Please see the Transcriber’s Notesat the end of this text.
CHEATING THE JUNK-PILE
Cheating the Junk-Pile
THE PURCHASE AND MAINTENANCE
OF HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENTS
BY
ETHEL R. PEYSER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
RICHARDSON WRIGHT
Editor of “House and Garden Magazine”
Illustrated by drawings by
HARRY RICHARDSON
and by photographs
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 Fifth Avenue
Copyright, 1922,
BY E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY
All Rights Reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Courtesy of Central Oil and Gas Stove Company
BUNGALOW AND PALACE CAN BE FED WITH THE NEWEROIL RANGES WITH PLENTY OF SPACE AND OVENS
To
“HOME AND MOTHER”
The Experience of Both has
Made this Collection Possible
This book cannot go on its way without acknowledgingRichardson Wright, Editor of House and GardenMagazine, at whose request the chapters were written,as the source of it and as the stimulus to the gatheringof the material. I also want to acknowledge the unflaggingservices of Celia Arbeit, his secretary, who atevery point helped in collating the straying text andfurtive photographs.
I must not forget the manufacturers, who have suppliedme with information, illustration, and enthusiasm,and also the several experts who were philanthropicenough to read every chapter (before they came out inHouse and Garden) to eradicate any technical or scientificanachronism that might have lurked therein.To all these and others who have helped I am verygrateful.
E. R. P.
New York City
August 1922
Ignorant buying is the junk-pile’s subsistence.
This book is in no