The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1895-09-25
The Kitchen Exposed.

fluences that are about to descend and
transform her kingdom.
1t is an interesting fact that at this
moment when there are So many anxious
fears about the result of the invasion of
women into the world, that everything
points tn a reign of donesticity such as
the world has never before seen. 1t is
also an interesting fact that this is due
neither to the preacher nor the moralist,
nor to any of the people with words of
warning and wisdom 1t is the triumph
of science, which, having furnished cleo
tricity for fuel and aluminium for pots
and pans, has removed the drudgery of
the kitchen so that Cookery may now in
deed become one of the polite arts.
CASE IN POINT.
An illustration is more to the POINT. A
couple of women, few years ago they
would have been called ladies. through
one of those vicissitudes of fortune too COM
mon in this country TO require comment,
were obliged TO alter their manner Of living.
In 0 city rent is the specter that haunts most
homes These ladies took three rooms, a
floor in the usual New York house, which
allows for a bathroom in the place of the
hall bedroom. There was 10 kitchen 1t
is easy enough 10 prepare a modern break
fast on a bureau or a parlor table, but the
vagabond habit of dining at restaurants
did not appeal to women accustomed o the
privacy of their own table 1t was es-
sentiai to their ideas of orderly living to
have kitchen. This was what they did.
One corner of the library and sitting
room was faced with glittering white
HOT nd tor in
troduced above a tiny porcelain sink A
gas stove was set up on ore side and on
the other a get of pretty shelves. A small
kitchen table found room, and brass hooks
and small brackets made place for every
thing, and everything was in its place.
The floor below was laid with tiles and a
small opening connected with the drain of
the sink. The entire space was not Diver
five square feet, and was enclosed by tall
japanese screen that effectually screened
it from view, when a glimpse was not
begged of So dainty and pretty corner
Here every culinary act was not only pos
sible, but performed.
MAIDLEss, BUT HAPPY.
A maid omnipresent would have been q
serious encumbrance, apart from her wages.
These women did their own work The
brief description shows that there were
no fires 10 build, no ashes to carry out,
that the act of cooking required but the
turn of the wrist. But the pride of the
corner were the aluminium pots and pans
hanging like polished silver against the
shining enamel wall. No Imagination can
illumine nor any idealization of the arts
of domesticity ever make the washing Of
pots and pans anything but the most
odious drudgery. Washing, ironing, scrub
bling may be lifted measurably seen by the
poets eye when in frenzy rolling, but the
scullion is not only not admitted into verse,
but to the championship of the other
servants.
On the other hand, there Is no novelist
who is unwilling TO allow bis heroine to
wash the silver. 1t is considered, indeed,
rather pretty occupation and allows for
the display of well-turned wrist and at
tractive costuming. The washing Of these
aluminium pots and pans has as many
graceful possibilities as the washing Of
silver. Imagine pudding stick in
flounce Of white Irvine, and jar Of snowy
aIkali.
When the dinner was served the pans
were given q dash of hot water ana q