430 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



A MODEL KITCHEN. 



As our contribution to the conference, the home economics de- 

 partment of the University has set up for exhibition the full-sized 

 skeleton of a model kitchen with all its furnishings in place. That 

 the home maker may have the time, energy, and enthusiasm to be 

 an inspiring companion to her husband and children, all possible 

 effort must be made to make easy the necessary routine work of the 

 home. There is perhaps no place in the home where more un- 

 necessary time and energy are used than in the ordinary kitchen. 



The effort has been made in this model kitchen to suggest how 

 steps, time and energy may be saved. A floor covering of linoleum 

 is easily kept clean by mopping — no hand and knee operation with 

 a scrubbing brush. For best wear, an inlaid linoleum should be 

 used, but even a cheap floor oilcloth that needs more frequent re- 

 placing is to be preferred to any wood that needs scrubbing. An 

 oiled hardwood floor is easily cleaned, but dark and unattractive. 

 Tiling is clean, but harder for the feet than linoleum. 



The wall is covered with Sanitas paper in imitation of tiling; 

 it is comparatively cheap, easily cleaned, and attractive looking. It 

 must be carefully hung to have no hiding place for vermin. Metal 

 tiling is more sanitary, but more expensive. It is cheaper, however, 

 than true tiling, and perhaps as satisfactory. 



A modern kitchen cabinet with all its conveniences of having 

 working materials at hand is placed where there is good light next 

 to the stove on one hand, and the cold pantry on the other, with the 

 sink at the back. 



The stove is well lighted. It is near the kitchen cabinet, the 

 sink, and not far from the dining room door. It is provided with 

 a hood or canopy to carry off the odors of cooking, and the house 

 is further safeguarded from odors by the possibility of a direct 

 draft from the windows across the room between the stove and the 

 other rooms. 



The easily cleaned refrigerator, in the conveniently placed cold 

 pantry, has an ice door that can be reached from the outside, saving 

 the kitchen floor the dripping and footprints which generally mark 

 the ice man's path. Outside of the pantry window is a box in 

 which food can be kept cold many months in the year without the 

 use of ice. If well finished and painted the color of the house on 

 the outside, this need not mar the exterior appearance of the house. 

 The shelves in the pantry afford room for storing food materials. 



