Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-02
DOMESTIC
- SCIENCE
Conducted by
Mrs. Alice Gilchell Kirk.
THE MODEL KITCHEN.
lcnntinned from Mondax.N


CONTINUED from Monday
Let us consider the location of a
kitchen. It should have a northern
exposure as a rule with window, and
also one on the east and west. This
keeps the kitchen cool in summer,
while southerly exposure makes
it very hot. Let other rooms have
this flood of sunshine. they need it.
but the kitchen does not. Proper
ventilation with windows and doors
on opposite sides to give circula-
ton of air will keep the kitchen cool,
airy and sanitary in winter or sum
mer.
An architect, ] believe, who has
tried to reduce the kitchen to
scientific basis so that every UNI
necessary step is eliminated, esti-
mates that for a family of five or
less kitchen 10x1O feet is of the
proper size, and for larger families
kitchen 12x12 feet should answer
all purposes and 14x14 feet should
seldom be built except for unusually
large houses and families.
The right relationship of the va
rious convenience and equipments
should be carefully thought out and
follow some particular plan. The
range-it may be gas, electric, fire
less, combined or separate-but what
ever it is have the best that can be
afforded to do the cooking well and
with as little heat and smoke in the
room as possible Place this in the
middle of the wall next to the dining
room or buffers pantry.
The sink should be placed in the
middle of the wall at right angles to
the stove with a window having a
pleasant outlook over it. If possible
a kitchen pantry or closet should be
placed between the stove and sink
for convenience and in the corner
wash bowl with running hot and cold
water for washing the hands and not
in the sink. These are four very i'm
portant parts of the house labora-
tory, very close together, and one can
cook for hours with very little effort
or steps,
The pantry closet or shelves for
kitchen should never run down lower
than thirty inches Of the floor. The
upper shelves should not exceed five
feet.
There should be some reform in
stoves which are built too low. Bend
ing up and down sometimes does a
woman good, providing she knows
how to do it, but constant STOPPING
over a low stove, table or sink is bad
indeed and there is every excuse for
a woman being cross, tired and sick
under such conditions. The top of
the stove should be on a level with
the waist and have the oven high or
low or on the side, | care not.
The kitchen sink should have no
woodwork to harbor grease, bugs,
dirt and germs, but should be of
enamel or sanitary stone or slate,
although the latter is too dark to be
attractive. Keep everything white
or as light as possible in the kitchen,
including yourself.
Never place the refrigerator in the
kitchen if it can possibly be avoid
ed, but build 1t into the wall with
an inside and outside entrance The
ice man is never a very welcome
guest in the kitchen, so plan, to have
the ice put in from the outside door.
/ have left the best for the last"
and that is the kitchen table. Have
no fancy turned legs TO catch dust
Have plainness and simplicity. This
table must be of sufficient height so
that the housekeeper does not have
to stoop while working. She must
stand well if she expects to last for
any length of time in her profession
of housekeeping. The top Should be
of glass. / am not saying if you
can afford it. Save some other place,
cut out a few sofa pillows, but have
this table perfect. There is where
the main work of the home centres
on this table. 1t is easily cleaned
and perfectly sanitary. This should
stand under or near a window and
hooks over the table for all the
small utensils used in cooking. One
or two drawers in the table for the
larger things which cannot be hung
up is all that is necessary. The light
should come from the centre of the
room and should be as good as any
in the house; one side light is some
times necessary.