Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-26

upon which repose great platters and pitch
| ers which are only called from the dust OF
their high position upon state occasions
that is, if German housewife ever allows
dust to have show at all. A large clock
upon the wall, with weights exposed, gives
the the cook no excuse tor want of punctu-
ality or for having things ruined by q mis-
measure of time.
The Base of Operations.
The range takes up great space, and the
wall behind is tiled far up to all appear
ance. Above the range are shelves upon
which are placed the stewpans 20 the num-
Der of Is in regular graduation from
pints to gallons Along the edges of these
shelves are hung beer mugs in exact order
though why just II in number is not
shown. Along the tiles are the skillets and
more saucepans and frying-pans - what
| these are in German 1 do not trust myself
to say. At the right are shelves
full of canisters, egg-beaters, gradu-
ated crooks, pans, endless spoons and
all manner of cooking untensilA Nearby
are four-pound cake pans, as they are called
in this country. A row of keys is prom
inent, while coffee and spice mills and more
spoons are in full view. The wood box, the
table. the sink are all shown in most at
tractive guise. The floor is tiled and every
thing looks as neat as wax.
Good order, good management, frst-class
brains seem pre-eminent in that pictured
kitchen, but every housekeeper knows the
difference between the real and the ideal.
The amount of work in that kitchen is SIM
PLY appalling. With their labor-saving
ideas no American woman would have it.
Pretty and picturesque as it is, suggestive
nf ri Sfa
ing and good cooking. as it appears in
plain reality, il would make an American
woman tired to look at, and no cook would
stand the amount of work to keep it in good
order.
American Women Tirsd OF Drudgery.
American women have not the large
capacity tor useless drudgery possessed by
their German sisters With kitchen like
that to look after, they could find no time
for their clubs, their missionary meetings,
their church festivals. and their endless
schemes for making money in benevolent
enterprises American women are made of
the same stuff as American men and have
no idea of digging and delving, when a
steam paddy. a patent diSh-washer, or a la
bor-saving invention of any kind can help
them out with the work. The German
Kitchen as presented makes a picturesque
interior" but with the labor attached to
keep it in shining order, it will never COM
mend itself to this country as a practical
reality.
AJapanese kitchen is to be another prom
lnent feature in the great Fair 1t is to be
constructed exactly as it appears in Japan.
In its limited space and rare simplicity will
be shown what can be achieved by people
whose marrow country and small territory
enforce small things. In this kitchen is to
be served Japan tea in its real purity
mo dried weeds or baked plants deftly
dyed. The Japanese tea merchants are de-
termIned to educate the American market
to a taste for their bona fde tea, and to
make them willing to nay for it Not bad
idea for the heather, whose conversion to
honesty and morality is an object off mis-
sionary effort
Why japanese Women Always Smile.
Japanese housekeepers, according to Ed
win Arnold, are the most charming and de-
lightful in the world, so from their exhibit
OF housekeeping American women may learn
how to manag:, without wear and tear of
brain, and how to preserve sweetness of
mind and smoothness OF temper
This proposed exhibit of foreign kitchens
suggests that a backwoods kitchen of q CEN
tury ago in this country might be useful in
showing how American brains and Drawn
nave peen prouuceu Dy Ine most utter SIM
plicity in cooking and living. The early
home of Abraham Lincoln would be nota- |
BILE example. In one room and a loft was
brought up the great man of his century
whose name glows among the immortals. A |
teakettle, Dutch oven and skillet
were the cooking utensils of his day, and |
hog and hominy doubtless the diet of the
hero of history. The log cabin is embalmed |
in American lie and records as the home |
of many of the greatest that have written |
their names high in their country's story,
Why then should not Pittsburg exhibit in
Chicago backwoods kitchen in its priml-
tive simplicity? What the world calls ge-
MUS seems to find its most fertile soil-not |
in drawing rooms and ideal kitchens-but |
rather in the homes of simplicity, amid the |
straits of poverty and in the everyday |
stress of getting living.
BESSIE BRAMBLE