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...dinner for all resident patients. He & wife sat at the head of the head table with 13 crippled children chosen by lot. For the fifth year Mrs. Eliza Manry, 97, of Lamar County, Ga., supplied a 40-lb. gobbler which required three men to bring it in from the kitchen. Afterwards a tenor rendered "Home on the Range" and on the second chorus the mellow Rooseveltian baritone was heard joining in with the rest of the happy group. Then Trustee Roosevelt made a little speech...
...22¢ per half pint can be made for 9¢. Big milk & cream retailers like Borden and Sheffield Farms snorted last week at the idea that the cream machine will cut into their cream sales. It is merely a gadget, say they, which will be laid to rest on the kitchen shelf after the novelty is worn...
...Bannister, it arrived in the U. S. by way of Canada where it was snapped up by small energetic Club Aluminum Utensil Co. of Chicago. A similar machine is manufactured by National Die Casting Co. to sell at Macy's for $3.94. In boom times Club Aluminum, a kitchen utensil company organized ten years ago by a hillbilly preacher named Burnett, sold $35,000,000 worth of heavy-cast aluminum utensils to nearly 2,000,000 people. Its salesmen went from house to house inviting housewives to give luncheons prepared in Club Aluminum pots and paid for by the company...
...would complain of the difficulty of their work were it not for the humiliating treatment to which they are subjected. Student waiters must not talk to each other at any time after roll-call, whether in kitchen or dining-room. They must never address a word of ordinary conversation to an acquaintance whom they see in the dining-hall, and even a wary glance of recognition is frowned upon. They must stand at strict attention whenever not actually engaged in serving or carrying off dishes. Any departure from the set regulations brings sharp rebuke from the waitress "captains"--grim females...
...Lecky, pursued by some imminent horror, went to ground in the basement of the department store. Gradually, as he heard no sounds of pursuit, he got up enough courage to seek a better hiding place. His first weapons of defense were a kitchen knife, a fire-axe. Literate but not handy, he found his way to the sporting-goods department, got a supply of guns but had to read the instruction book before he could load one. His first shelter he contrived out of a platform of doors placed over an open compartment. Later he fortified a lavatory, provisioned...