Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-10-18
KIND OF A KITCHEN
MOTHER ALWAYS LIKES
ModernIy Equipped Kitchen Would
Enable Housewife to Enjoy
Life More.
BY LAURA B. BREEZE,
Department of Farmers Institutes of
the University of Wisconsin.

ItC oIiNCioily VI "IoSOHoih'
The kitchen is the most important
room in the house. Here mother must
spend much Of her time and unless
care is taken too much of her ener-
gies.
Is it not of value to make this rooms
most convenient to conserve the
strength and time of the most precious
member of the family? Too many
mothers are slaves to the routine of
kitchen work tOday-a part of the rea
son due to improper tools for work and
incOnveniently arranged equipment.
If women, working In such kitchens
registered their steps they would finG
they were walking many miles q day
and needless ones too. No wonder
night finds them footsorp, weary I'm
body and mind
Think of the value to the family, If
the kitchen work was accomplished i'm
half of the time and with half the en-
ergy sometimes expended! 1t would
mean more time for mother with her
children, more time for the story, the
song and the games for them for
recreative changes for herself and for
the cooperative work towards commu~
nifty betterment.
Sometimes the "easy' kitchens can
be arranged for without much expense
by drawing pieces related to each 9th
er together.
When preparing meals the work Ia
ble-the stove and side table are need
ed-and steps can be saved by having
these near together and in the order
used. The dish is prepared at ta,le,
then the stove is needed next and the
side table neXt-in order to cool, dish
up, or garnish the food before sending
to the dining table. If these pieces are
arranged in this order there will be
no retracng Of steps required in that
process of work.
For clearing away meals, the sink
and cupboard for dishes should be near
each other and the process of dish
washing carried on from sink towards
cupboard. In a small kitchen the sink
with an expansive table shelf attached
is found very convenient in the center
Of the room. Many of the kitchens in
the farm homes are large in floor area,
and steps can be saved only by group
ing the equipment in some manner as
suggested above. The other part of
these large Kitchens fartheSt from din
ing rOOm) may be converted into a.
sewing corner, or laundry with the fit
ting equipment for either one cOncenr-
trated there.
Small cupboards or shelves near each
large piece, to keep the smaller uten.-
sils and supplies needed at each place.
will be found great step savers. If 81
kitchen cabinet is not the table used.
some cupboards for the dry supplies
should be built over the kitchen table
for convenience sake.
Stove filters, asbestos mats, kettle
covers, etc, should be kept on hooks
or racks near the stove. Cleaning pow
ders, soap, scrapers, etc, needed at
sink will save steps, if kept on a shelf
above the sink.
Arrangement of equipment is great
essential for making work easy and
every housewife should decide what Is
the very best arrangement for her
kitchen. Light and good ventilation
are requisites in the kitchen, mother
likes best.
Dark rooms are depressing, gloomy
and unsanitary. Tighten the walls and
woodwork by using light-cOlOr paint.
Buff, pale green, tan, gray, or creams
are good kitchen cOlOrs.
Linoleum Is the best covering for
the floor, it looks attractive, is COM
Portable under the feet, and is most
easily kept clean. 1t will eliminate
the back-breaking scrubbing for moth
er, who likes a spotless floor.
In mothers kitchen, let US have a
chair to use at sink and table, when
possible-and comfortable easy chair
for a few minutes rest between pieces
Of work-a table with few magazines
and paper handy near her comfortable
chair.
The housewife who accomplishes her
work with the least expenditure Of
time, energy and sweet temper-usu-
ally makes the best homemaker. 1t is
only the foolish, who can scott at the
wisdom of the housewife who UNDER
takes to remove the drudgery from her
housekeeping.