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Show Baking Day Passing l B-.ikin.? day and the community flour mill are passing, hand ia hand, from American life. Seven loaves of every ten that conic to the American table now are baked in commercial bakeries, and the fiour roll which was an institution in every community as hit civ as a ireneration ago has been forced from business by diminution in housewives' need for flour and the demand of commercial bakeries for a uniform grade of flour, y.ccording- to statistics. riven the taruier's wife, who bulwarked the last stronghold strong-hold of the home-baked loaf, now is oidering her bread and a ilozen loaves at once from the community dealer, who gets biir caskets of it tlailv fieri the nearest city bakery, it is said. " 'the commuuitv flour mill is only a memory in the greater ! part of the country and undoubtedly the old baking day is also passing. Pread' makine; has reached wonderful perfection mid with the passing of the home-made variety there passes too, a task of considerable labor. Advancement in this regard P'n'aHcls other conditions in modern life, which have clone r.vav with much of the old-time drudgery. This is as it should be, of course, for everv labor-saving device leaves for its user more leisure time, or ti.no that may be employed to better advantage. But. even as there was a charm in the picturesque old community mid, so was there a charm, with a different appeal, ap-peal, of course, in the old baking day. Those who have smellcd the savory odors that emanated from the kitchen on bakim' davs will not -soon forget them. The housewife was rot wTthout her reward as well as her toil, when she viewed the finished, delicious product of her hands. Time, which is continually changing the old order of things, generally mixes a little of 'bitter wiili the newly offered sweet. It is the way f progress. |