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AN IDYL OF THE KITCHEN.

In brown holland apron she stood in the kitchen,
Her sleeves were rolled up, and her checks all
aglow;
Her hair was coiled neatly; when i, indiscreetly,
Stood watching while Nancy was kneadir g the
dough.
Now, who could be neater, or brighter: or sweeter,
Or who hum a song so delightfully low,
0r who look so slender, so graceful, so tender,
As Nancy, swuct Nancy, while kneading the
dough?
Bow deftly she pressed it, and squeezed it, caress-
ed it,
And twisted and turned it, now quick and now
slow!
Ah me, but that madness l've paid for in sadness!
‘I'was my heart she was kneading as well as the
dough.
At last when she turned for her pan to the dresser
She :aw me and blushed, and said shyly, “Please
80.
Or my bread I‘ll be spoiling, in spite of my toiling
If you stand there and watch while i‘m kneading
the dough.“
I begged for permission to stay. She‘d not listen:
The sweet little tyrant said “No, sirl no! no!”
Yet when I had vanished on being thus banished,
My heart staid with Nancy, while kneading the
dough.
I’m dreaming, sweet Nancy, and see you in fancy,
Your heart, love, has softened and pitted my woe,
And we, dear, are rich in a dainty wee kitchen
Where Nancy, my Nancy, stands kneading the

dough.
-The Century.

————.—.—.————

BRAINS VS. HOUSEWORK.

I think Ishall have to take some excep-
tions to A. H. J .’s letter on “A House-
keeper’s Dues.” She seems to half im-
ply, as I take it, that a good many short-
comings can be forgiven to the woman of
whom it can be said “ she is a good house-
keeper,” and that it cannbt be expected
she shall know much else. Now “there
is reason to roasting of eggs.” No woman
has any business to for yet that she has a
brain anda heart, as well as hands, nor
ignore what they can do for her. A
woman has a duty to herself as well as to
her house. And I would remind our
readers of the distinction made in Mrs.
Wines’ paper, published in the Household
of February 5th, between house and home.
Many ’a woman keeps an, immaculate
house, who has not an ideathat keeping a
home is a nobler and a dearer duty. And
these women who spend their time and
strength in an eternal struggle with dust
and cobwebs, are generally those who in
their care for the shell of the home,
neglect what is infinitely more essential,
the home spirit.

I have had nine years of practical work

 

in housekeeping, during which time I
did all the work of caring for my house,
and from that experience I am certain
that unless a woman has a family more
numerous than that of John Rogers of
martyr memory, there is no earthly use
of spending all her time in sweeping and
dusting and getting up warm meals.
There were few days except when I had
to cook for a baker’s dozen of threshers,
that I could not find an hour for books,
music or flowers. When I could not find
the time I took it. Perhaps it was arro-
gant. but I assumed that my own physical
and mental welfare was of more impor-
tance than shining up the cookstove 0r
scrubbing the paint off the kitchen floor.
If a woman has a large family, of course
her duties are largely increased by the de-
mands of her children in the way of
food and clothing. But it is a manifest
duty to teach them to be helpful; a duty
to them as well as to herself. Ihave no
patience with the women who give thorn-
selves soul and body to the “Dirt Cru-
sade.” to the exclusion of everything
else. To attune a mind to trivial details
and obstinately keep it there, is to hope—
lessly dwarf it; we must get above the
dustcloth. If a woman was created only
to wage aceaseless warfare against dirt,
it would have been economy in her
Creator not to have troubled her with a
soul.

If a woman will allow herself to give
up everything for the sake of being a
“man Friday” to her husband’s cstab
lishment, she will find every facility for
so doing. There will be plenty to praise
her devotion to the pots and pans, plenty
to contrast her with her neighbor ivho
“sits down in the middle of the forcnoon
to read,” to the disadvantage ofthe. latter.
I do not wish to disparage good house-
keeping; it is essential to the family‘s hap-
piness; I only dcprecatc the idea that it,
and it alone, should absorb a woman's
whole energies. The wife and mother
ought to know more than the details of
housekeeping, to be a companion to her
husband, and a counselor and instructor
to her children. It is agreat thing to

1 know just how much to do andhow much

to leave undone, to temper work with
reason, to plan, and arrange the day‘s
labor to save strength and time, and to
have the resolution to deliberately pass
ever work we might do, but which is on
essential, and take the time thus gained
for self-improvement. We do not find
that the women of whom all one can say
is they are good housekeepers are the

 

“makeweights” in the community, but
those of whom it is said “she his. real
smart woman,” are the ones who are
both good housewives, and by their in-
telligence, strength of character and cul-
ture, exert an influence for good among
their neighbors.

