Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-04

towns, and it suggests not a
way to solve. but way 10
avoid, the servant problem for
the small family. The young married
couple or the old married couple. or the
household of unmarried women, can have
all the comforts of home and a few of
the discomforts in a kitchenette apart
ment. Children, of course. take up too
much room to be happy In such small
quarters.
There are two sorts of kitchenette
apartments. One is that in the newly
built house. There the kitchenette is
small closet opening from one of the
rooms. 1t contains an enameled sink.
tiny gas stove. and shelves and hooks.
Perhaps, too, there is small ice chest.
and perhaps there is a drop leaf on the
inside of the closet door. so that when
the door is open the leaf can be let down
to form a table.
The other sort of kitchenette apartment
is that in an old house. Perhaps an old
dwelling house has been cut up into
suites of furnished or unfinished rooms
In a corner of living room. perhaps
behind big screen, little kitchenette
is installed-a small enameled basin with
running water and little gas stove
a solid table Or perhaps a big closet is
converted into a kitchenette. Or per-
haps it is installed in a dark dressing
room, Of which there were SO many in
houses Of two generations ago.
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A younger old or medium aged-house-
wife can manage easily without a servant
in one of these modern apartments
whether 1t is in an old or a new house
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specified time each day go with the house
But even without them, a woman can be
hired to come In for short time each
day, or for half day week to keep the
floors and rugs and windows clean.
The laundry can be done outside, either
by a reliable woman, in her own home.
or by laundry whose methods are
known not to depend too largely on strong
cleansing agents. The janltor, bellbo3
or elevator boy usually can be hired to
wash windows and beat rugs when he is
of duty. And so the small family can
have a coy little home all their OWN.
where they can eat and sleep and live
with all the privacy of country estate,
without any worry or hard work.
In planning the furnishing of small
kitchenette apartment, it is usually bet
ter to call the room on which the
kitchenette opens the living room rather
than the dining room. Eat in the living
room, rather than live in the dining
room.
One young married woman went 10
housekeeping in a three-room-and-ba bath
kitchenette apartment One room she
furnished comfortably as guest room.
so that her small quarters should be no
barrier to overnight guests. Another
room was her own and her husband
bedroom. The third room was the living
room. 1t was fairly large. and the
kitchenette opened at one end.
She used a drop-leaf mahogany table
for the meals, and between times she
pushed it back against the wall, whore
it stood with a couple of brass candle
sticks and brass bowl of growing
ferns until ii was needed again.
There were four straight. match
ing mahogany chairs. Two of them took
I'D stations against the walls when they
were not in use. One was in each bed
room until the presence of guests made
1t necessary to bring 1t into the living
room at meal time. There was
mahogany chest in which the youns
housewife kept all her household linen.
and this served for a seat or place TO
put magazines and sewing under a NV
ing room window,
All the dishes were piled neatly GA the
shelves in the little kitchenette. and the
fiat silver was kept in bags, marked off
in little pockets each large enough foi
one spoon or knife or fork. which were
tackled on the inside of the kitchenette
door. There was small table in
corner of the living room which held
silver teakettle and few other pieces of
heavy silver that had been among the
brides gifts.
The rest of the furniture was of the
regulation sort found in any ones living
room.
The young husband could brin: guests.
expected or unexpected. home without be-
ing afraid that he would put a too
great tax on his housekeeping Wife. Tile
top shelves of the small kitchenett" We're
stocked with emergency food and. besid.
that, the homework was so light tllat
the housewife delighted in always serH-
ing dinner dainty and adequate enough
for any one.
The kitchenette housekeeper learns
many. little tricks
For one thing, she has her emergency
shelf well stocked, and as soon as one
emergency package is used she orders a
duplicate. She has canned tomatoes.
which can quickly be turned, with the help
of evaporated milk, into tomato soup. ano
with the addition of breadcrumbs, into
scal1oped tomatoes. She has canned
soups on hand. She has canned peas and
corn, and string and lima beans. She has
canned asparagus which can quickly be
creaIueO, ana as QulChly anu
dressed with French dressing for salad.
She has instantaneous cocoa or chocoias.
to make a quick luncheon beverage. Sn.
always has a jar of grated cheese on
hand to sprinkle over potatoes. macaroni.
or crackers and toast in her small oven.
and she is usually supplied with cheese
for q late Welsh rabbit. Canned fish and
meat. and jars of bacon and dried beef
make the preparation of lunch and break
fast dainties easy