The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-18
HERE'S A CONVENIENT KITCHEN.

Hints About the Walls and Floors and
the Use of Whitewash.
Although few women are permitted to
plan their own kitchens, or even TO furnish
them according to their own ideas Of con-
venience, it is pleasant TO read what an
other deems best for this workroom. One
CT the first essentials of the kitchen is that
it shall be well ventilated and large enough
for its purposes. Too large kitchen is q
mistake, as it makes extra steps, which
can be avoided when the room is more
compact.
Unfortunately, in houses built by per-
sous Of wealth, the proper arrangement Of
the kitchen is sometimes neglected, though
this is not often true of recently built
houses. in one of the most palatial man
sions in New York there is kitchen ceiled
and fioored with tiles, so that the floor and
walls can be washed down with hose and
their perfect cleanliness insured. Unfor-
tunately no special studyis generally made
in the kitchen of ventilation, so that ii
often interferes with the draft of the range
The next essential after perfect ventiIa-
ton is pure, sweet, clean walls, to which
the odors of cooking cannot cling. There
is nothing better than whitewashed wall
for the kitchen. Whitewash is itself a
purifier. There should be a wainscoting
about four feet high of hard wood and
hard wood floor in every kitchen. The
pretty hard pine that comes from places
nearer by than Georgia, and is, therefore,
less expensive, is within the reach Of the
purse of almost every householder. 1t
needs only oil to bring out the beauty of
its veinings.
A border of 6-inch blue tiles, two tiles
deep, should be around the sink where
water is splaShed almost continually, and
wood is liable to rot, or at least become dis
colored. If stationary tubs are to be q
part Of the outfit of the kitchen, remember
that those with white enameled Innings
cost little more than ordinary ones and
last much longer. A white enameled sink
is always wholesome looking, because it
can be kept clean easily.
The most essential furniture of the
kitchen is the stove. This should be of the
best manufacture, and there are so many
first class manufacturers of stoves that it
would truly be difficult matter to fail to
find one if one were in search of good
stove. The same general principle in
drafts is adopted by all first class stove
LuduiiLdCUuTcTS. I0eF6 are 30 many pdbeQb-
ed articles for the kitchen that one is in
danger of falling across at least several
makeshifts which pretend to do the work
Of more ordinary things and only partially
take their place.
The wringer and few other inventions
are genuine boons to the housekeeper. A
large hard wood table and, if possible,
small stone or marble table, should be in
every kitchen. The wooden table should
have two or three drawers in place of one,
as they are far more convenient.
A kitchen dresser, with shelves above and
drawers beneath, is always convenient
piece of furniture. A kitchen should have,
If possible, two windows, which may have
broad window seats, so that a kitchen gar
den ofherbs can be accommodated in one Of
them.
Kitchens should be well supplied with
wire screens at the doors and windows to
keep out flies in summer. 1t is also good
plan to have springs that shut the doors
automatically, whenever any one passes
through them, attached to those doors
which lead to the main living portions of
the house. BY this means the odors of
cooking are not allowed to penetrate into |
the house. After all, each person and fam !
lily can judge best what Is needed In the !
Herald.