Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-11-17
saint Maru's Beacon



in the management Of their homes,
they oversee the work Of q servant,
and are in and out Of the kitchen
many times day.
This being the case. it naturally
follows that the average American
kitchen is growing to be cheerful
and pleasant. not a dingy, ugly
spot, the scrap basket OF the house.
The prim New England house
keeper may have a smile for the
thought Of a blue-and- white kitchen,
for it does sound little elaborate to
get up a color-scheme for this busy
work room; but she would really be
the first to appreciate the exquisite
neatness and aesthetic pleasantness
of a delicately clean pretty, Delft
kitchen.
1t would be absurd, of course, il
one has a nice kitchen with stout
iron and fresh tin ware, to suggest
doing il all over in a blue-an white
effect, just for arts sake. But IL
you're doing a new kitchen, or max
ing over an old one, don't fail to
strive for this new, charming and
hygien;c effect.
And IL your kitchen is old and
shabby, then do it over little by
little, as you freshen it each season
until, in a year or two, you will find
with only the necessary outlay that
the room you dreaded to work in and
that your family avoided if possible
has grown an inviting spot, cheer
full and wholesome.
OF course your felt effects are not
real, and you don't get imported
windmill china and PLAQUES, and
blue and white tiled stoves and cup
boards; but you get floor and table
oil cloths in blue and white designs,
for not cent more than ugly colors-
cost. And you cover your walls
with blue-and- white imitation tile
paper, which is very cheap, and you
put white dotted swiss curtains at
the window, very plain ones with
out rnffie or plat and hung on
cheap brass rods so that without
any trouble they can be washed at
least once month.
And the woodwork is painted a
clean, dull green, which fits perfec-
tly with your colors and is easier to
keep clean than white, and the cell
ing is pure white.
All this costs not one cent more
than the dull uninteresting colors
that are put in the average kitchen.
In fact, your paper costs less than
painting the walls, and if vanished,
will last years and can be washed.
Now for the utensils and dishes.
There is no heavy crockery not oil
the coarsest and cheapest, any
cheaper than heavy modern willow
ware, and it comes in the prettiest
blue and white. Put it on your cup.
board shelves so that il will show
and have real old-time open cup
board on which you hang the cups
with the saucers in rows on shelves
above. 1t isn't any trouble, il saves
time TO have them so convenient.
And with the craze for blue-and-
white kitchens the shops are show
ing stove dishes of enamelled ware
in the prettiest blues, lined with
white, no more costly than the ugly
old iron kettles and pans, and very.
very durable. And infinitely easier
to keep clean.
But, as | said, if you had a well.
equipped kitchen to start with, the
only way is to add bits of blue and
white in china, or pottery, or oil
cloth as you can, just as one forms
any pretty collections of nice articles.
The modern kitchen has not only
an artistic standard of appearance,
but is more wholesome and hygieni-
cally fresh. The reason for its
superior daintiness is because il is
cleaned with borax water; that is a
suds OF warm water, pure borax and
CASTLE soap.
From new blue-and- white-oil. cloth
10 old and worn iron ware this so.u-
ton is the wisest and cheapest meth
cd OF cleansing. Il does away with
the scrubbing brush and thus saves
money by saving wear and tear and
time.
With bOrax suds, half q cake of
borax and half q cake of SOAP 10 a
pail OF hot water, you can house
clean an entire kitchen, walls and
stove utensils and floor in couple
Of hours: And do it in q fresh nice
frock and look pretty all the time.
And one more idea. Be sure 10
have one vigorous growing plant, a
stout geranium or sturdy fern, in
your window. IL will be charming
with your color-scheme, an iuspirat-
ing sight to mistress or maid, no
trouble, no expense and mnch r,anna