Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-17
GRANDMOTHER'S KITCHEN
WONDERFUL THINGS THAT INvEN-
TloN HAS DONE FOR OUR HOMES.

WONDERFUL THINGS THAT INvEN-
TON HAS DONE FOR OUR HOMES.
How Art and Science Have Elevated and
softened the Lives Of WOmen-Ths
Luxuries, EIeganoiss and Comforts Of
Modern LIfs-whsrs to See All These
Beautiful and Useful Things.
Much as invention and progress In
manufactures have done for man, 1t Is
probable that they have done still more
for woman within the last fifty years.
Although the inventions for the house
hold and for woman have not been great
ones, except the sewing machine, and
therefore are not comparable to the tele-
graph, telephone, thrashing and moving
machines, phonograph, typewriter, cleo
trio lights, and other wonderful inventions
that have revolutionized modern life and
business for man; yet the host Of COM
paratively lesser inventions and improve
ments in woman's household realm have
really ameliorated her life and elevated
the condition of society more than the
grander achievements Of science.
1t was only about fifty years ago that
the blessed genius of invention 6rst turned
its serious attsRtieh toimproving womanis
utensils and inventing new comforts and
labor saving devices for household use.
But in that period what an enormous ad-
vance The invention of the sewing
machine was ope of the early great ad-
vances that has caused an immense pro-
gress in elevating woman from the posi-
bion of an overworked household drudge;
but the lesser inventions have done still
more.
ASK YOUR GRANDMOTHER
to describe minutely her kitchen and her
household furnishings of sixty years ago.
Possibly you remember how grandma's
pies, or cookies, or doughnuts were the
delights of your childhood. But now,
taking a calm business view of 1t, with
your wife's assistance, you will be aston
ished to think how grandma managed to
keep house at all, much more to cook any
thing beyond the barest necessities with
her meagerly furnished kitchen, pantry
and house.
Your grandmother had no stove, nor
any Of the convenient pans, pots, kettles,
and other furnishings that go with q
stove. Just think of that as starter
cooking and keeping house without any
stove Your grandmother had no roller
process nor any other process fine -four.
| The poorest and coarsest grade Of -four
| you can possibly find anywhere now Is
better than the best -four your grand
mother had Your grandmother had no
good sugar. She used q quality like our
| cheapest brown sugar-such as your wife
| zl,nLl 1nff hou
in the house. Sometimes, ''for company"
grandma brought out ''loaf sugar." white
but "harder'n rock, and
HAVING TO BE BROKEN UP WITH HAMMER
before it could be used even in chunks for
tea or coffee. And large part Of your
grandmother's Ssweet'nin'" in cooking
was done with black Orleans molasses.
But we can best tell what your grand
mother didn't have by hearing what she
did have. Your grandmother's kitchen
was furnished with big brick or stone
fireplace, where she burned cordwood
three to six feet long. She had frying
pan with handle five feet long; skillet
with similar long handle; two or thret
pots to hang over the fire on hooks hung
on the iron crane in the chimney; an iror
tea-kettle with legs, to either hang on thu
crane or set on the Goals; big iron bake
kettle with thick iron cover like /,
saucer-(it was set amid the Goals to bake
and Goals were also piled upon the sauce
shaped cover; and a tin bake oven, fixet
! to sit on its long legs over Goals, with I
. sloping roof that reflected the heat from
the fire down on top Of the bread or biscuit
baking.
YOUR GRANDMOTHER HAD NO wAsHBOILER
She boiled her clothes in q big iron O
brass kettle hung over the fire. She hat
no soap except she made it herself, eithe
for washing or toilet She couldn't sent
!, to the grocer, as you do, and take he
choice of dozen different kinds of soa
Your grandmother not only did all IL
family sewing and knitting by hand (sew
ing and knitting machines were then
dreamed of, but she actually had to max
the cloth Of wool and linen, and her yarns
with her own loom and spining-wheel
and dye them, and cut and make undel
9 wear for the whole family, both male an
] female
9 The furniture in your grandmother
house was scanty, though the best Nigh
be solid mahogany. She had no piano
Your grandmother had not more than on
: carpet, unless it was homemade; so sh
8 had no use for q carpet sweeper, had ther
t been any such thing in her days. S
J. barren, so hard, so poverty-stricken, "
should consider the conditions of her lif
i But grandmother got on pretty happil,
n after all, and managed to train up
r BRAVE SONS AND CHAsTE DAUGHTERS.
= Both were bred to live useful and indu
r, trious lives
I'll II the wives and daughters, as well 9
n the fathers and sons Of the present da,
= want to appreciate the comforts and lu,
i uries Of modern homes, let them, bearin
?, in mind the scantiness that grandmotht
J: endured, visit the Detroit Internationi
d Fair and Exposition, Aug. 26 to Sept
}. inclusive, and see the rich and immen.
J. collection of goods, wares, invention
,r tools, utensils, machines, and the thousan
y useful, elegant, and toilsaving articles (,
the family and household that will the
y be exhibited, all of the latest STYLES ar
g best makers. From the richest Jewel
D, embroidery, laces, furs, and the late
styles of bonnets, hats, robes, silks, velve
ofl and all dress goods for both men ar
women, to all the finest furniture ar
', furnishing of q modern home-all I'll
- latest and handsomest stoves for heath
and cooking, from the elegant and artist
art tile stove through all grades to Il
latest and best nickel-plated kitchs
range; from an machines and invention
through the finest sewing and knittiI
~ machines, meat choppers, cherry -stonel
g, fruit-jarers, raisin-s -seeders, down to Il
IN smallest Of the thousand ingenious devic