The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-20
SLICK Up KITCHEN
Artistic Decoration Should Not
Be Overlooked There.
Blue and White Match Enamel
Pots and Pans-Loyely.
BY MARGARET MASON.
(Written for the Topeka State JOurnal.)
nal.)

The new cooks had the kitchen done
With blue its motif note
Because it matches up you see
Patrolman Caseys coat.
New York, Oct. 20.-When the busy
little 1917 decorator got through with
the library by hanging it in cloth Of
gold and carelessly tossing a black
velvet cushion with golf tassels on the
black and white marble floor. and de-
flying anybody to find a book in the
place, he called it a dream and felt he
had beautifully acquitted himself of a
perfect home.
He had overlooked, however, the
most vital spot of all in these days of
the servant famine. A spot where the
lady of the manor must needs spend
most of her hours of erstwhile ease
the kitchen.
A kitchen specialist was at once
called in and, when he had finished
with the spot, one simply had to plead
with the lady of the manor to come
out of the kitchen before she would
tear herself away from the fascinating
place.
Paint Brush Turns the Trick
It's time the kitchen was taken in Il
decorative hand. Even if you are for
tunate enough tos have a little servant
in your home, it makes the odds better
for your keeping her if you have u
color scheme that matches her aura or
conventional pattern lineoleum that
appeals to her conventional soul
If you have your own house then
your super kitchen has tiled walls of
course and a red tile floor, but even il
you must struggle in an apartment
with plaster walls and floors of wood
do not despair. Take. your courage
and a paint brush well in hand and
when your walls have been done a
cruelean hue and the woodwor1
white enamel, then put blue and white;
linoleum on the floor and proceed to
make sash curtains for the windows of
bright blue and white check bingham
with the checks of half-inch dimen-
siOns. A pink Seranium in blue and
white flower pot on the window ledge,
a collection of white mixing bowls
with bright blue band, pots, pans and
sauce pans of bright blue enamel, blue
and white scalloped oilcloth on the
sh lives, the same pattern as the
Iinoleum, an oval braided blue anu
white rag rug on the floor and a
Windsor chair, white enameled, and
you have a blue and white kitchen De
luxe that would tempt most any cook to
stay and break your blue and white
crockery. EvSn blue Monday would
fade to insignificance in such fasci-
natingly blue and white confines.
yellow and White for Dark One.
On the other hand a yellow and
white kitchen wiz. bring the sunshine
into the darkest Harlem flat. Paint
the walls in sunshine yellow with the
woodwork white, but then go a bit
farther with your ochre tints and
paint the stepladder, chair, the table,
the kitchen cabinet all in a golden
glow, stopping short only of the stove
and sink
Yellow and white Japanese toweling
makes quaint and appropriate sash
curtains for the windows of the yell
low kitchen and as a final finishing
touch either a canary in willow cage
may swing in the window or tor
toise shell cat bask in the sunshiny
glow of the table and chairs. Don't,
however, feel you must go the limit
and have both, as there would un-
doubtedly be a clash and Earring
note. Ultimately, however, there is
no doubt but that both cat and bird
would blend beautifully together.
Oh, No! Don't Throw Them Away.
For the floor of the yellow kitchen
Enoleum to simulate a hard wood
parquet floor is best a1tho yellow and
white patterned lineoleum is also
good. Don't throw out your perfectly
good aluminium or enamel kitchen
utensils because they clash with your
sunshine color scheme, but if you do
have to buy new ones anyway either