When a woman cannot enjoy a guest’s
visit because she has not pie or cake in
the house, it shows plainly that she is
giving minor considerations the place of
honor in her mind and practice. The
truth is we American women are slaves to
pie and cake. What farmer’s wife would
dare set before a visitor the simple meal
of bread and butter, conserve, and tea
which the English lad y has served to her
on ancestral plate and china' in her draw—
ing room ‘3 We are arrant cowards so far
as our table is concerned; we kill oursel-
ves in the manufacture of cakes and
pastry, because of wins do. Think of.
finishing up a rule of fried cakes at ten
o’clock at night, as [have known women
do!

[shall accuse Am”. J. of striking the
mythical chip from my shoulder when
she quotes and comments on the state-
ment that housework occupies the hands
but leaves the thoughts free; I recognize
it as one of the clauses of my creed. Iad<
mit one must have their brains “’bout
their business” on baking days, but it
does not take all a human intellect to
decide how much of ironing goes toa
shirt. I have memorized more than one
favorite poem while my hands have been
paring potatoes, folding clothes or push-
ing a llatiron “with grace and agility,”
and taken my hands from the dishw‘ater
many a time to jot down a bright thought
or a conclusion in the little blank book,
carried in my pocket on purpose to catch
such stray fish, and my housework did
not suffer. I admit I did not trouble
myself to learn the contents of my re-
ceiptbook, but consulted it whenevcrI
had occasion. Books were few and vell
read and digested, and not a little of the
process of assimilation was; carried on
with my head tied up ina towel, and both
hands atfcctionately embracingtlu; broom -
stick. To this persistent interweaving
of study. reading and reflection, with
mechanical work, I attribute zest for the
one and liking for the other; for though
like most girls, I “hated housework”
when I begun, [learned to take agenuine
pleasure in a neat and well ordered house,
(I always had a weakness for good things
to eat,) and I enjoyed books with a. keen-
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And this is what any woman can do and
hen neat housekeeper too. I do not say
she can thereby attain to the height of cul-
ture, by this union of the two, but she
can keep herself from becoming a mere
automaton to do so much manual labor
daily.

A woman whose mental ambition has
once been stirred, cannot be satisfied
with merely a housekeepers laurels. She
must have more. She wants and will have
a chance to “lounge in an easy chair and
read the truths solved by other minds”
and occasionally do a little thinking on
her own account. And when she has
lounged a little, she will rise and attack
the work with fresh zeal, and perhaps be
heard to repeat Jean Ingelow’s lines:

“Hence we may learn, if we be so inclined,
That life goes best with those who take it best;
That wit can spin from work a golden robe
To queen it in; that who can paint at will
A private picture gallery, should not cry
For shillings that will let him in to look
At some by others painted.“

BEATRIX.

 

THE QUESTION AGAIN.

 

The question submitted by our House-
hold chief for discussion is a many sided
one, yet given certain conditions, only
one answer. and that an aflirmative one,
is possible. Any woman of average intel
ligence, who has a disciplined mind,
habits of industry, and a conscientious
regard for duty's calls, can in a few
months master the details of housekeep-
ing, and make it a success, no matter if
she had no early training or natural like
ing for the work.

