The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-27
THE MODEL KITCHEN.

Al housekeeperS' conference, held
at the agricultural college of the Uni
yersity OF Missouri. the experiment
station exhibited full-sized model of
a convenient kitchen. AS pointed out
by DR.. Edna ID. Day, Of the home econ
omics department. in her account OF
this project II is essential that the
necessary routine work of the home
should be made easy II the home
maker Is TO have time. energy and en-
thusiasin for her home life, and there
Is, perhaps, no place In the home
where more unnecessary time and
energy are expended than In the ordi-
nary kitchen, owing to faulty plan
ming and inconvenient construction
and furnishing.
A floor covering of oilcloth or
/ hnoleum is suggested as desirable,
since 1t can be kept clean easily by
hopping, and 1t does not require hand
and knee work with a scrubbing brush
A sanitary wall covering in imitation
Of thing is recommended which is APP
piled like ordinary wall paper. and
which is comparatively cheap, easily
cleaned and attractive.
In this model kitchen a model
kitchen cabinet, which provides many
conyeniences and has the advantage of
grouping working materials at hand
where they are needed, is placed where
there is good light, next to the stove,
on the one hand. and to the cold
pantry on the other, with the sink at
the back. The stove is also placed
where light is abundant.
The easily cleaned refrigerator, In
the conveniently placed cold pantry,
has an ice door that can be reached
from the outside, saving the kitchen
floor the dripping and footprints which
generally mark the iceman's path Out
side of the pantry window is box In
which food can be kept cold many
months in the year without the use of
ice. II well finished and painted the
color of the house on the outside, this
Of the house. The shelves In the
pantry afford room for storing food
materials.
The small table on rollers can be
moved into the cold pantry for pastry
work when the kitchen Is too hot. 1t
can conveniently find place between
the kitchen cabinet and stove when
frying or other cooking makes table
ut that point convenient. In this
kitchen the lowest shelf OF the china
pantry is convenient for the reception
| OF dirty dishes from the dining room
table. Here they can be scraped and
| piled and passed through the window
| on the shelf at the right of the sink.
| A window at the end OF the drain
board gives light for the dish wash
| ing and allows, IL the view be good,
chance for inspiration during the me-
chanlcal work OF dish washing. The
window into the cupboard over the
drain board may be made small. al
lowing simply for the passage inward
| of the piles Of clean dishes, or may
be made large enough to give access
| to the back of all the shelves In that
part of the pantry, allowing each dish
70 go directly from the dish towel TO
its place on the pantry shelf The
opening may be closed with glass or
wooden doors
At the farther end OF the kitchen Is
4 place for the ironing board near to
both stove and windows, but entirely
out Of the way Of other workers in the
room, 1t may be hinged to the wall at
one end and folded up into a wall
cabinet when not In use. Enclosed
shelves below may give place for the
irons, holders and wax A high stool
can be used 70 advantage at the sink
and kitchen cabinet. Every kitchen
should have at least one comfortable
chair,