In many rural households, the space allotted to the kitchen is often cramped and narrowed too much. Women are not often consulted when houses are built, and it is usually the kitchen that suffers for lack of room. A piece of kitchen furniture, therefore, that will answer three distinct purposes, is a great convenience. Here is one (figure 1) that is at once a settee, a trunk, and an ironing table or bake board. There is a box or trunk, in which one may stow away many things that usually lie about, having no special place allotted for them otherwise. The lid of this trunk forms the seat of the settee. The ends are raised up, forming the arms. The back of it is pivoted upon one side of the ends, and when it is turned down, as seen in figure 2, it forms a table. When it is turned down, it is held in its place by two small hooks, seen in the illustration at figure 1.