This implies, of course, that she must
have opportunities for observation, or the
advice and direction of some one who
understands the business, for like all
trades it wants some practical lessons in
order to achieve success. Theories and
printed rules will sometimes fail the un-
initiated, there will be some little detail
that the well informed will “take it for
granted ” that every one must understand,
that to the tyro will necessarily prove a
stumbling block. A story may illustrate:
Two fishermen who had come to America,
soon decided to go west, take up some
land, and together keep “ bachelorsi hall”
while clearing up a homestead. Totally
unused to the culinary art, they were
anxious to improve all opportunities for
instruction, and were much interested in
some twisted doughnuts that were served
at a house where they had stayed over
night, and they asked the lady for direc-
tions for making them and she very kind-
‘ly gave the full formula. Soon after they
had taken possession of their new home
they together attempted to produce the
article which had so much pleased the
palate. With great care the written direc-
tions were followed, but one point was
‘wantin g. The strips were cut,dropped into
the smoking lard, watched by the earnest
eyes of both, but all was not right, and
Sandy burst out with, “I say Jimmy,
why don’t the little beggars twisht?" It
It had'been taken for granted they would
‘know they must “ twisht ” the dough.

This would not spoil the cooking, but
it disappointed them, and cast a doubt on
the good faith of their informant, for

 

 

they'had “followed directions.” As small
a mistake in some other connection,
might spoil the cookery.

The case seems to turn more on the
question whether a woman who is not
trained to housework when young, will
with good will, earnestly and faithfully
take it up in later years, or whether she
will consider it only a disagreeable neces-
sity, to be evaded as much as possible; a
burden to be endured under protest, and
working with such a spirit make herself
and all around miserable, and make a
miserable failure of her housekeeping
also. As a rule, girls, rich or poor, can be
taught the cardinal principles of house-
keeping in youth, without interfering
with other duties, and such knowledge

will never do harm, if not used.

A. L'. L.
GBEENFIELD, March 15th.

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A WOMAN ’S TEARS.

 

“Maybelle” quotes an item from the
FARMER, “ Woman’s tears cost little and
avail much,” thinks the reverse is true,
and wonders why husbands are so indif-
ferent to their wives’ tears. Well, in a
wet time, you know, when showers are
frequent, we carry our umbrellas and ex‘
pect to get sprinkled. I suppose the hus-
bands of these “Job Trotter” style of
women get so accustomed to dampness
and dumps that they don’t know what it
is to have the house dry and cheerful. A
woman who takes refuge in tears and a
pocket handkerchief on every slight pro-
vocation need not expect her husband to
pay much attention to her; the means of
arousing his sympathy,resorted to too fre-
quently, lose their potency. The husband
whom Maybelle instances as saying his
wife’s tears fell “as easy as rain and
amounted to about as much,” had evi-
dently had the game played on him t0u
many times. ‘ That wife should try some
other scheme.

Seriously, a wife has a very efficient
weapon in her tears if she knows how to
manage. She must remember that a
woman, I don’t care how pretty she is, is
perfectly hideous when she cries. Her
nose gets red and swollen, her eyes ditto,
complexion inflamed, she is anything but
a picture for a “ beauty-loving eye ” She
should not indulge in any such extrava-
gant demonstrations. The diplomatic
wife who proposes her tears shall “ avail
much,” never lets one fall. There is a
good deal of poetry about pearly tears
adown beauty’s cheek, butit is all bosh;
in real life they have a great tendency to
travel by way of the nose, which rather
destroys the poetic illusion. The woman
who understands her business widens her
eyes, as if surprised that her husband can
be so unjust or unkind to her, then lets
them slowly suffuse with tears, being
careful not to overdo the matter lest she
make her celestial nose strawberry color.
Then she giVes him an appealing, grieved
look, makes as if she was going to say
something but don’t; then turns aside her
face to conceal her emotion, or perhaps
dabs gracefully at her eyes if she happens
to have a pretty handkerchief at hand.
If this does not “break him all up ” he

 

has a heart harder than the nether mill-
stone, and a regular thunder gust of tears
and reproaches won't stir his compassion.
In ninelynine cases out of a hundred
this treatment proves effectual, unless
the hammer-and-tongs process has been
worked on him till he is hydropathie by
nature.

Most men, being hard-headed and not
lacbrymose themselves, have a certain
contempt for emotional women. They
will concede the point at the time to keep
peace in the family, but every such con-
cession is dearly won; it is at the price of
the wife’s influence. Tears, after the
fashion I have described, should be the
last resort, only to be used in cases of
necessity and urgency. There is always
danger in substituting emotional power
for reason. It is an attribute essentially
feminine to weep readily; it is not
womanly in that stronger and higher sense
in which we are coming to use the word.

