the state and Federal aid, will endure for years. On this particular stretch of highway it anticipates no further trouble. For it was built of the stoutest road material known to man to-day. It has followed government and state specifications and the experts of the New Hampshire highway department have supervised every detail of the construction of its thoroughfare. The road is as near perfect as it is possible to make it.

Drainage and grade problems have worked out according to the best results of the experiments of years in many other communities throughout the land. Much money has been spent but it is felt that an investment has been made that will pay commensurate dividends, not directly but indirectly through the lack of maintenance required to keep its new road in topnotch form.

Winslow & Cummings of Nashua were awarded the contract in August, 1922, for the first stretch of concrete road built in Londonderry. The work of placing the concrete was begun in September of that year and by early December the strip was open to traffic. This year an additional strip has been completed, both being built with a center joint, half the road being finished at a time.

This method of construction has several advantages. It allows for more

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continuous traffic during construction than any other means. The center joint marks the two sides of road into paths from traffic either way. All slabs are from fifty to sixty feet in length and are reinforced with half inch deformed steel rods to give them "backbone," to render them invulnerable to the weightiest of future heavy truck traffic for which it is designed. The joints are all securely doweled with steel bars that will prevent any vertical movement and thereby eliminate the slightest surface irregularity.

Since the time when the Roman empire constructed its imperishable military highways which have defied the ravages of time and remain as monuments to the truth of the principle that the best is always the cheapest, forward looking men have believed in building for all time. During the administration of one of New Hampshire's recent governors the state was bonded for one million dollars which was expended on our highways. It is claimed by some, although it is doubtless more or less exaggerated, that more of this money has already gone up in dust. Possibly the more expensive type of road construction which has been used on the Londonderry turnpike may be a solution of one of our state's most baffling problems -our highway maintenance.

VERY homemaker ought to know

how to plan a kitchen intelligently -to plan it so that it will measure up to a standard embodying the general essentials. She should not wait to make these plans until the kitchen has been built; for then with structural conditions fixed, the possbilities are often very limited.

However, many women must work in kitchens which they have had no opportunity to plan, and must develop the arrangement of equipment so as to save

themselves time, energy, and inconvenience.

Three essential operations are carried on in the kitchen-the preparation, the cooking, and the cleaning-up. These call for three work centers-food center, heat center, and water center-and the table, stove, and sink are the necessary pieces of equipment. These should be so arranged in relation to each other that human mileage may be saved and only a minimum amount of energy expended.

The Home Demonstration Agents of the Extension Service of New Hampshire have waged quite successfully this year a campaign for better arranged kitchens. The drawings below are of a real kitchen in New Hampshire-one showing the old arrangement and the other the new.

In the first, these inconveniences were found: The pump was on the east side, and the sink on the west side. The handle of the pump was on the left side (and the woman was right-handed). The sink was too low. The pantry had no window and the working space was too small. In order to enter the pantry from the kitchen it was necessary to go through the living room. The refrigerator was in the shed. The lamps did not light the working surfaces. The walls were painted gray and the woodwork a darker shade. The woodbox was on the wrong side of the stove. The floor was full of splinters.

At the suggestion of the Home Demonstration Agent the following changes were made:The sink was moved to the east

side near the pump, and it raised to the proper

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height. The handle of the pump was changed to the right side. A window was put in the pantry above the working surface, and a door opened into the kitchen. A closed cupboard in the pantry was made for the dishes. The refrigerator was set in the pantry. Reflectors were placed on the lamps. The woodbox was put on the other side of the stove. Linoleum solved the floor problem, and a new coat of tan paint made the kitchen a more cheerful place to work. A comfortable chair, and a small table with a magazine or two on it will help the woman to take advantage of a few minutes' rest between duties.

Cellar