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THE PASSING OF THE PANTRY 
{Continued from page 104) 
which gleam and which can be rapidly 
wiped off and become again beautiful and 
clean. Eating off the kitchen table, even 
if you have no alcove with folding or 
non-folding furniture, is no longer a mark 
of heroism! The unconscious reasoning 
in this kitchen breakfasting and lunching 
is; Why not eat in the kitchen and save 
time and effort when it is so beautiful and 
so clean? 
In most of the kitchens or pantry or ex¬ 
pantry alcoves, there is a good light over 
the table so that eating is pleasurable. 
Lighting of these informal eating places 
can be done by an overhead light or by a 
side bracket or two which go well into the 
rest of the kitchen or transformed pantry 
scheme. 
The flooring is not to be despised as a 
factor in making the passing of the pantry 
a fact of our latterday economic transi¬ 
tion. In former days the floors were either 
of wood or unattractive “oil cloth”. 
Now we have the exquisite linoleums and 
their cousins and brothers the congole- 
ums, linotiles, etc. Their patterns are now 
legion. There is so much variety in these 
floors and so much warmth of color and 
comfort of design that a real feeling of 
beauty is attained. 
But what have we come to? We are 
again back to the daj^s of our forefathers 
when artists painted Dutch kitchens, 
when artists painted the New England 
kitchen, when the artist recognized the 
kitchen as a paintable subject, since the 
family lived most of its life in the kitchen. 
Perhaps we will live more of ours. The 
kitchen is surely coming back into the life 
of the home. 
It is strange that new inventions should 
bring us back to old methods of life, but it 
is so. For example, I am very sure, were it 
not for the incinerator and other means of 
polite and drastic methods of disposal of 
waste, the kitchen luncheonette (another 
name for this impromptu custom of eat¬ 
ing) would not be possible. Failing the 
incinerator, which burns up refuse noise¬ 
lessly, without odors escaping into the 
room, you can have the charming, yes, 
charming, white enameled garbage pail, 
which you use by pressing with the foot, 
thus opening the top, and sliding the 
waste into the receptacle. Another thing 
you can have made is the work table 
which has a hole in it so that when you 
cup up vegetables they slide rapidly and 
swiftly into the pedalled can aw'aiting 
below. In apartments there is often a gar¬ 
bage chute which carries the garbage into 
the cellar incinerator. 
So you see how the manufacturer with 
his infinite discretion is doing queer 
and lovely things to the m.odem home. 
The passing of the pantrj’ does not pass 
understanding as it has roots in the life 
of today. I have heard people deplore the 
fact of its passing, people who think that 
it denotes poverty and better days in the 
past, yet I can hardly think that. I can’t 
but think that anything as lovely as the 
new homey livable kitchen is not a come¬ 
down but a “come up” to better times. 
So, in conclusion, due to the larger 
kitchens, the ingenuity of the manufac¬ 
turer, the decrease in the size of the pock- 
etbooks and space and the more stringent 
immigration law's, the ancient pantry in 
certain spots on the surface of our globe 
seems to be dying a very beautiful death, 
giving place to the intensified beauty of 
the kitchen, the alcove, the metamor¬ 
phosed pantry. 
THE NARROW MARGIN OF PROFIT 
{Continuedfrom page 61) 
certain number of unpaid debts which 
cannot be collected because of the failure 
or death of the people incurring them, and 
also an architect is continually called 
upon to do something for nothing. His 
clients want him to design special furni¬ 
ture or, a year or tw'o after the house is 
done, to make some trifling suggestion as 
to change. He is asked to do little pieces 
of w'ork for charity of some kind, or hap¬ 
pens to be a member of the club that 
wants something done, or some of his 
relatives or friends ask him to do some¬ 
thing wdthout charge, “just a few little 
sketches, don’t you know ”. At the end of 
the year these items mount up. 
The house illustrated here is neither 
unique in my experience nor an exception 
in usual architectural practice. I simply 
don’t dare make a real accounting on 
most of the smaller jobs. My books would 
show a loss on too many of them, and I 
know a very considerable number of ar¬ 
chitects w'ho say they cannot do a coun¬ 
try house under §ioo,ooo without show¬ 
ing a loss. For me a $ioo,ooo house is a 
pretty big job, and I can make a good 
profit on it but I do not believe that it is 
possible to make a set of drawings for any 
house under $ 15,000 and show any money 
for the architect, providing the work is 
completely done. 
Yet there is apparently a feeling on the 
part of many people that an architect’s 
charges are excessive and that he does 
little to earn his money I 
The garage is connected with the kitchen wing by an 
arched passage and its roof repeats the kitchen gable 
