The Washington times., 1934-10-17
HOMES
HAVE HEALTH
KITCHENS
Prominent Builders Praise
Electric Equipment for
This important Room

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washington, department stores,
electrical dealers and others are
providing appealing demonstra-
tons of electric kitchens which
may be viewed, inspected and
even used by those who visit the
establishments where they are To-
Gated, many Of Washlngton's
prominent builders are, and for
two years have been, featuring
electric health kitchens in their
new homes open for public exhibit
and offered for sale in all Sec
tons of the Greater washington
area.
In addition to these homes
built to sell, many Washington
ians and Maryland users Of cleo
tricity are specifying inclusion of
electric health kitchens in new
homes which they are having
erected under contract for per-
sonal occupancy.
In Hundreds Of Homes
Although new residence con-
struction has been at a low ebb
during the last two and a half
years, nearly $50 of the new
homes of washington have been
equipped with electric health
kitchens. These homes are in
every section of Washington and
the Maryland area supplied with
electricity by the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Company.
Newly built electric kitchen
health homes are found in Rock,
vile, Colesville. Brookeville, Glen
Echo, Riverdale. Takoma Park,
Silver Spring, Kenwood, College
Park. University Park. Clinton,
Foxhall Village, and many other
towns and villages. They are nu,
merous in both the District and
Maryland sections of Chevy Chase.
There are also many new homes
which feature electric health
kitchens in the North Petworth,
Brookland and Southeast sections
of washington. In fact, every sec.
ton of the city and surrounding
territory in which there has been
new building to any extent in the
last two and a half years boasts
a large percentage Of homes with
electric kitchens.
An electric health kitchen is
one in which all working devices
are operated electrically and
which is scientifically planned for
both work and popular informal
living. Cabinets are designed to
provide storage space for every.
thing kept in the kitchen. They
are located at strategic points in
the room, eliminating unnecessary
steps. The equipment for the
preservation, preparation and
serving of food and for the clean
ing of dishes, pots and pans is
also properly situated in the room.
Features of Kitchen
The electric health kitchen con-
tains the cool, quick, clean. elec-
trio range; an automatic electric
refrigerator; an electric clock
placed so that it will be most use
full; in practically all cases an
electric ventilating fan to keep
the air in the room clean and
cool; and in many cases an elec-
trio dishwasher, the miracles of
which can only be known to a
user. Many electric kitchen health
homes are also equipped with
electric water heaters or with oil.
burning water heaters operated
by electricity.
All electric health kitchens have
an adequate supply of properly
located convenience outlets to
which are attached food mixers,
coasters, grills, percolators, tea
Samovars, and numerous other ef-
ficient electrical devices.
The illumination of electric
health kitchens is always Scien-
tifically planned. The entire re-
sponSibility of providing light is
not left to the well-chosen switch
controlled center light. over the
sink another light of proper de-
sign is located. Frequently, built
in lighting which is a part of the
cabinet work furnishes illumina-
ton directly upon the spaces on
which the usual kitchen work is