The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07
Country Kitchens.

In the city, where land is bought and
sold by the square inch, we must take
| what space is allowed for kitchens and
make the best of it. But in the coun-
try, where land is bought and sold by
the acre we can certainly have as much
of it under our kitchen floors as is
needful for comfort and convenience,
and we can have our kitchens so ar
ranged as to be pleasant rooms to work
in and to live in all the year round.
Somebody must live in the kitchen six
teen hours out of the twenty-four, and
that somebody, whether the mistress of
the family or her servant, is very i'm
portant factor in the veal or woe of
the family, and it is the best policy in
the world to keep her in good physical
and mental condition. A pleasant, con-
yenient, well-furnished kitchen goes q
long way to do this.
Let us then have the kitchen l.
shaped, facing south, with windows on
the north and doors and windows on the
south, so that there may be sunshine in
the room the year round and abundance
of fresh air, especially in the summer.
Let the ceiling be high and the walls
and ceiling painted some neutral tint,
so they can be washed with soap and
water whenever occasion requires. Let
door on one end open into the dining
room, which shall be in the main part
of the house, and doors at the other
end open into the pantry and the wood
house, and the floors of all these con-
tiguous rooms be on one uniform level.
Let the extension be two stories high,
SO that the room over the wood house
may serve as a drying room in winter,
thus saving clothes from being torn by
frost and wind. and pneumonia from
being contracted while hanging them
out, and the room over the kitchen,
with the stovepipe from the kitchen
running through it, may serve as a
warm play-roOm for the children in
winter. A stairway from the wood
house or kitchen may lead to these
rooms.
In the kitchen we want q sink with
water in and out of it. cooking store
or range, and large work table be-
tween two windows on the north side
or the south side of the room. These
three to be in such relations with each
other and with the pantrr as to eceno-
mize steps most closely, and to leave
the rest of the kitchen undisturbed.
Many families use their kitchen as a
dining-room, and can do so with great
convenience if it is properly arranged.
But ii the sink is in one corner of the
kitchen and the pantry diagonally op-
poSite, and the work table in the line of
neither. there will be no clear space for
the dining-table, and innumerable IN
necessary steps will be required to do
the work.
The pantry should be large enough
to contain everything requisite to get
meals withal. In front of the window
in it, there should be broad shelf I'M
der which the flour and sugsr barrels
may find place. and on which may rest
the paSte-board or breakdown when
bread andpies are made. Ample shelf
room should be provided. and abun-
dance of hooks to hang utensils on. and
it should be so furnished that when the
cook goes into it to prepare meal, she
may find everything there to do with.
except such articles as have their nat
ural place in the cellar or in the refrig-
orator.
The wastes OF the kitchen can be so
disposed of as net to be wastes. A pail
may receive such as are devoted to do
nestle animals, others may be restored
to the earth As fertilizers. and still 9TH
ers may be purified by hire and given
back to the elements in gaseous and
ashy form to start on their beneficient
rounds again. The liquid wastes may
be conducted to cess-poel lined with
cement and closely covered. and thence
pumped out and distributed over the
garden ANY carpenter can make
pump of nicely fitting boards, square,
and with a long ..plunger." with a
..box'' at the end fitted with a valve,
which will answer all practical purposes
as cess-pool pump and cost a mere
trifie. In drouth this proves 3 valua-
BILE possession.
We have made no provision in the
kitchen sketched above for laundry
work, because this should have a room
for itself and by itself. Part of the
wood-house may be partitioned off. and
be furnished with pump and waste
pipes, stove and tubs and other
heCSSSdls ulcusuS tcT ldunuEN WOrk.
Such provisions saves a deal of annoy
ance and veXation on washing and
ironing days, saves the kitchen from
the steam and smell of hot and edorous
sHds, especially when cooking is going
on, saves the clothes from absorbing the
smells of the kitchen. and more than
all, saves the wear on the dispositions
of both cook and laundress. or when
these two worthless meet in one person,
divides the wear There should be
closet in the laundry, and in this, starch.
bluing, clothes-pins, fat-irons and the
ike can be kept.
Along the front of our kitchen let
there be piazza covered with vines.
and at one end of it a tree to shade it
in summer, and under which the house
wife may sit, as she prepares her vege-
tables or watches her bread baking. and
enjoy the beauties of nature, the sing
ing of birds, the rustling of the leaves |
overhead, while nothing going on in the
kitchen escapes REPRESENTATION Y
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