Some of these husbands who according
to Maybelle, seem to delight in provoking
their wives to tears-might be surprised
by a change of programme on the part of
the latter. Let the unkind words be re—
ceived as if they were jestingly said, and
a cheerful reply returned; or seek re fugo
in quiet dignity which returns no reply;
is in fact as if it bears not. Then turn
the tables by some wifely courtesy or
kindness, and see if there is not first an
astonished, then an ashamed man. It is
a great thing to have tact, and nowhere is
it more useful than in one’s marital rela-
tions. A woman with tact can manage
her husband with such finesse that he
will never know what is the matter with
him as he revolves around the orbit of

her little finger. Bannnmu.
Dnrnorr, March 17th.
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BREAD-MAKING.

 

To raise the fermentation, I would ads
vise the use of yeast cakes in preference
to home made yeast. I am quite sure I
could detect the disagreeable “ hop taste,”
if ever so small a. quantity of the latter
was used. I have used a dozen difierent
varieties, in as many years, with equally
good results. At present am using Strat-
ton’s; they are excellent.

The bread should be treated similar to
salt-rising, the prime essential being
warmth without scalding; knead it fifteen
or twenty minutes. If I bake more than
twenty loaves in a week (as I do through
part of the year), my conscience tells me
I shall not be required to give it more
than one mixing, that is, mold and form
into loaves at one and the same operation;
then it is superior to bread made by any
other method. The biscuits that are
made by adding melted butter and asmall
quantity of white sugar to a part of the
sponge, are too good to describe,‘but are
much sought for at donations, pic-nics,
etc.

Please may I speak to the girls, those of
whom the fond mothers expect so much?
I wish to tell them if they have a great
many dishes to wash, to provide them-
selves with mosquito-netting for dish
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also use the metal rings to clean ironware.
I can sympathize with the girls, for hands
will ache, and grow large and rough
from steady application at this “ soul-
inspiring ” business. I endorse all A. H_
J. says; will remark that as a rule, wo-
men are too exacting of their sister house~
keepers. My troubles often remind me
of those of a German florist, as he related
them to a friend and myself many years
ago. He said: “ I have so much drouble
mit de ladies ven dey come to buy mine
rose; dcy vants him hardy, dey vants
him doubles, dey vants him moondly, dey
‘vants him fragrand, dey vants him nice
gouler, dey vants him ebery dings in one
rose. I hopes I am not vat you calls von
uncallant man, but I have somedimes to
say to the ladies, ‘ Madame, I never often
sees de ladies dat vas beautiful, dat vas
rich, dat vas good temper, dat vas youngs,
dat vas clever, dat vas perfection in one
ladies. I see her much not!’ "

I am hopeful that Beatrix will “sum
up the question" after it has been duly

discussed. E. s. B.
Bmonron, March 15th.
¢—————o—.—o—————

MOLLIE MOONSHINE’S VIEWS.

This morning, while striving to bring
order from the chaos of papers upon the
table in the sitting-room, my eye rested,
by chance, upon the article by F. E. W.,
in the Household of March 4th.

Notwithstanding the fact that my work
was not finished, down I sat and read it
to the end. And. when, half an hour
later, I vigorously gave my kitchen stove
an extra polish, and hung the broom and
duster in their respective places, with a
self-satisfied ejaculation of—“There! my
work is done and it is only half-past
eight!” I felt that the five minutes
wasted (i) in reading, had not been idly
spent, for as I worked my thoughts were
busy also, and I am sure they ran in dif-
ferent and perhaps more profitable chan-
nels than they would have done, had I
not stopped my work to read this article.
I often find it highly beneficial to pick up
a book or paper and read five in ten min-
utes after breakfast, before beginning the
day’s work. Right here let me say the
above plan was suggested to me some time
ago by my husband, who does not believe
in a woman’s working until she is all tired
out before she sits down to read. Try my
method, you who can. Choose well your
reading and it will turn the current of
your thoughts; you will work better for
it and feel refreshed the whole day.

