The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-06
HAL
BOYLE
SAYS

NEW YORK R-What this coun-
try needs is a good, cheap, two
kitchen home.
The two-car garage has become
popular even with families with
only one automobile, because, as
a husband explained:
at saves repair bills. My wife
now has a $3.50 chance of backing
our bus out without losing either a
fender or a garage door,"
The two-bathroom home also has
saved many marriages. 1t gives a
man a $3.50 chance he can take a
shower without having to hack his
way through forest of his wife's
personal laundry-stockings, slips
and brassiereS-all dangling damp.
l. y from the bathroom fixtures.
The two-bathroom house and the
two-car garage have made for
safer, more peaceful living. The
crying need now is for the two.
kitchen home.
The reason is obvious. Just as
wives used to (and still do clutter
up the single bathroom, husbands
are now cluttering up the single
kitchen.
A mans home has always been
his castle, but until recent years
his wife had the kitchen as a
throne room wherein she feigned
as absolute queen. No one ques-
toned her authority, and a hus-
band dared enter only on invita-
tion-to help dry the dishes.
Then some scalawag got men in
terested in cooking. At first they
only toyed with salads or broiled
steaks. But you know how men
with hobbies are-they like to out
do each other. Soon they were bak-
ing pies and stewing up fancy ex.
otto recipes that would Sicken a
hungry goat. The, pots and pans
turned blue. The messes they made
of the kitchen sink were enough to
turn a plumbers hair gray.
Today some wives who never
really liked to cook still let the
amateur chef they are married to
do the stove-work. They eat his
burnt offerings dutifully, and go on
hoping for better times.
But lot of housewives enjoy
their kitchen chores, and would
like to get their husbands back into
the living room where they belong,
Rebellion is growing among these
ladies. At recent gathering of the
girls l overheard the following:
"Why does a man need 81 spices
for every dish? i finally told my
husband, What do you want me
to keep in the pantry-food or
spices? There isn't room for
BOTH >"
You should be married to my
husband. He brought home enough
garlic to last us so years. He even
wants to put it in the baby's
formula-SayS it builds red blood. -
my husband tries to pour chlor-
ophyn in the mashed potatoes. He
thinks a colorful dish is more ap-
petizing."
| And a fourth wife said grimly:
Il finally put my foot down and
told my husband fatty he would
either have to stay out of my kitch.
en- or give me a divorce. And do
you know what the stinker did? He
asked me to give him a few days
to decide"
But the male invasion of the
kitchen has gone too far to be re.
PEELED by feminine force, logic,
threats, tears or soft endearments.
II is easier to break a man of
opium putting than to cure him of
the heady taste of his own cooking.
No, the only answer is the two
kitchen home-one kitchen for ma
ma to fry a pork chop in, the other
where the man of the house can
dream up his latest oriental deli
cacy, steamed gazelle. drowned in
wine sauce, and served on a green
grape leaf swimming in mint jelly.
Garlic added to the individual
taste).
! The only problem in the future
two-kitchen home will be how to
divide up the new culinary equip
ment. But any husband worth his
celery salt ought TO be generous
enough to say:
''0kay, Mama, you can have a
fur coat, but remember get the
first electric dish washer for my
kitchen"
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