1914. 
'I'HtC KUKAL, NEW-VORKER 
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A Model Virginia Kitchen. 
'L'lie description of a farm kitchen on 
✓ page 87 made me wonder whether any 
one would be interested in what my 
friends jokingly call ‘‘a model kitchen?” 
We live on a farm in the Virginia moun¬ 
tains, and when we bought the place, the 
farmhouse was provided with a kitchen 
that was a triumph of inconvenience. It 
was everything a kitchen should not be. 
down a flight of stairs from the dining 
room, dark, cold in Winter and hot in 
Summer, with very little storage room, 
and that so scattered that one walked 
miles getting one’s materials together. I 
stood it for two years, and then built a 
kitchen. 
It is on the same floor with the dining 
room, from which it is separated by a 
long narrow butler’s pantry, provided 
with a pantry sink and shelves for the 
dining-room dishes behind sliding glass 
doors. The kitchen is 18x14 feet, with 
an additional jog that goes to the door 
of the cook’s room. The set tubs are cov¬ 
ered so that when not in use they can be 
used as a table. The lower part of the 
dresser is divided into two compartments. 
In one is the flour barrel on a contriv¬ 
ance which allows it to swing in and 
out; in the other, I hope some day to 
have a little dumb waiter for carrying 
fruit jars and so on down to the jelly 
room. Over the sink is a cabinet with 
glass doors and shelves for the spices 
and all the odds and ends that are con¬ 
stantly needed in cooking, such as 
baking powder, starch, soda, cream 
of tartar, measuring cups and so 
on. The radiator really is not necessary, 
but we did not know surely and thought 
it wisest to put it in, but now we know 
that the blue flame oven and burners aiv 
ample for keeping a kitchen warm in 
this climate. We have hot and cold 
water in the sink, and no dirty coal to 
carry in and no dirty ashes to carry out, 
so that compared to the old kitchen, it 
every possible breath of air or ray of 
sunlight. I inquired the reason for such 
precautions. The mother assured me 
that the wind came in around the window 
which was old and loose, so badly that 
Maggie would get “her death of cold” if 
it were not for the corking and bundling 
up of the window. No amount of argu- 
New Use for the Cow. 
meat would convince her to the contrary, 
although she admitted that when Summer 
came and Maggie was out of doors days 
and slept up in the unfinished chamber 
nights she was all right. “The others," 
she added “were just the same when they 
were small.” The others I found were 
old enough so they were allowed to sleep 
up there now the year round, which to 
my mind accounted for the improved 
state of their health. However Maggie 
lived and grew up. 
Later I visited her in her own home. 
I found two happy-faced, robust young¬ 
sters playing in the snow in the door 
yard, and as I climbed the steps to the 
veranda I noticed a baby carriage stand¬ 
ing in the corner. Later investigations 
revealed a plump rosy boy of two months, 
sound asleep with a smile dimpling his 
little face, such a smile as his mother’s 
babyhood never knew, in her stuffy bed- 
i 
A MODML VIRGINIA FARM KITCHEN. 
A. 4<> gal. boiler. It. Blue flame heater for lioiler. C. Separator and stand. D. Blue flame oven. 
E. Shelves for bread boxes. F. Radiator. U. Fireless cooker. 
is Leaven to get dinner, and all the work 
can be done with half the strength, es¬ 
pecially as I now have a patent dish¬ 
washer. farmer’s wife. 
Just Honest Fresh Air. 
I have been doing a good deal of think¬ 
ing lately, as well as too long ago to be 
called lately, about the lack of fresh air, 
and the total disregard of the necessity 
of such a thing as ventilation in most 
of our farmhouses. My life as a district 
school teacher before my marriage gave 
me an intimate knowledge of many farm 
homes which I could have obtained in no 
room with a blanket spread over her face 
for fear she would take cold. Maggie 
herself was the picture of health and hap¬ 
piness. The air in her kitchen as well 
as the rest of her house was pure and 
sweet. To my inquiring look she 
answered: “They’re not going to die for 
a breath of air anyhow, and they never 
have a cold.” I.ast Summer I visited her 
again, and the children, well the accom¬ 
panying photograph speaks for itself of 
their attitude toward life. 
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other way. I have one ease in mind. 
One of my pupils, a little girl in a cer¬ 
tain family, was very thin and white, 
positively starved looking, but I knew 
she was not starving for food in that 
home. Her mother smilingly replied to 
my inquiry: “(), Maggie will be all right 
when it comes Spring so she can get out 
of doors. She always looks just like 
that in the Winter.” 
Soon after Maggie was taken sick. I 
found her in a little seven by nine bed¬ 
room opening from the kitebeu. Its one 
window was muffled in old quilts and 
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