The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-01

More and more attention Is being
given to the furnishing and deco
ration of the kitchen as it becomes
more and more difficult to procure
servants, and more and more nee
essary for the housekeeper to spend
part of her time in that room, pre-
pairing meals for the family.
Women have come to realize that
ever the homeliest task can be
frightened if completed in attrac-
tive settings.
The result is that the kitchen is
rapidly becoming one of the most
interesting rooms in the house from
decorators point Of view, pnd
many and varied are the artistic
schemes for making this room at
tractive to look upon as we'll as con-
venient for the one who performs
the culinary tasks.
The range and the kitchen cabi-
nets are now part of the decorative
scheme. The modern housewife no
longer faces homely iron stove
that has to be BACKED frequently to
keep it from. rusting. The coal
bucket is gone for all time from the
kitchen of the modern household. In
their stead have come the enameled
electric and gas stoves, finished in
white or blue, which are easily kept
spick and span with little soap
and water.
The kitchen cabinets are painted
to match, and in some cases appro-
pirate stencil designes are added to
decorate what would otherwise be
an uninteresting expanse of flat col
or.
If preferred, a tiny stripe in the
dominating color of the room can
frame the panels of the cabinet
| doors, and this color is often re-
peated on the spice jars which lend
themselves nicely as ornamental as
we'll as very useful objects.
The color scheme for the kitchen
is largely matter of individual pref
erence and depends somewhat on the
location of the room. If it has
southern exposure and is filled with
light and sunshine, pale blue or
green or soft gray make very good
looking colors for the walls. If 1T
is on the north and not so well light+
ed, buff or white would be more APP
propriate. Linoleum in CORES
! ponding shade should cover the
floor.
The first requisite for the kitchen
is cleanliness and definite sugges-
ton that everything about it is per-
fectly sanitary. Nothing suggests
this better than white paint. The
wood work should be painted white
and the furniture, including the
tables, chairs, cabinets and stools,
should all be white and kept scrub
bed and spotless.
In this room as in any other all
the necessary things can he SO Sc
lected as to add to the interest of
the room. All crockery should be Of
one color and as nearly the same
design as possible. A row Of blue
and white, or yellow and white
bowls, jars and pitchers properly
arranged along a kitchen shelf can
be just as decorative as the bric-a-
brac in the drawing room and per-
haps more interesting because it is
more unexpected. @sH,
Rows of jams and jellies can also
be made to serve purpose on the
kitchen shelf before they reach their
ultimate destination on the dining
room table. There Is no reason why
the housewife should not select
glasses and jars for her fruits and
preserves that will be uniform. She
can also buy good looking labes
and put them on carefully. This
does not take great deal Of extra
time. 1t only means bit of fore
thought and the result will be quite
worth while.
Even such homely things as the
pots and pans lend themselves nicely
to the entire decorative scheme and
If chosen of enamel and aluminium
ware and hung on hooks properly
placed about the kitchen walls they
add their bit in carrying out the
big idea.
OF course the greatest possibilities