Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1911 — HANDY IN PRESERVING TIME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HANDY IN PRESERVING TIME

Device That Not On# Protects the Hands, but la of Value In Many Other Respects. A useful article for housewives wh# do their own preserving is the jarholder, designed by an lowa man. lit will not only keep the Jars from breaking and allow them to cool quickly, bnt will save the person who handles them from burning her hands. There is a circular metal frame with holes in it to permit the tops of jars to pass through. Arms with their ends bent down extend out from this frame and fit over the rim of a basin

or other large pan, and one of these arms Is adjustable so that It can be screwed tight to hold the whole contrivance firmly in position. The jars can be placed in the basin and the framework drawn over them and screwed fast. This leaves space between each jar so that they may cool quickly, where otherwise they stand close together, and each helps the other retain the heat. Then the jars are filled with the preserving mixture, whatever it may'’be, the lids screwed on and the basin renioved to a convenient place till the preserves cool.