Your grocer will smile when you tell him your plan for his discarded candy pail. But you can accept his implied skepticism with equanimity, knowing that "he laughs best who laughs last."

This pail may be lined in such a way as to have a deep roomy compartment for a number of vessels. It may one day carry coffee, beans, escal-loped dishes and other hot foods to church suppers or to skating or boating parties. Another day it will keep cold things cold for you, and carry butter, ice cream, salads, fruits, and sandwiches on automobile trips, or to picnics and other outings.

Insulated Pail.

A Suggestion

For cooking a dinner in one kettle all at one time: Roast beef in jar resting upon a wire frame, and surrounded by potatoes. Es-calloped tomatoes in the deep pan and fish in the shallow pan at the top. Heat each dish and its contents alone, before placing in the cooker kettle. Boiling water should reach two-thirds the height of the meat jar. Then cook all over the flame a few minutes before consigning them to the box. This combination may safely remain in the cooker from four to six hours. In any case the potatoes should be dried over a flame before serving.

Another plan: Let the jar contain a pudding and be surrounded by beets, or turnips or cabbage. Place escalloped potatoes in the deep pan, and lamb or pork chops in the shallow pan. This combination may safely remain in the cooker eight or ten hours.