not only for the putting away of his treasures. He ahould also have a place that may be his, when necessary, for undisturbed work, or play or study. It is hardly fair to expect a child to do his studying, or even his reading, in the midst of the conversation and laughter? "How can 1 teach my child to be orderly?" Until ht* h.?s learned t.. put the toys away it ?would be .v 11 to overlook the oth?* desirable* habits. or perh ipa the quarrels-of others. As a KV* rate room is in most homes out o*. the q' f, n, wen :ist use our ingenuity in *rt,B' the programme of the home in a way will give the child his own place, at lealt a specified time. It is possible son|e,Un* arrange a screen that wil give a ?hild a,??*? of seclusion and mastery over a 1^'?"^ the earth, if only for an hour. This ia anm while, since it is through his alternate aa^FJ enccs wi?h society and solitude that the"? ? comes to a consciousness of his own p the world. ^* His own hook for his hat. his own IJJ for his books, his own corner for his wort to be looked upon as legitimate claim? o child upon his share of the world? JJJ They are also very effective means tQt ing the child orderliness, responsibility, of property and his relation to ptoolt things.