1886 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



937 



seasons and opportunities when a man can 

 lay up money and sit still, and rest a great 

 part of the time ; but such things do not 

 occur often, nor do they last long, and I 

 think it is a wise provision of Providence 

 that such is the case. The world is full of 

 tradesmen who can not make a living, or 

 who succeed in making oTily a very poor liv- 

 ing; and I believe it is often the ca.se. that 

 the sole reason of this is. because they don"t 

 get up and make things go. It has been 

 many times intimated, that the supjily-deal- 

 ers are the lucky ones in our chosen pursuit; 

 but I tell you, niy friends, there are about as 

 many supply-dealers who fail, as there are 

 honey-raisers. To succeed in any industry, 

 one must not only work all day. but he must 

 use his brains in the night time, and after 

 the lalK)rs of tlie day are past. He nnist 

 carve out his fortune liyharrl work and hard 

 knocks. When seasons are poor and prices 

 are low. he must economize and cut down 

 out-goes, and he must learn to do il until he 

 comes clear down to hard-pan. When he 

 learns to weather the storms he will probably 

 be ready to make hay when the sun shines. 

 Sitting on a nail-keg "will never build up a 

 business anywhere. " 



A MODEL KITCHEN. 



I'KOK. COOK TELLS US SOMETHING ABOUT THE 

 CONVENIENCES OF THEIU OWN KIT(;HEN. 



}KEAD with much interest Mr. Terry's descrip- 

 tion of his bath-tub. Such articles are i.iood 

 seed, which may not lodge in soil to always 

 take root; but when they do produce they bear 

 such e.Ycellent fruit that they arc always 

 opportune. 



Now, Mr. Editor, our house was already l)ujlt, and 

 there was no available room over the kitchen or 

 elsewhere to be used exclusively as a bath-room. 

 I presume there ai-e many other such homes. We 

 —wife and I— are full partners, and we concluded to 

 make our kitchen the bath-room, especially as we 

 could at the same time greatly increase its con- 

 veniencies in other respects. Let me say, that I 

 married one of those very girls that Mrs. Chaddock 

 writes about. This wife, except when we have 

 company, does her own housework. She prefers 

 this. The work is far better and more economical- 

 ly done. We all enjoy hav'ing our home wholly to 

 ourselves, except in times of company; and then, 

 again, it gives opportunity to give our two chil- 

 dren useful work. Katie, only eleven .\ears old, 

 makes all of one kind of our bread, and most of the 

 cake. By the way, she took the premium on bread 

 at our fair. The children do their own room work, 

 wash the dishes— and, more, are most happy doing 

 this, " if we can oiily he without the giii." 



Thus it is that we desire to have our kitchen as 

 pleasant and as neat, and the most conirnieiit room 

 in the house. The i-oom is 12 x 14 feet, has windows 

 on both ends, is neatl.\- carpeted, and we think it is 

 as cozy as need be. The bath-tub, which cost us 

 twelve dollars, is at one end of the room, in front 

 of two windows. I cased it about with oak, neatly 

 matched, and covered all with a hinged cover of 

 beautiful cherry wood, which shows nature's beau- 

 tiful graining to perfection. The cover of this is 

 held up by a catch when we wish it up. The es- 

 tfape-pipe runs to the same drain which cari'ics utt 



the house-slops, and thus this drain is flushed every 

 time the tub is used, and, indeed, every time we 

 wash, as will bo seen. It seems to me that every 

 house should have such a drain if possible. Health 

 and convenience demand it. Neatness certainly 

 emphasizes the argument; for v.'hat is more re- 

 pellent than the horrible cess-pools seen back of 

 so many country homes';' When the cover is raised, 

 aboard across the bathtub lengthwise makes just 

 the right waslitub bench. Each tub has a hole 

 through the bottom, with a rubber-stop; so to 

 empty the tubs on washday, one has only to raise 

 or withdraw the stoi>. As a rubber hose may be 

 made to coiuiect from the cistern pump, which i.s 

 a force-pump, to tuiis on batli-tul), or to boiler on 

 the stove, it will be seen that a whole washing may 

 be done without lifting any water except to empty 

 the boiler. When the cover of the bath-tub is 

 down it makes an excellent kitchen table, and hlso 

 ser\es as an ir(jniiig-table. If desired, we may 

 stop right here. Hut wc have added about $."i0.00 

 more, and have added hot-water works. As the 

 tank in the bedroom above, which serves as a 

 stand, holds about three barrels, and as I each 

 morning fill this, which takes about fifty strokes 

 of the pump, wife never has to pump or carry any 

 water to do her work. What better planning can 

 be done in any home, than planning to save work 

 for the (juccii of tlie home'/ 



Each door of the kitchen has an inside lock, and 

 all the windows have shades, and so the use of the 

 bath-tub may be as private as though it were kept 

 in a special room. 



One more convenience that gives us nearly as 

 much satisfaction as does the bath-tub, is a frame 

 to hang clothes on, which is fixed to the side of the 

 room opposite the sink, stove, and wood shed door. 

 This is simply a light square frame like a slate 

 frame, made of ash, and is four by seven feet in 

 dimensions. A cross-bar in the center strengthens 

 this frame. Through the end and center bars, 

 holes are bored, and a common clothes-line is 

 stretched lengthwise across the frame every five 

 inches. This is a "roped" frame, not a "wired" one. 

 Two strap hinges fasten the bottom of the end-bars 

 to the wall, about four or five feet from the floor, 

 while a small chain is fastened to the top of the 

 end-bar, and then passes over a small pulley screw- 

 ed into the wall just above where the upper end of 

 the center-bar will be when the frame is close 

 against the wall. By use of this chain the clothes- 

 bar can be drawn close against the wall, or let 

 down at any angle. Thus this is always ready for 

 clothes, and is always out of the way when not 

 needed. It is a sit><i)cndcd, if not a "reversible 

 frame," for the kitvhin. 



If this article shall induce such action as will 

 lessen the burden of an.\- wife and mother, how 

 glad I shall be that I wrote it: It is near Christ- 

 mas; and what a nice Christmas present would 

 such arrangements be for many a loving wife, 

 j whose work is hard ! 



! T forgot to say, that a neat wcod-box stands oppo- 

 site the bath-tub, which Ticitie Is expected to keep 

 full. A. J. Cook. 



Agricultural College, .Mich. 



Friend Cook. 1 have got you and friend 

 Terry on the very topic that pleases me; 

 namely, ])lanning for the queens of our 

 horiHs. If there is anv department in life 

 whei'e we need kind hearts and earnest 