You all see by this time, that I am ex-
pressing difierent views from most “good
housekeepers.” Nevertheless, I, too, was
a “ schoolma'am,” decidedly inexpe-
rienced in housekeeping matters, but able
and apt to learn, and I flatter myself that
I have, in a measure, succeeded. Nearly
ten years of my life were passed in the
school-room, in the capacity of teacher.
Human nature in all its various phases
Was there presented for my moral and
persuasive powers and my patience to
Work upon and do justice to by clearing
«Way the cobwebs of ignorance and im-
planting seeds of knowledge which might

like deep root. and aid in forming good

 

and wise men and women in after years.
I tried then as now to do my work faith-
fully and well.

My own training for a teacher’s work
and the principal knowledge of books I
possess, I received at the hands of
true and tried men and women in one of
the Empire State’s best Normal schools.

My husband is not a farmer at present,
although he is “one of the boys,” of the
Michigan Agricultural College, and con-
sequently has everything pertaining to
farming truly at heart, and, moreover,
expects before the present year rolls
away, to become the happy occupant of
as fine a farm as any of which Northern
Michigan can boast. Then I shall be a
farmer’s wife, and expect I shall often
trouble the Household for information,
or bore its readers by my egotistical refer-
ence to my “ strorn’ary ’cess ” in butter-
making, fowl raising and the like. And
now, as my sixteen months’ old boy is
asking for a “ p’int” to be put on the pencil
with which he is playing, I will sign my
old nom-de-plume, which may not be
strange to some of the Household readers,
though never before seen in its columns.

Editor, please tell me if I may come
again. MOLLIE Moossumn.

Dnraorr, March 14th, 1884.

[Yes indeed, Mollie, come again and
come often. We shall hope to hear of
your success in the new home, and extend
our best wishes that the change may be a
pleasant 0ne.—HOUSEHOLD En.]

 

INSECTS INJURIOUS TO HOUSE
PLANTS.

 

The reason given by florists for the
presence of white worms in flower pots,
so far as I have ascertained, is overwater-
ing. Ihave from my own observation
concluded to add to that, the use of un-
decayed barnyard soil, which contains
the germs of the pests mentioned. I have
seen clouds of flies in the air over and
around the yard in a warm afternoon
when the ground was wet, and they were
precisely like, and I think identical with
those. As they evidently feed upon the
nutrition of the soil and not the plants,
they are not so much to be dreaded as any
of the other enemies of. plant life, which
we are often forced to combat. Lime
water is most frequently recommended,
but I prefer soot to that, and a few drops
of carbolic acid in a quart of warm water
to either, to exterminate the worms; and
pyrethum powder fixes the flies instantly.
If we desire plants for the house we wish
them thrifty and ornamental, or we would
rather have none, and to induce agood
growth we must study and meet their
requirements, which are simple enough,
and altogether reasonable. A good mix-
ture of leaf mould or decayed sod with
sand, to porous and rich garden soil, all
mixed and sifted together. is the bestI
know of for any plant. and occasionally
a spoonful of ammonia is added to the
water used to water them: and once a
week enough of liquid fertilizer from the
cowstable, to darken the water, will in-
sure health and growth. It is best when
purchasing, or exchanging plants to ex-
amine closely, that there should not with

  

the plants come more than is bargained
for, in the shape of Aphis, Thrips, Red
Spider (Ac/true tell/trim) scab insect
(Cb/felts), mealy bugr (00¢er Adonidurn),
which feed upon the very life of plants,
and unless quickly cxterminsted are a
sure destruction. Ii‘umigrttiou with
tobacco is the common rem~dy for Green
l Fly, or a weak tea made by steepingitand
washing them with that, and rinsing- in
clear water. Pyrcthrum powder will cf«
fectuallyridthe plants of them if used
in the way recommended to use tobacco
fumes; place the plant by iLSelf or a. num-
ber unvler a box or tub, and with an
atomizer, or if one is not at hand, any
tube which you can use, blow the air
full of the powder around the plants, and
close for an hour or so; rinse well
with tepid water before returning to the
shelf. None but tepid water should be
used for plants at any time, either for
washing, sprinkling or watering, as cold
water, like cold draughts, is detrimental;
and water only when the plants are dry;
plants are more easily injured by too
much water at the roots than too little.
while the leaves are syringed or sprinkled
too infrequently, nor the necessary care
taken to protect them from dust, which
is very important, as cleanliness pro-
motes the health of plants, and prevents
the multiplying of insects. Thrips dislike
tobacco or insect powder, so may be
doctored as recommended for Green Fly,
while for scab insect there is nothing
better than a few drops of carbolic-acid in
an ounce of sweet oil with which to
thoroughly sponge the plant. ‘1 While we
hOpe to never make the acquaintance of
the Red Spider, we feel sure of drowning
him easily; be is no hydropath and yields
quickly to the “water cure.” The best in-
surance against the depredations of plant
enemies, are healthy condition of growth,
rendered by a plenty of air, (not cold
draughts) light, atmospheric warmth and
moisture, good porous soil, gmoderate
watering with tepid water, freedom from
dust and extremes of temperature; then if
these most unwelcome visitants should in-
trude, they must most emphatically “take
something. Aurora’s WIFE.
anrou, March 18th.
——o—.—.———

