The evening times., 1895-08-10
FACTS, PADS AND FASHIONS
Goasipy Gleanings Of Interest il
the Home Circle.
Hints for Making the Kitchen En-.
durable During the Hot Weather,
and Other Useful Information.

| The summer Kitchen! H0Upy 10 she tC
| whom that term suggests slightly little
| cabin, stones throw removed from
| the dwelling-house, connected with 1t by
| a covered walk. Such q ore has no cause
to complain of her lot. She does not have
to weigh the merits of gas and oil stoves
She does not have to consume her dinner
in advance, as IL were, with the odors OF
meats and vegetables pemeating the en-
tire house. She does not live in constant
dread of wash day, and bakers bread is
I not to her the only refuge from q weekly
period of roasting. But, alas her name
, is not legion. She dwells mainly south Of
Mason and Dixon's line.
What Is the summer kitchen to most
women? A small, insufferablci apart :
ment, badly lighted by one, OF, where the
architect has been extraordinarily gem
erous. with two windows; a room where
a range roars in dog days; where the odors
of summer vegetables and fruits cling; a
room that sends forth through the house
more heat in August than the furnace can
be persuaded to give out In December.
One hears of other kitchens-rooms Of
tiles and hard wood, with gIast-doored
But so far the grasping builder Aas not
put them into the flats he means TO rent
at reasonable rates. However, they give
hints to the woman wise enough to act
upon hints II she cannot have tiled
walls she viii at least have walls COW
cred with washable linoleum paper in
,;c 10 r,.xp,t col,
both because the dark, little room viii
thereby be brighter and because Che up
to-date housewife wants her belongings
to show dirt as soon az there is any dirt
TO show. She viii dust her walls daily with
a broom covered at the bottom with canton
flannel, and she will wash them weekly by
the same simple method, but with another
broom.
If she cannot have hardwood floors,
she will have floors painted and varnished
until they are bard enough for all prac-
ucal purposes and are easy enough TO clean.
Her sink viii not be boxed Up underneath
to afford a delightful harborage To pots
and pans and sure one 10 water-bugs,
but will have its supports exposed. Her
kitchen cupboards will have glass doors
and in them she will keep in thinning array
all the grocery supplies ard provisions
which do not need to be put in the ice-box.
The icebox viii not be part of the kitchen
furnishing, but will have place of its own
outside the kitchen door.
The big table on which food Ia prepared
for cooking will not, in the wise woman's
house, be n modern one. If she cannot have
q long marble slab, suggestive of Il butca-
er's shop, she will cover the table with
zinc. Zinc will not absorb juices as wood
does, and 1t can always be kept clean with
out the expenditure of unnecessary
strength.
The ordinary range will not be used by
the wise woman during the summer She
will use gas stove instead. These have
been 80 improved during recent years that
dinner OF many courses may be easily
prepared on them. They arc easy of adjust
ment, and once meal Is cooked the fire
can be Immediately put out and the room
restored 10 a normal temperature
Charcoal and soda are among woman's
best friends In the summer kitchen. Soda |
dissolved in boiling water and poured into |
the sink daily keeps IL clean and whole |
some. Charcoal kept in the refrigerator |
in small saucer helps TO keep meat and |
butter untainted. 1t is an admirable kitch. |
en- disinfectant and cannot be too freely |
used. A tin cup filled with vinegar and |
placed on the back OF the stove will prevent |
~ spread Of cooking odors throughout the |
house.
One OF the pluckiest things which a man /
who has Travelled all over the world says |
hat he ever saw was the act OF n woman
whom he never spoke to nor even "a W near
.Dough TO know whether she was old or
TouDg. 1t was out in California canon ON
hot summer 8 afternoon, says the Youths
and he was driving slowly upa
,teep mountain road. On one side was
wall OF rock and ON tho other precipice
ell Off into valley perhaps half a mile
yide. Across this valley was another road
ust like the one be was traveling-steep,
Winding, and precipitous, and so narrow
rat no teams could pass except IN care
lily prepared spots. On this other road go
Dg slowly up, just as he was, he sa " mother
wagon, the horses driven by woman, who
vas alone. As the two wagons crawled
lowly up suddenly the man heard sharp,
uick sound, that soniehow startled him.
Ie turned and saw, to his horror, tearing /.
own the steep ascent at full galop, q !
air Of powerful horses, attuched 10 n |
eavy wagon, such as the. Aexfcans used
D draw " wood In. Down they came straight
4 tho f3y s,f rht<ta hs ars~