"After all, in restaurants food is not cooked just for you, it is prepared and finished or kept hot in hot cupboards or on hot plates. Managing as we now do our hot food is always hot, and the saving in wages, upkeep and food considerable. On Sunday night we have supper with hot soup, and on the other nights I choose such a menu as soup, stewed oxtail with carrot and turnip, potato cake, cold sweet or cheese, celery, etc. Coffee (if we need it) we make in an apparatus in the dining-room.
"Of course, we had to have a labour-saving house, otherwise I could not have done the work with one servant and a nurse."
The writer of this letter uses an electric heater, but in a "gas house" the "Utility" gas ring with hot plate would take its place.
An illustrated booklet and price list of this excellent contrivance may be obtained from the Gas, Light and Coke Company, Horseferry Road, S.W.
PLATE XXXIII
THE ELECTRIC IRON (NEVER BECOMES DIRTY)
(The Brompton and Kensington Accessories)
PLATE XXXIIIa
