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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



December, 1906 



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There are kitchens and kitchens. There 

 are real kitchens and theoretical kitchens. 

 There are kitchens of real life and kitchens 

 of fiction. There are old-time kitchens and 

 kitchens of modern days. The single common 

 point of all these rooms is their intense dif- 

 ference. The kitchen of real life is something 

 very different from the fictional kitchens with 

 which our lady novelists beguile the atten- 

 tion of their readers. The old-time kitchen 

 we know of in reality because a few have sur- 

 vived to our own day. The real kitchen we 

 have always with us in amazing variety; the 

 theoretical kitchen we read of with wonder 

 and wish it could be realized. 



The kitchen hung with brass pots and jars; 

 the dressers lined with rare china-ware — there 

 may be such rooms but they are not the 

 kitchen of the every-day house. There are 

 mistresses that rejoice in their kitchens and 

 spend much of their time in them — but the 

 women one knows would rather leave them to 

 their servants and spend their time in a more 

 agreeable fashion. As for the "model" kitchen 

 every one knows that it is for exhibition pur- 

 poses only; no food is cooked within it, no 

 labor is done there ; perhaps half the things 

 no one ever hears of. 



The more's the pity; for these "model" 

 rooms are highly useful as object-lessons, and 

 may be profitably studied by almost every one, 

 even if half the devices are unknown and are 

 never out into practical use in one's own 

 kitchen. And so the tale runs on ; the adviser 

 occupying a different position from the actual 

 worker, and she in her turn having a different 

 point of view from the mistress. 



A problem is immediately presented whose 

 solution can be found only in the points where 

 all these persons come together in common. 

 A kitchen can never be a cut-and-dried apart- 

 ment, in which everything is prepared accord- 

 ing to rule and in any number of which an 

 identical equipment can be found. There is 

 not only room for individuality here, but 

 individuality is demanded and necessitated by 

 the necessities of the case. 



The decorative aspects of the kitchen form 

 some of the problems which come under this 

 head. A good deal can be done by using 

 utensils of one color or of one of a series of 

 related colors. The use-value of these things, 

 in a general sense, is identical, but the decora- 

 tive value is variable, and the appearance of 

 the kitchen will, in a large measure, depend 

 on what is put into it. If that is good and 

 seems good a good result will follow, and 

 when that is reached about as much has been 

 done in obtaining a decorative effect as it is 

 possible to do. 



A final point, and one of some difficulty, is 

 the costume to be worn in the kitchen. If 

 the mistress does any work herself there she 

 must solve the problem in her own way, and 

 will probably use very large aprons to cover 

 her dress. The cook may be less amenable 

 to suggestions on this point, and the com- 

 mand to wear white dresses only is likely to 

 excite rebellion, the more especially if she 

 must change them on the slightest appearance 

 of soiling and wash and iron them in her own 

 time. White dresses have long since come 

 into general use as the regulation costume for 

 nurses, and it is possible that they may come 

 into general use for cooks and housemaids. 

 Such costumes mean more labor for the 

 laundry department, and they may mean more 

 expense in any event. But a servant neatly 

 clothed in white, working in a pleasant, 

 bright kitchen, neatly furnished, kept scrupu- 

 ously clean is the final note in the decorative 

 effect, and very likely the greatest treasure in 

 the house. 



