The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-22

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mothers. 1t is a question to be con-
sidered just why a girl prefers to sit
all day in Il dingy office, or toll from
about eight o'clock until six behind a
counter than to remain at home and
cook three meals, which requires not
niore han our hours of her time. /
Bui nearly all Of them do. It may
be that cooking has been looked upon
as a servants job and a woman feels
that she is going below the standards
required for ladies when she enters the |
Kitchen. This may have some weight, !
and perhaps 1t is the reason that is
furnished the public, but back Of it
AL, I think there is a greater cause;
and that is, in the greater per cent.
of the homes today, the kitchen is the
most u~nattractive room in the house.
one cannot blame a girl who loves
pretty things and appreciates the
atmosphere of a tasty room to avoid
tho average kitchen of today. But
maybe / am going too far, but you
Mothers take this and think it over
when you are trying to coax your
daughters into our kitchen.
never saw but one or two kitchens
where pictures were hung upon the
wall, and why not pictures in the
Kitchen too? The only woman l know
who keeps flowers in her kitchen is
a cotton mill woman in Charlotte.
There may be others, many others,
but ! do not know them. In fact,
this woman las the cleanest kitchen
] have yet ever seen. Not that l do
not know some tidy ho~usekeepers,
but l believe the most sanitary cook
of my acquaintance would vote for
this little widow in the mill.
She not only keeps things spotlessly
clean, but she has made her kitchen
attractive and convenient. To her
the kitchen work never seems a
d~rudgery. She is one of the mode
housekeepers / know, for h keeps
to the letter the rule of "a place for
everything and everything in its
place Many times l ave been
through her kitchen, and every time
jt has the appearance of having been
just scrubbed. Every piece of nickel
on her stove is rubbed to shining
brightness, and each spoon, and cook
iar utensil has it's special heck on a
rack in a convenient corner Some
time ago she bought an oil stove
which she uses now instead of the
range, and the latest addition to her
kitchen is Il cabinet. The picture of
her kitchen accompanies this story
and it tells the story of her n%eatness
more than I can do. In it is "a model
OF neatness and cleanliness, and there
are not only cotton mill women bat
hundreds of homes on the outside
hat can take a lesson from it. l once
took a friend Of mine to see this
widow as l wanted her to see the
Kitchen, and she laughingly confideC
as we went away, "she makes m
ASHAMED of myself and this frien(
was a model Kitchen keeper.
There are a number of cotton mil
women who are las neat as pins 81
to speak, and there is a noticeable
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from the old custom and adopt th'
convenient It is a very usua
thing o to see a cotton mill famil.
owning a kitche cabinet and buyin,
other things that lessons the work o
the woman.
Bungalows for Operatives in
Albemarle.
The W~iseassett mill in Albenaarl
has stepped aside from the custom O
cotton mills by erecting several bun
galows for the operatives, n thes
bungalows would do credit to an
town or city in the State. Some Q
them have the rustic rock und
tons with the ehimneys built of rocl
on the fancy brick structure. All c
them are different in appearance an
they range from five to nine room!
They are really things of beauty an
are much superior to some or tn
houses on a fifty front lot in some {
the larger towns where the rente
makes you think he is comforting
favor when he asks $25 Oh $40 Pc
month. They are finished up yer
attractive on tie inside, as the who
plan has been to follow the bungalO
type. Some of them have he rust
mantels or the fancy brick, while a
Of them have the wood fibre plaster
ing and are equipped with electr
lights and water. These houses Wi
rent at the ate Of $1.25 a room
month. h secretary, Mr.. j. !
Groves, says that these houses wei
built on an average of $162 a roor
which is only a little in excess Of IL
contractors price for the plain co
tage without paint and electric light
Mill Men Own Machine.
The alitOnnohile agents have done