THE LADES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2659, 15 November 1909, Page 3

THE LADES’ WORLD.

RICHEST "WIDOW IN THE WORLD

Ry tlio. will of the late Mr E. H. HaiYim.au, tiled lor prebate on. lGth September, the widow of the great railway financier supplants Airs Ruseell Sage as the richest woman in the world, hike Air Sage, Mr Harriman bequeathed.the whole of his vast fortune to his wife. The will was witnessed by Mr Charles A. Peabody, president of the Mutual Life Assurance Company, and Mr C. C. Tegethoff, Mr Harriman’;; private secretary. Every word in it is probably worth a million dollars, the value of the Harriman estate, according to the estimate published in. the New York “Evening Post” on the highest authority, representing a sum of from £15.000,000 to (Jb.0,000,000. Mrs Harriman was Miss Mary Averoll, daughter of Air AY. J. Averell, a hanker, of Rochester. She brought her husband financial aid (states Hie New York correspondent of the ‘Daily Mail’) at a critical moment, when it was of the utmost use to him in his Wallstreet struggles. His marriage, which took place iu 1873, was happy in every wav. It is believed that Air Harriman lert a private document for the guidance of his widow, in which his wishes ior the disposition of his immense estate are set forth. According to one statement he also divided before his death the .sums he wished his sons and other relations to inherit, but this neither Air Peabody nor Air Tegethoff will either confirm or deny. If. as is widely supposed. Airs Harriinan’s legacy exceeds £20,000,000, including the magnificent estate at Arden, she is worth £•1,000.000 more than Airs Sage or Airs Frederick C. Pen field, and more than twice as much as Airs Hetty Green, whose wealth is estimated at £8,000,m

REQUISITES OF A AIODEL PANTRY

A tall row of shelves with a flour bin and tinware cupboard beneath may constitute a fairly convenient pantry in the eye of the carpenter, hut the housewife in her various culinary experiences always finds herself ready to ado a few improvements and devices oi her own planning. A neatly built china closet in the dining-room, a kitchen cabinet next to the stove and a refrigerator will render special pantry conveniences le.-s imperative, but a nicely arranged -pantry is essential to the easy and peaceful working of all one’s domestic machinery. Alost pantries have too many high shelves that are only accessible with a chair or a stepiadder, and while they may come handy for keeping iorbidden fruit from Johnny or AYillie. they are more often a nuisance for their neckbreaking possibilities. The small, blind, closet-like pantry, in which one must study to get. things crowded in right, is quite as objectionable, for it interferes with neatness and order. The average dimensions for a_ model pantry are four by seven ieet. No matter if your pantry open next to a welllighted window, it should have a window of its own. however small, lor ventilation is quite as important as light. Staple groceries and daily market stuff are ant to acquire a mouldy and musty odour in a short time in a pantry that is not properly lighted or ventilated. . It is best to have the pantry window on the north side, however, where the hot rays of the sun cannot penetrate. Tin-, will help to keep it cool and fresh. A pantry that may be described as model lias a tier oi tour sTiori shelves at the narrow end of it, on which are stowed such articles as are kept in boxes, cans or jars, and should always he within handy reach. All the other shelves, extending the length of the pantry and on which china, crockery and other table service are kept, should be closed with glass sliding doors or the ordinary cupboard folding doors. It saves much dusting, rewashing and wiping to keep one’s dishes behind closed doors, protected against dust and vapour damp. A low cupboard for tin and enamel ware, pans and the like should have hooks, nails and racks rather than shelves. Tinware unevenly and loosely piled on the shelves often precipitates in a thunder of clishpans and pieplates whenever the door is opened. An ideally arranged pantry is not without a low drawers about six inches deep, preferably built in on slides immediately under*tlie shelves, so that one need neither stoop nor stretch on tiptoes to got at them. One for cutlery and silver service, one for tablecloths and napkins, another for towels, etc., Avill help your endeavor to have a place for everything and everything in its place. A deeper-and larger drawer built in at the narrow end of the (pantry is handy for keeping such utensils as rolliiny pins, egg-beaters, and potato-mash-ers. The Hour bin need not bold more than fiftv pounds at a time and should •not be'so deep as to necessitate much stooping. ' . If it does not cause too much crow ing a little sink is a splendid addition'. Some modern pantry sinks have a hickory wood flyleaf, opened and extended 'like that” of old sewing machines, which when dropped hack on the sink can lie used a.s a baking hoard. One housekeeper who had an eve for time-saving contrivances had the pantry in the home she had purchased so completely remodelled that barely a vestige of the original open shelf style remained. She did not approve of kitalien cabinets, aiul the china closet in her dining-room was a small panel mirror affair, .suitable only lor exquisite bits of ceramic hot commonly, used as table service. It was necessqry to find a more nppropriate place for her delicate white china dinner set than the long open shelves of her pantry afforded. Ihe idea to have her pantry improved to meet the most imperative needs naturally presented itself. For a reasonable sum she obtained four glass sliding doors and had these fastened against the shelves in-such a wav that they could he moved back and forth on small wheels concealed in grooves. There were two large noui bins in her pantry, only one of winch ,sho used. It was only common sense to nave one removed and to substitute somethin" with drawers in which to keep towels, asbestos, knives, and forks. "finally selected an old, narrow chefionier,'part of which had been damaged and charred in a fire. By having it .sawed down it fitted nicely under the shelve? on a level with the bins, aiicl after the whole woodwork of the pantry was uniformly , stained or painted in a mild shade of ochre, it was hard telling whether the carpenter had not built it himself.