Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-04-07
When You
Furnish Your
- Kitchen

THE furnishing OF your kitchen
should really take more
thought and attention than
the furnishing of any other room.
1t is something that cannot be done
haphazard or without much
thought. y may be that you have
not refurnished your kitchen for
years and that though you have
worked with it as it is without OBJ
vious difficulties. still 1t is badly
furnished and badly arranged.
The principle that you should
bear in mind. first and foremost,
in furnishing and equipping your
kitchen, is to have the things at
hand that are needed oftenest.
Take your kitchen sink for in
stance. You should study care
fully to arrange soap-dish, towel
rack, hook for your dish pan.
securing materials. etc, all within
easy reach when dish washing. Be-
side your kitchen stove you should
have all the essentials of cooking.
The salt and pepper should he
placed where you can reach them
with your left hand while stirring
meat gravy with your right.
There should be hooks on which
you may hang spoons and forks OF
the sort that you may need to stir
things you are cooking or 10 test
meat and vegetables. The frying
pan and saucepan that you use
most often should be convenient as
you stand before your range.
When You Bake
Take the place where you stand
when you make cakes. This should
be so arranged that you can secure
-four. sugar. baking powder, vanil-
la, cts. all without taking more
than step. II is not difficult 70
make these arrangements. and
once they are thought ont ii is no
harder 10 keep these arrangements
than those that are less convent
ent. II more than one person is
working in your kitchen il is al
ways worth while to explain your
system of keeping things. 1t there
is true system about il and If the
convenience of il can be made per-
fecuy apparent then il will be far
less difficult to get your coworkers
TO have respect for II than il would
be II il were random sort OF ar
rangement.
Perhaps you never have given
the question of your dish drain any
serious thought. Perhaps you
have just taken the drain you
found in your house and used it
without thinking that il might be
better or wondering IL ii was per-
fectly sanitary.
The Dish Drainer
However, a dish drain is Just one
OF the many little things about the
kitchen that may add to your work
II Il is not properly constructed.
II may mar or make the perfect
sanitary conditions under which
you wash your dishes.
Authorities say that the ideal
dish drain is made OF porcelain,
and that wooden dish drains may
in time become water soaked and
eventually absorb grease or other
wise become unclean. However,
the fact remains that a porcelain
dish drain beside the sink is 4 very
easy place for dishes 10 break. The
slippery dishes are apt TO slide
about on the drain and if ii is of
wood this sliding about does not
result in breakage. Your wood
drain will do very well If you see
that it is protected against the
action OF water by waterproof
paint or varnish OF some sort. II
you renew this hard surface every
three or four months, and this carl
be done at trifiing expense. you
can keep the wood ever from be-
coming water soaked.
In putting up dish drain beside
the sink it should always be in.
clined slightly toward the sink
enough to make sure that the wa
ter drains off TO the sink. but not
enough TO cause the dishes Il
slide off. The presence of grooves
helps the water to drain off quick
ly.
Some authorities on household
science say the drain should be 4
the left of the sink, leaving th'
right hand for the soiled dishes
However. you may agree will
others who prefer 10 have it TO thu
right OF the sink.