June, 1919 
S3 
The Necessary Equipment 
It need consist only of a couple of three 
foot shelves, so compact are the stoves and 
ranges made for light housekeeping. But 
roominess is no crime, so multitudinous are the 
tools to play with. Smallness, however, is 
usually synonymous with convenience in 
kitchenettes. 
Nearly every professional woman and many 
men in the large cities are banded into a huge 
League of Rations by the sympathetic tie of 
small kitchenettes. These compact cooking 
outfits make their lives simple, adaptable and 
healthful, they are the result of the hatred of 
the restaurant and cafe which turn steady diet 
into a farce, and they put an end to the regime: 
“Eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow we 
diet.” And so the slit in the wall or the cov¬ 
ered cupboard is made the nucleus of home 
copking and family feeling. No servants 
needed, none missed and a feeling that one is 
not living down by doing one’s own- work but 
living up by managing the difficult combina¬ 
tion of living well and doing one’s job on the 
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The most compact kitchenette can bs 
made to fold up into a cabinet. Here it 
is, with electric stove, ice box, drawers 
below and a pull-out work shelf and 
foodstuff shelves above. Courtesy of 
the Edison Co. 
and ceiling like luminous settings and the ap¬ 
paratus like lovely gems. Really it breeds ap¬ 
petite and culinary prowess. Any one could 
cook in this place! And when I’m not in such 
an esthetic mood I am reminded of an engine 
room in a small electric yacht.” 
“That is amusing,” said Mrs. Eggleston, 
laughing, “but I hardly can see how it could 
be otherwise because Gregory and I thought 
of all the yachts we knew before arranging 
this kitchenette. He always says, 'Well, dear, 
we certainly are ship-shape here—even if we 
don’t own a yacht!’ ” 
Whether the slit in the wall kitchenette or 
the tiled kitchenette is the only kitchen in the 
family, or whether the kitchenette is only for 
weekends of the foregoing variety, it must be 
small and ship-shape. These are the only 
definite kitchenette requirements. 
Walter Russell, artist and culinary hedonist, 
has a kitchenette in which the stove hides 
behind a mirrored door flanked with tile, 
while the rest of the kitchenette is finished 
in transparent white paint, and cement floor 
The electric kitchen¬ 
ette of Mr. Penryhn 
Stanlaws, the artist, 
has cement floor, 
walls and ceiling and 
shows a range of the 
latest design and the 
sink conveniently 
placed under one of 
the lights 
If one has no kitch¬ 
enette a whole meal 
can be prepared on 
the dining room 
table in a table 
range and ovenette, 
the smallest form of 
compact electric 
stove. Courtesy of 
the Edison Co. 
