The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-28
KITCHEN WINDOW PANTRY.
A Handy Suggestion for Dweilers IN
Houses That Are Not
ROOmy.

The first thing is to take stock OF
your domestic dominion intelligently'
Consider well its possibilities, then
set about realizing them. With a
hall or porch handy try to put the ice
box there. Give it the best light pos
sible and as much fresh air, close be-
side it fix your fresh-air closet
which, save in the most torrid wealth
er, keeps cooked food better than the
ice box itself. 1t demands only to
be put out of doors away from the
suns direct rays. Hence it is as much
boon to the fat dweller with a
shady fire escape or north-looklng
window as to the people who have
houses all to themselves, says the
Washington Star.
Anybody who can drive nail can
make one at a cost not to exceed
dollar. 1t is only a frame box with
door and sides of wire gauze and
shelves across the inside. 1t is best
made fast to the wall at such a
height as to be safe from proving
cats, and should have further a
trusty lock. Put away food in it in
clean earthen dishes; never in any
sort of metal, not even in silver. Slip
each dish into a separate cheese
cloth bag and twist the bag end tight.
If ant, black or red, discover the
closet, paint the wood box all out
side with camphor once fortnight.
Twice year take down the whole
continuance and scald it outside and
in with boiling soda water.
All manner of food keeps beautiful
ly in it from one meal to the next.
Further, things may be put in it
while still warm. If they have to GO
into a tight, unventilated place, as
refrigerator, they must needs be
stone cold or they will get soggy and
smelly.
Always set away cooked things in
uncovered dishes. Wire gauze dish
covers will keep out dust and admit
of ventilation. They are, however
too costly for many purses. A good
substitute is a hoop or oval of stout
wire, with either cheesecloth or mos
quito net sevIed firmly over it. Make
the hoops Of sizes to fit all sorts OF
dishes, or, rather, of sizes to stand
an inch beyond the edges they must
cover. The weight of the wire holds
them well down. Every week drop
the covers in wash boiler with wa
ter and little soda, boil for five min.
utes and dry in the sun.
Light and lime, the best of antisep-
tics, should be relied on to keep the
fresh-air closets sweet. Hang bag
of quicklime somewhere and change
the contents as fast as the lime
Stacks. In country or suburban
houses ants are often plague. A
ring of air-slacked lime an inch wide
and half an inch deep will keep them
out of dish holding food. They can
not crawl over shelf thickly busted
with powdered lime. But since they
travel always by definite roads, it is
well to find the path and block it by
a smear of coal or pine tar, applied
if possible, outside the pantry.
Save in freezing weather, keep
fruits, vegetables and cut flowers in
the fresh-air closet until wanted
Cooked meas and salt ones can stay
there the year around, and fresh
meats in cold weather. 1t is further
the place for such things as cheese,
nuts, raisins, dates and olives. All OF
these lose flavor or grow rank by
keeping in warm place or by suf-
fering great alienation of tempera-