New-York tribune., 1922-01-22
A Kitchen of No Re6rets

next to decide is whether it will be bv the wee
or month
The old idea was that kitchen was hid
gossipy place. with neighbors dropping in an1
comfortable chairs where you could sit Will
the roast was turning. To-day the kitchen
place to stay in just as little as possible. N
gossiping. no back stairs; when you 20 /
there now you go with knife in one hand al
a schedule in the other.
81 planned the kitchen myself and had
built according to my own IDEAS said Nd
Croy. Its small purposely, for this is il
day Of the little kitchen The smaller il
better-it saves steps. The perfect kitchd
would be where you could stand in the mid
die and run the whole thing without movrd
The kitchen with rocking chair belongs witt
the pioneers. The kitchen cores ponds to til
furnace room; one furnishes heat. the othd i
food. No one would want a rocking chair il
the furnace room, yet wife will post sucl
a chair in the kitchen and think she has addeI
touch of domesticity.
First. in planning kitchen get youI
sink up high. Plumbers seem to have con-
stitutonal antipathy to raising them abop|
Your knees. They seem to think the propd
position for woman to assume in washnj
dishes IS that Of looking through a keyhc]
Instead Of that it should be up so high thd
she has no STOPPING II do. And by all mead
have wooden drainboard Otherwise yoz
dishes will lcok as il you had taken thel
to summer camp
Mrs. Croy's is ! model for small FAM
kitchen. The dishes come Oh. of the builtj
kitchen cupboard and slide door in the WI
permits them to go into the buffers pant
without an extra move. The drainbcard
hinged. and under it is an electric washeI
thus affecting a great saving in space.
I'VE can wash all our dishes in six minutl
and we have been doing it for two years, an
without putting our hands in the water as|
Mrs. Croy. Mrs. Croy is the wife Of HaneT
Croy, the writer, and she herself is thesan't
of four books OH housekeeping and a spec'as'|
lst IN kitchen mechanics.
when we are ready the maid turns on 'n'|
water. which is automatically heated IN u'|
basement. and when the dishes have peeI
washed she opens the drain in the WASHER
and another day Is over. Not pint OF "a''|
has been carried. the linoleum has not oes'I
stopped. The silverware must be wiped. Of
otherwise it will oxdize, and it is best 10 "'ps|
the glasses, but the plain dishes may stay ~
lhe washer till morning and then De sne'S, g
The dishes come through with spea1
luster, as the water has been 50 mu'" WI. ~,
than one can bear her hand IN tnat e'es
on brilliancy without the application "
drying CLOTH :.
Food she cooks in a tireless cooker anu - l
steam pressure THAT is the newes' A's'', ~
said Mrs Croy, cooking under s'eah'
toughest rooster fairly melts away anu 'As
that would take hours of rs den'a"' .,.;l
steam, only few MINUTES. For si'" 80
use the freless cooker for last the pie's.s, sos
One of the things that Mrs. Croy is pluaas
of all was once blank, staring wall -.s,,
wall should be made to pay Its own ]. .on,e
said, and set about finding way " ~. xralI
thing out of our blank wall. Aions =" ';,o;nI
l put two rows Of glass contaihsis' ,...r th|
on metal brackets, and in when w foodI
non-perishable foodstuffs - break1"9s .-hte
beans, peas and so on. find use lOl :. .'s smo|
jars. They open at the bottom, 50 lpa' H. n
any ingredient needed in cooking ~"
by a simple twist of the w. :, 81
small door in the wall the milk cou'es -
morning without the miikinan
around :, well
II have laundry fitted up )uss ZION :. ID
is the kitchen. give my maid sss. nd al
as if she were working in factoly'
ask is that she keep factory hours - md
AS a result the Croy home KNOW. 10. sos q
problem. There are no outgoing sa's nav hs|
no banging doors. When maids !eass they :
happy expression on their faces rid,
either going on vacation or to be 'ps''