The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
PLAN THE KITCHEN
ITS ARRANGEMENT A MATTER or
 UTMOST IMPORTANCE.
Makes All the Difference in the World to the Housewife Who Manages to Get Along Without
 Servants.

The internal arrangements of
 house have great deal to do with
 the comfort of living without serv'
 ants. So much did we feel this to be the case that we determined to build
 our own cottage when we settled to
 adopt this mode of life. In so many houses the inconvenient position of staircases, the length of passages. the
 relative position of one room to an
 other, leads to far more work than there really should be any need for. The same may be said of badly de signed fireplaces, awkward arrange ments for washing and bathing. and of the many other details with which work is connected in daily life.
 In arranging the rooms downstairs the relative position of kitchen, store cupboards, pantry and larder will be the most important consideration This is where the work is done. and the movements between cooking stove, saucepan shelves, sink. store cupboards and larder should be re- duced to as few steps as possible. A study of this just makes all the differ ence when you do your own work. The larder should face the north, so that it is always cool, and its. shelves should be of slate. The cooks table should have store cupboards behind it against a wall up to the ceiling, with shelves II inches wide, and with slid ing doors in front. Below the table should be cupboards for utensils. pie Is-A 4a1y fre nd so on. Close by should be other shelves for saucepans. frying pans. kettles and so forth.
 The cooking stove should be placed so that you can walk around it. It should stand upon a tiled hearth. and the walls at back and sides should be tiled. Rails should be fixed at back and sides on which to air linen. which is then kept all out of the way and free from dust The prettiest way tc arrange the cooking stove is to copy the Dutch fashion and have a wooden paneled canopy above it. with a short valance hanging down to the plate rack; on this canopy can be fixed Delft plates, bowls or the pretty little Dutch figures.
 Top ventilation should be arranged for above all cooking stoves; heat and fumes are thus carried out of the room at once. Further, the skylight afford ing this ventilation should be open in more than one direction; then which ever way the wind is blowing there will always be "a lee side apdlno down draught-
 The sink should be fireclay and en- ameled white inside. It should he rath- CT deep; then 1t can be used for wash ing smaller articles at home Drain ing boards of whitewash should be placed at either side of the sink. and these should have some semicircular grooves cut in them, not V-shaped; the latter hold water. The sink should be only step or two from the cook ing stove; then saucepans can be rinsed out at once after tie dish is cooked. If nothing in a saucepan is allowed to catch fire or burn, or to dry hard, they are no trouble at all to keep perfectly clean and in good or der. The long time that saecepans last is one of the most noticea--e ad- vantages of living without servants. Saving of expense is effected in many little ways like this, which are difficult to detect in detail, but the effect of which can be easily seen when the quarters expenditure Is analysed.