Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-27
How Would Like to Equip Kitchen


No carpenter, mason. plasterer, or even
farmer ever thinks OF doing acceptable
work for himself or anybody else without
appropriate tools for doing his work.
Who can expect a cook to DO nrst
class work in a kitchen with no conVen-
fences to make her work comfortable ana
expeditions?
The pathway OF the average housewife
Is not generally strewn with roses. When
she is obliged 10 do. she will put up with
things that she Is far from pleased with,
and the make-shifts sometimes cast
gloomy shade over her daily treadmill
life. which ought to be remedied whenever
It IS possible.
I have stood in a butchers shop and
seen the clear, clean cutting OF meat.
That memory came back to me in disgust
when have sawed away on a ham OF
shoulder OF bacon with a dull knife, and
left ragged edges all about. I'd have
sharp knives IL my kitchen was wen
equipped as I'd like to see IL.
1 am tired OF cheap tin, and To use
granite or aluminium II had the choosing
OF utensils I get out of sorts with the
skillets and frying pans that are black TO
start with and stay black to the end. or
until the old stove is replaced with new
one and change occurs.
I'd have a range-and double boilers,
fruit cleaners, potato Washers, cream
churns, raisin seeders, sugar sifters, fruit
strainer, devices to make the butter come
quickly, and every other thing that would
make the work easy, when had 10 De
chief cook and bottle washer" In my
own kitchen. II had matters arranged
as I would like them.
I know a farm that spent over two
hundred dollars last year in hardware to
make very poor crop. and from what
gather, about the business the house
mother cooked all the year. without more
than a dollars worth OF new kitchen ap-
planes. OF course the farm must have
every improved thing that is talked about
and southern farmers have spent millions
in what is talked about as improved ma
chinery, with the most Of the things rot
ting and rusting out in the barn yards
after a years trial. hardware men get
ting rich, farmers growing poor.
I'd have brushes in my kitchen for
cleaning potatoes. for securing tins, and
moldinE boards, a model cooking table
covered with zinc, kitchen floor warm,
and I'd have a place for every brush, and
save my hands from soap and chaps. If
could.
I'D have -four and meal bins, spice and
knife drawers, a place for the cut meat,
in shape for cooking, and then would
not be chasing about as now do, to get
meat at one place lard at another, and
meal at another. I'd have covered roast
ing pans, for fowls, for meat and for
bread raising. wire frying baskets, and
I'd have a sink in the kitchen that let
down the dish water into pipes and took
IL clear away from the house without my
trotting about with sloppy dish pan, and
with chickens. cats and little pigs max
ing a mess about the slop buckets; as too
often happens. and as II is too often per-
formed in farm homes.
Don't understand that my wishes and
my performances are running parallel
wish they did. But'I'd have every young
housekeeper remember that her privi-
leges should be equal and commensurate
with the management of the general farm
business. I never expect to see my own
kitchen In the finely equipped style here
suggested. but II I was young again, I'd
try TO have II so.