The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-28

right size for your needs? Have you
a collection of utensils which you
do not use often enough to warrant
them being kept about to gather
dust and fill your pantry shelves?
10 your kitchen provided with some
neat little cloth holders hung con-
Veniently at the Side of your stove,
or do you stain and soil your kitchen
towels and burn your hands when
lifting hot pans and dishes?
All Private Homes
For several years 1 lived in fur
nished apartments, and my eyes
were opened to many Of the incon-
veniences with which housekeepers
put up. These apartments all hap
pened to be private homes that we're
not regularly rented furnished, SO
think they were fairly representative
of most Women's kitchens. One of
these apartments seemed to have
a well-equipped kitchen in most re-
spects, but how any one could get
along without a tea kettle was more
than I could understand. 1 couldn't,
so I bought one.
Another kitchen was well supplied
with pans and kettles of various sizes,
but not single lid or cover could
be found in the whole establish
ment. How that houSekeeper had
managed without them, I do not
know. I suppose she just put her
vegetables on the stove and ''let 'em
boil"
And another kitchen (you see I
know whereof I speak when I talk
to you about kitchen equipment,
because I have had an opportunity
Ito meet many kitchen in my day')
was minus anything in the way,
shape or size of a mixing bowl.
Need Good Tools
The funny or strange part about
the whole thing is that usually it is
not because the much needed equip
ment is expensive that we do with
out it, but just because We are in
the habit of managing somehow
and continue to do SO. Why do
women get into this habit?
A workman would not be expected
TO do his work quickly or well, if he
were poorly equipped. If he neg
lected to get better tools, continue
ing to work with the same inefficient
Old ones. he would be a poor work
man.
dare say that no man would
stand for the inconveniences in ar
rangement or equipment to be found
in the average kitchen, without 60
ing on strike.
"Ah," you say, women are long
suffering. That is one Of their vir-
tues" But is it? In this case, at
least, ! think emphatically we may
say NO.
With most of us the trouble lies
in the fact that we fail to study our
housework on the lines of efficiency.
The idea seems to have been born
and bred in us that SO many hours
out of every twenty-four have to be
spent in the kitchen, so we have
just settled down to it without look
ing about us for any way of better
ing our working conditions or i'm
proving our methods as the good
workman does.
We are too prone to forget that
it Is "our job and that it requires
some Of our intelligence, as well as
some of our time and energy.
Even dishwashing loses some of
its drudgery and certainly may be
done more efficiently and quickly if
We pause to study our method of
clearing the table, stacking, wash
ing and drying.
Suits Small Family
And now I must mention some Of
the convenient and efficient equip
ment which have discovered in my
experiences in strange kitchens. I
distinctly remember the Joy that a
little self-bastnig, granite rooster
used to bring. It was of the size
that exactly suited the needs of a
small family-not the large variety
suitable for turkeys, only which COL
lectS dust on your pantry shelf fifty
one weeks out of the year. This
little rooster was designed for use.
just have priced some roasters
similar to it and fancy that it cost
about $3.50. It certainly was well
worth the price when one considers
how tender and juicy even the
cheaper cuts of meat were when
cooked in it. We could put our
meat and vegetables all in the same
rooster, either on top of the stove
or in the oven. And they would be
cooked to a queens taste.
Another convenience that I recall
was whole nest of lightweight
earthenware bowls that were con-
slant delight; and glass butter
dish Of the exact size to fit a pound
Of butter and keep it tightly and
neatly covered in your refrigerator
without taking up any needless
space. So you see furnished apart
ments do have some conveniences.
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