New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
Every Modem appliance and
Labor-Saning Device that
Makes Howework Easy

start at the same left-hand corner as we did
in our tour Of the electric kitchen?
Here is big white porcelain refrigerator,
the special marvel of which is that it is
made all in one piece, SO that there are no
cracks or crevices for the germs to gather in.
Next to the refrigerator is long triple win
dow, with spotless white scrm curtains and
a wide sill filled with towering plants. Under
this sill, as in the electric kitchen, is the we'll
filed bookshelf, and the white wooden rocking
chair, which constitutes the "rest corner"
THE TABLE ON THE WALL.
Beside this is a brand new kitchen table the
first of its kind that has ever been shown 1t
is made of white porcelain enamelled in
one piece on heavy cast iron. 1t is thirty-six
inches high, forty-five inches long and twenty
inches wide. 1t has no legs, but is attached TO
the wall by concealed hangers, and can be set
at any height
The space underneath this table is utilized
for the economic fireess cooker, which is one of
Miss Dormouse's special pets. She tells US that
she cooks the most delicious Boston baked
beans here every week.
To one side of this kitchen table Miss Dor
mouse has attached her bread mixer. In the
corner beyond this is tall cupboard for
brooms and mops, with a smaller closet at the
top for busters, furniture polish and the like.
Attached to one side of this is the coffee mill,
and built into the wall alongside is gas in
Generator for burning the garbage, which must
be source of endless joy to the tidy housewife.
The sink comes next, set under long, low
window, with the same scrim hangings. This
is not so long as the one in the other kitchen,
as it has only one drain board, on the left-hand
side
We argue the question as to which is the
more convenient right or left hand drain
board, but we come to no enthusiastically
agreeing with Sir Roger de Coverley that there
is much to be said on both Sides"
Mr.. Nash, of the Standard Sanitary Com
pany, who has drifted in during the discussion,
tells us that his company sells nearly twice as
many sinks with left hand as it does with
right hand drain boards-which ought to settle
the matter.
CUPBOARD AND CABINET
Next the sink is another tall cupboard with
four doors, in which both the china and the
cooking dishes are kept. This is seven feet
high, so the top shelf. which is only little
over six feet from the floor, is within easy
reach. The door to the dining room comes
next, and on the other side of this is the gas
range, equipped with all the latest devices
Then comes the kitchen cabinet, which is al!
most the same as the one in the electric kitchen.
although of different make.
It has one point which seems an improvement
over the other This is a shutter which covers
the front, on the same principle as the roll
top desk. However, the flour can has to be re-
moved when it is filed whereas the one in the
other cabinet comes out on crane-so there
YOU are! Who shall say which is the better!
If this kitchen should ever acquire its fourth
WALL the service table, which now occupies shs
middle of the room. would be placed against it.
This is quite different from the one in the cleo
trio kitchen. You have a feeling somehow raS5
you are meeting an old friend, and when Miss
Dormouse opens out the two leaves, which were
folded on the top, Nancy locates it immsdi
ately.
"My goodness alive." she excams chow I
wish could reproduce her delightful Southern
specify "That's stage prop Don't you re-
member, the faithful Tompkins wheels it in at
the beginning of the second act, and then he
opens it out and spreads the lace tablecloth
down before he tiptoes to the door on the left
and tells John Drew that breakfast is served"
PIE WITHOUT EFFORT
Miss Dormouse has opened the kitchen cabi-
net and is making apple pie. We watch her
as she stands there within easy reach of all
her tools. One turn of the handle and
the flour Sits out on her white enameed
mixing board-no more STOPPING down into
-four barrel or bag; across the shortest
way Of the kitchen to the refrigerator for
butter and lard. The rolling pin and spoon
are in the drawer of the cabinet, the pie plate
Is in the cupboard underneath, and when the
pie is ready for the oven, it is only one step to
the gas range. She does not even stoop TO do
this, for the oven is high one. And after 1t
is baked step from the range through the
door TO the dining table.
Makes cooking a joy" says Nancy, and
tired looking woman who stands near answers:
Cooking? 1t makes life joy!S
One of the most encouraging things about the
exhibit is the way that the men appreciate its
efficiency.
They stand sometimes for quarter Of an
hour in front of one Of these model kitchens.
studying out the why's and wherefores of this
or that arrangement. At the close in at least
nine cases out of-we say dozen-comes this