The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-10
How to Be Happy, Though Housekeeping

requirements. Each apartment has a
bathroom supplied with hot water day
| and night Electric light and central
steam heating are also included in the
equipment, and each apartment is con-
nected by telephone with the general
kitchen and also with the public tele-
phone system. Meals are prepared in
the general kitchen and sent up to
each apartment by means of an cleo
tric dumbwaiter.
Privacy is as complete as in an
apartment house of the usual type. The
only commercial feature is the centrali-
cation and specialsm of every task of
housekeeping = cleaning, ventilation,
lighting, heating and preparation of
food-so that the tenants are entirely
relieved of the burden of marketing,
making fires, cooking, sewing, dish
washing, etc.
Luncheon is served in the apartment
from 10 to j, and neatly packed
luncheons are provided for school chill
dren and others who desire them. Din
ner is served in the afternoon, accord
ing to Copenhagen custom, and tea I'M
til 10 in the evening.
The menu is so extensive and varied
that monotony can be easily avoided,
and the general kitchen has a list of
the preferences, and particularly of
the diversions, of every family, in
which it is gravely set down that one
family is never to be served with
mushrooms, second with cabbage,
third with rice pudding, and so on.
Individual as well as family prefer
ences are respected.
Dishes, plates. cups, etc, of the So
called unbreakable' ware are fur
nished by the management, but each
family may provide its own tableware
and have it washed in the general
kitchen, without, however, any guaran-
tee against breakage. Laundry work,
extra service and meals for occasional
guests, are furnished at low rates.
There is still another advantage to
be considered Housekeeping is very
inexpensive in the Flick apartment
house. The annual charges for rent,
heat. light, baths food and service, in
Guiding pneumatic sweeping, win
DOW cleaning and even shoe polishing,
are about:
For adults occupying Broom
apartment, 1920.
For adults occupying 4-room
apartment. $3.50.
For adults occupying a 4-room
apartment, $735.
For 4 adults occupying a 4-room
apartment, 1855.
For , adults occupying a broom
apartment, $500.
For adults occupying 5-room
apartment, $79j.
For 4 adults occupying a broom
apartment. 1890,
Small additional charges are made
for children and servants.
The food and other supplies are
abundant and of the very best quality
obtainable. Mr. Flick has found that
system of centralized housekeeping
makes this not only possible but very
cheap as well. The kitchen and other
service rooms in the basement are
equipped with the most approved ap-
paratus.
So successful has the first Of these
centralized apartment houses been that
Mr. Flick intends TO build several more
at once. Everybody in Copenhagen
seems TO want to live in one of them.
Tn connection with each centralized
apartment house Mr.. Flick purposes to
erect a house with large general play
rooms for school children and for small
children. Nurses will also be provided,
so that mothers who have occupations
away from home win be able to leave
their little ones in safekeeping.
Another event Of the Flick system IS