AN EXCLUSIVE MEMBER SPEAKS

 

I knock at the door of the Household.
and I give you warning that if you open
it and let me in, the serenity of tho
Household circle is apt to be marred.

When we had one and a half columns
allowed us for a Household and two-thirds
of that was travels we “grinned and bore
it,” but Welcomed the first little paper
that we received where we had a House.
hold exclusively our own. But there was
gnashing of teeth when the last number
cime, and mortgage sales, chromo cards
and farm law stared us in the face. Let
us keep the paper small enough so there
will be nothing in it, but what every
woman will feel makes that one paper in—
valuable and it “ must be saved."

I admire the “hints ” we have been
having in the last numbers, and will give
some in return.

 

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made of gray carpet warp, crocheted
macrame style, with bright ribbons
woven in. Unbleached carpet warp
crocheted in thick and thin squares, with
fringe on the front and ends, makes dur-
able eouch spreads.

Bright hit or miss carpet rags knit gar—
ter stitch can be sewed into very pret
rugs

I wonder how many there are who do
not spend time enough on unnecessary
ironing every week to write us some of
their experience in housekeeping. I am
a young housekeeper myself, and I would
like to have some one tell me how to
make hop yeast bread, and have it good
every time; sometimes mine is good and
sometimes it is not, andltry the same
every time. I believe with Daisy there
are too many who are willing to “take
something," but if it is to be poor bread,
there is one who would beg to be excused,
and that is Tom's WIFE.

KALAMAZOO, Mich.

[The Household Editor recommends a
trial of E. S. B.’s recipe for breadmaking,
published in the Household of Feb. 18th.
We have eaten bread and biscuit made by
that method, and both are delicious.
Several ladies have already reported their
success with it. Hon. Wm. Ball reports
Vermonthousekeepers give it warm com-
mendation. We will hear from some of
our hop yeast bread makers, however, if
they will kindly favor us with their
methods; and hope “Tom’s Wife” will
keep the Household well stirred up.]

 

Contributed Recipes.

 

GRAHAM Commas—One cupof sour cream;
_ one and onehalf cups of sugar; one-half tea-
‘ spoonful soda; mix soft, do not roll too thin.
GRAHAM Grams—Two cups sour milk; two
‘ eggs; two tablespoonfuls sugar; one table-
-spoonfuI lard; four cu ps flour without eggs,
and less with eggs ; one teaspoonful soda; pinch
of salt.

LEMON Pun-Grate the rind from one lemon
and squeeze out the juice; stir in one table-
spoonful of flour to a smooth paste; add one
cup boiling water, one cup sugar, pinch of salt,
butter the size of a walnut, the yolks of three
eggs, well beaten, saving the whites for frost-
ing. For one pic.

Warm CAKE—The whites of six eggs; one
cup sugar; one-half cup of butter; one-half
cup sweet milk; one and one-half cups of sifted
flour; one tablespoonful of corn starch;three
teaSpoonfuIs of baking powder. Stir the sugar
and butter to a cream,then add the corn starch
well dissolved in the milk. then flour and bak-
ing powder, well mixed; last of all the beaten
eggs. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. S. M.

Prr'rsnuno, March 25th.

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

VICTOR CHURN'

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With same quality and
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Easy to clean, light work-
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