The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-11
MODEL KITCHENS.
Some Very Good Ideas for Suburban
H0usebuilders.


many a man who works in the city
on a salary is enabled to build for
himself Oh purchase a comfortable
little cottage in the suburbs, who
would not have dreamed of such a
thing ten years ago, and many OF
them have good, economical, sensible
wives, (all accounts of the unfitness OF
American girls to be poor mems wives
to the contrary Notwithstanding, who
are willing to go without a servantfor
a time and buckle down to the drudg-
cry of the homework themselves, until
the little home nest is paid for and the
mortgage on it is cancelled.
Nov, these wives know a thing or
two, and generally have good ideas,
sometimes much better ones than their
husbands, on what the architecture
OF a suburban house should be, bar
ring an unaccountable desire for an
unnecessary number of cupboards.
And generally the first thing they
think of, especially If they intend to
do without a servant, is the arrange
ment of the kitchen. Now, here is
plan,n continued the architect, sort
ing over a number of ''rear, side and
front elevations ''of what | call a
model little kitchen for winter and
summer use. 1t was suggested by
the wife of a newspaper man, too, who
intends doing her own work in it for
awhile.
First of all, you see it is built in
the shape of a lean to or addition to
the house itself. You might think
that a lamentable waste of heat in the
xryfyfnr fTtna run,111 oncx.n ht1f fhn
house is heated by a furnace in the
cellar, and the great advantage of this
semi-detached kitchen is felt in the
summer time. You see this big sky
light in the roof? Well, that lifts up
with a strong cord which hangs down
close to the range, and in warm
weather the hot air and the vapors
from the cooking will rush up and
out of the skylight, instead of roast
ing the little cook. The chimney,
too, is on the outside wall, you see, so
as not to heat the dining room I'M
necessarily, and the kitchen has a
window on either side, with a door at
the end which leads into a little in
closed porch, which in turn opens on
the rear yard. In this porch stands
the refrigerator, and its waste pipe
passes through the floor, emptying
into the gutter outside.
"The range, too, is provided with
that great convenience, a sitter and a
chute, down which the ashes pass into
a closed box inthe cellar. Thus there
is ne handling of hot ashes, with their
inevitable dust, in the kitchen.
Now look at the tubs, stationary,
of course, and placed at a distance
from the range and out of the way of
the door. Three of them, you see, are
for the actual washing, one for rinsing
and another for blueing. They are
porcelain lined. Iron, no matter how
well galvanized, rusts in time, and
wood retains the odor of the soap
suds and is hard to dry and keep
clean; but porcelain is easily cleaned,
never smells and lev rusts. See
these little dents or pockets in the
sides Of the tubs? They're for the
SOAP or blue, and the front side of the
tubs is waved or indented like a wash
board, and serves that useful purpose
just as well as the regular article,
though not interfering with its use.
THE sink is broad and wide and
deep enough to set the dish pan in. 1t,
too, is porcelain lined for the same
reasons, and has its little soap shelves
also. On one side of it is a draining
rack to stand the wet dishes in, and
on the other is a leaf table that drops
down tight to the wall out of the way
when not wanted, but when the dishes
are being washed it is Indispensable
to put the dried ones on, as the regu-
lar kitchen table is over on the other
side of the room.
This kitchen table, by the way, is
q treasure. 1t looks more like the
cabinet desk of a business man than
anything you would expect to find in
q kitchen. 1t has a back part that
stands against the wall and is all
pigeon holes and drawers. They CON
tain not papers and memoranda, but.
spices and ingredients of all kinds that
are used in cookery, and required to
be kept in small parcels. The table
proper is a big and broad one, and has
a big 400 shaped cut in it,Swhere
the cook sits on aIittle swing seat that
pulls out from under the board. Here
she can reach all the pigeon holes
without rising and still have plenty of
room on the table at either hand for
the food she is preparing.
1.-The Indispensable pantry is a big
one, and is situated between the
kitchen and the dining To
reach the dining room from the
kitchen one must pass through the
pantry or go out into the hall, which
has an independent entrance into
each Don This arrangement pre-
vents the odors of the cooking from
reaching the dining room. The
kitchen is finished in hard wood, not
vanished, but simply oiled. Varnish
shows every splash of water that it
gets, while the oiled surface can be
rubbed and polished clean with ease.
The woodwork is plainly but tightly
fitted together; no ornamental groov-
ing is allowed to furnish r~eceptacles
and hiding places for the festive cock
reach and the friendly croton bug. u Z
saissBnt perhaps the greatest innovaI
tibn of all is the. expedientat to save the
housewifeefrom having to run up and
down the cellar stairs any more
than is absolutely necessary.
Did you see Faust Up to
Date at the Broadway Theatre last
month"; Yes; we'll, then you renlen-
Der when the barmaid and her bar
rose through the floor and disappeared
again without shaking a glass or bot
tie from the shelves. Why should
such a convenient ARRANGEMENT be
confined to the stage? The mechanism
is simple enough. The machinery of,
the old dulnb-waiter that we are all
accustomed to is sufficient, and so this