Evening star., 1909-03-15
THIS FLAT IS FINE WAR AGAINST OPIUM
Bern's Latest Structure for International Commission Has
Housekeepers. Finished labors.
Us ALL BUT AUTOMATIC RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Take Drastic
Many Families Measures
GOOD FOOD AT LITTLE COST NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHINA
FourRo Re
the Be amin Regula-
and Served in Many Ways ton of the Drug
One Kitchen Does the Work for
Many Families.
GOOD FOOD AT LITTLE COST
Four Rooms for $500 a Year-Press
the Button and Be Fed, Swept
and Served in Many Ways.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

| Snecjal Cabiegram 10 Ihe Star
| BERLIN March 15-The solution of the
! servant problem in Berlin lies in the
! apartment house with the common kitch
en-. The "einkUechenhaus." or the ''one-
kitchenhouse." is Berlin's latest social de-
velopment and its progress is matter of
| considerable interest especially to for
| eigners. After six months of dngy fiat
| life in the cheap end of Wilhelmstrasse.
an Englishman OF the name of Jones and
his wife decided to try the new fad and
migrated to an Observation-Disclosures in a
distant suburb. and have had some re-
markable experiences.
| Jones' particular "onekitchenhouse'' Is
a big, bare building of kitchenless flats.
| for which all food and service come from
a central establishment downstairs an
old idea in New York but no; in Berlin.
| The worst cause of dsrust was that the
| institution sounded too good. II prom
! ised too much. For instead of sticking
posters on the blank walls. the organizing
company led off with IA 4O0-page volume
eXpoundng the basic economies. meta
| physics and esthetics OF the whole enter
| prise. When one is told by board of
professors that the "onekitchenhouse' is
"a reinCarnation of The forgotten divine
principle of beauty" and that il has moth
ing merely initiative in construction Or
| adornment one is naturally attracted,
| especially if ones present house has two
| ungarbed goddesses in stucco over every
| window, and among ali the several dozen
| stucco faces there are only three un-
broken noses.
Philosophy and Housekeeping.
| After settling in his new quarters Jones
| opened the big tome. and at the 2l5th
page discovered the following:
The elemental principles of a true and
| well ordered domesticity are expressed in
twelve basic rules, ali Of which have been
| adopted in the construction of our one
| kNchenhouSe.' For four well-lghted but
moderate-sized rooms Jones pays the so
| ciety $500 year. AS the German pro-
feSSiOnal promoters put il. "a 'Oneliitchen-
house is whole domestic economic insti-
tution,' and therefore the charge is rea-
Sonabe. For $3.50 YOU get the rooms
heated up to IL degrees Reaumur: You gs.
lifts. hot and cold water without limit,
vacuum cleaning and attendance. and you
have the use, free. of A gymnasium sun
and hot-air baths, and a roof garden
which at the present time of the year is,
of course, chiefly roof. And Mrs. Jones
favorite afternoon tea remark * that
every Berlin servant costs $500 a year il
time and worry. II follows that the
Joneses really get their fiat for s. 0 less
than nothing.
fbr convenience Jones pnekitCnen-
house beats the Cinematograph pictures
Of The Electric Ito,el." If Jones knocks
| out h $ midnight p.pa on the foo:-thare
are no carpetS-eariy next morning a lit
tie artificial tornado iirks. up the ashes,
without licking up also Aunt Margaret's
amethyst Brooch. Jones' dinner comes up
in dumh-Waiter. which x il breaks the
plates. pays for them out of its own
pocket If Jones begins to shiver all he
has TO do Is to telephone complaints to
" nO m n1tlGt
on more heat And when summer comes
Jones will lounge in the sun bath until
his skins peels off
A Jewel of a Kitchen.
But the chief virtue of Jones "one-
kitchenhouse' is its kitchen For ali his
meals Jones pays exactly S17.J) a month.
for his wifes $15, and if he had children
and servants he would pay proportionate
ly less. The 'onekitchenhouse' will kill
the Berlin cheap restaurant. which Is the
best in the world. 1t abiureS sham food
as it abjures sham decorations. Instead
of following the cheap restaurant and
giving half a dozen Indifferent dinner
dishes for 80 cents 1t gives you only
three, and each is as fundamental as
the philosophy on which 'onekitchen
houses are built. If you want a bigger
or better dinner for guests you can get
it Up to any cost-ail costs being rela
lively low. For an average OF .b cents
day you get early breakfast" late
breakfast dinner. evening coffee"
and finally supper, and you can arrange
your hour of eating as you like.
So that Jones and his wife gec four
excellent rooms. and much better food
than is eaten by the average middle
class family, at a cost of about 500
year. Jones is of course. saving money,
but, pleased as he Is with his savings, he
gets still more JOY from the loD-page vol
ume issued by the 'onekitchenhouse'
company, and says that Charles Lamb
would have written a much better Dis
sertation on Roast Pig had he studied at
Jena or Goettingen
Jones Gets a Servant
Daring his first month in the 'one-
kitchenhouse" Jones kept no servant The
door was opened by Mrs. Jones with the
air of a duchess receiving king. Jones
opened ii apologetically, much as to
say that the butler i'll and the foot
man carried off to serve in the Hussars
But the servantless stage came to an end
Being a good Briton Jones always dress
es for dinner, and being busy man,
he works afterward in his shirt sleeves.
One evening at = hearing a ring, which
he recognized as the postman's. he rushed
to the door, thus arraycd Before him
stood an elderly gentleman, whom Jones
thought he had met at some scientific
lecture. The elderly gentleman sazed
blankly at Jones and handed him card
with the inscription
'Dr. Geheimer Regierunssrat, professor
AdCl II Schornstein."
Give that to your master, good man"
he said and departed
Jones is still in the ''onekitchenhouse,"
and still works in his shirt sleeves But
he has hired small boy to open the
door. That raises his annual expenses