Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-08-28
HOUSEHOLD.
KITCHEN CONvENIENCES.


gestions with regard to convenient
arrangements may prove helpful.
In the first place, seek to make
your kitchen as pleasant as possible
and then with your husbands kindly
aid to add one by one those little
helps which aid so materially in
tightening the labor of the daily
routine.
Take the work table for instance.
Is it adapted to your height? If not,
it will take but little time to place
blocks under it, or, better still, to
make new legs. Then add couple
of drawers and put castors on the
legs. You will be surprised at the
improvement. The drawers will prove
very handy, and the castors greatly
facilitate the work of moving the
table.
Just above and at one side of the
table suspend a small cupboard, 31a
by feet, having two shelves inclosed
and lower open shelf. Use one for
medicines, the other for spices, tea,
coffee, extracts, baking powder, etc.,
and on the open shelf arrange your
kitchen knives, forks, spoons, etc.
On the under side and at the further
end of the cupboard place hooks for
the accommodation of other tools to
| be used about the table. Use the top
for your clock and lamps, and to the
end nearest the table fasten the coffee
mill and a bracket lamp, which, by
the way, will do its work much more
effectively if supplied with reflector
On the opposite side of the table,
suspend -four bin, a cylindrical one
made of tin, holding just fifty pounds,
haIi ing a sitter and a movable cup
attached. In this keep your pastry
-four, using your regular bins for
bread, graham and other brands.
And this brings US back to the subject
of cupboards again. Every kitchen
should have at least one large, roomy
one. Mine is eleven feet long and
extends from floor to ceiling. 1t is
divided into two main parts, upper
and lower, the former being provided
with shelves for the accommodation
of dishes, tinware, etc, the latter
divided into drawers and small
cupboards. 1t is provided with
bread board, removable, of course,
which serves also for small tenn
porary shelf when needed. In the
| center of the cupboard is the dumb
waiter, and let me say right here,
every farmers wife should have one.
1t is not necessary to have an elaborate
affair; simple moving cupboard of
three shelves, running into wooden
frame suitably screened in the cellar
serves the purpose very nicely.
However, if you cannot have this,
why not try window provision
cupboard? Make kitchen or pantry
window slide easily up and down, and
fit into the window, from the outside,
a drygoods box, fastening it to the
casing. Puncture few holes in the
box or use wire netting for ventila-
ton. Place one, two, or three shelves
in the box, as desired, and arrange a
sash curtain over the lower half of
the window. When the window is
lowered your provisions are kept as
cool as the outside air and are always
close at hand.
Another item in the line of access
series is clothes press for the little
odds and ends of daily use. If you
cannot afford a little corner off the
kitchen for this purpose, again resort
to the drygoods box. Select one, say
81 by 2 by 2, pad it nicely and cover
with cretonne. This will make very
convenient catchall for odds and
ends that cannot be suspended on
hooks, and will at the same time add
to the looks and comfort of your
kitchen. To facilitate moving castors
should be added.
The stove is not always adapted to
the stature of its mistress, but can be
made to conform by the use of blocks.
1t should be set out from the wall
sufficiently to make room for the
woodbox behind, not only for the
sake of convenience, but for the
general effect as well. The kitchen
sink should always stand in close
proximity to the stove. It should be
supplied with drain and pump at
either end for cistern and we'll water
respectively. A very neat and SER
viceable splasher may be made OF
galvanized sheet iron. It can be
cleaned readily and furnishes much
needed protection for the walls,
especially if papered. Above the
sink one or two shelves well supplied
: with hooks underneath will prove
very conve nient.- New York Tribune
; Farmer.