55 
October, 1919 
in the pen sketch 
and shining blue 
and white tiles re¬ 
flected it at either 
side. She had the 
blue and w bite 
chintz on both bed 
and mantelpiece and 
her shelves were 
filled with blue and 
white dishes and 
pewter plates and 
candlesticks. T h e 
walls were practical, 
for one-third of the 
distance up from the 
floor they were 
painted black which 
made the white two- 
thirds look whiter 
still. 
Table and Stove 
In Eta pies, France, is 
red tiled floor, a blue 
She had a folding 
round table which 
she brought forth at 
meal time and 
served herself with 
wondrous soup 
cooked on the tiny 
stove (over a coal 
fire) and French bread without butter and a 
pewter mug of water. 
She had no vacuum cleaner, no electric 
motor, nor any of the modern ‘‘efficiencies” so 
necessary to-day but she made of her kitchen 
a home, a living-room, her work room, her 
rest room, and in it she was happy and wel¬ 
comed anyone who would be her guest. 
Kitchens are beginning to attract the atten¬ 
tion of the householder in various parts of 
the country. There is a woman in Maine who 
inherited an old house which she carefully kept 
in the old-time atmosphere by furnishing and 
decorating it as nearly according to its own 
period as possible—all but the kitchen. This 
she equipped in the most modern and up-to- 
date manner, introducing every modern device 
that could contribute to the efficiency of the 
work. 
There is the electric motor to turn the bread- 
mixer, the ice-cream freezer, the meat-grinder, 
an old kitchen that serves for living and bedroom —i 
and whits tiled fireplace and a cupboard filled with 
the coffee-mill—in fine, whatever crank needs 
turning. And there are the fireless cookers 
running by clock-work, certain to have break¬ 
fast ready at the prescribed moment, and vac¬ 
uum-cleaners, electric stove—oh, all the new¬ 
est inventions that make for dispatch and its 
reward, leisure. 
A Kitchen Scheme 
The color scheme is carefully planned. The 
walls are the color of a ripe peach or a certain 
shade of pinkish orange very dull in tone that 
is found in that dear old-fashioned flower, the 
zinnia. The floor is terra-cotta tiling. You 
know that, too, is reddish orange; the furni¬ 
ture, motor and cooking apparatus are shin¬ 
ing black with a little of the terra-cotta color 
introduced in certain showy places in the con¬ 
struction. 
For wall decoration, instead of picture cal¬ 
endars, or pictures from colored weeklies, there 
are actual wall-painting silhouettes of ladies 
really working, but dressed as William Morris 
himself would have had them, in clothing 
pleasant to look upon. (You know how he 
advocated men at road-making, habited in 
beautifully embroid¬ 
ered garments and 
ladies hay - making 
in delicately cling¬ 
ing silks!) 
Over the service- 
table two of these 
are dancing, in their 
hands a plum pud¬ 
ding held aloft on a 
large platter. This 
in itself illustrates 
the use of the table 
where foods are pre¬ 
pared or arranged to 
carry into the old 
dining room where 
guests are awaiting 
with keen appetite. 
While the maids 
are making bread or 
pastry and all floury 
foods and cereals, it 
gives them fresh in¬ 
spiration to look up 
and exchange a 
friendly smile with 
the demure Priscilla 
sort of person who 
is pictured as in the 
corn field picking 
ripe ears and putting them into her commodi¬ 
ous basket. 
The Cook’s Rest 
Now it occurred to the lady and to the 
‘‘household engineer” who planned this kit¬ 
chen, that there were times when even those 
who work in kitchens would feel tired and 
wish to rest! So there is a rest corner. Only 
imagine such a thing in a kitchen, rather a 
contrast to the woman who discharged her 
maid because she asked for a rocking-chair in 
her kitchen, the only room in which she was 
allowed excepting at meal times. 
In this corner are book shelves well filled 
with diverting or improving books and paper 
to write upon, with accessories. There are 
comfortable seats with satine covered cushions 
on them, the table having the same for a cover, 
washable and fresh: in this corner at this table 
(Continued on page 78) 
a quaint place with a 
blue and white china 
Above the fruit and flower table 
is this stencil of a decorative girl 
at work 
The rest corner for the servants 
has this decoration of a girl 
blown by the wind 
The decoration over the service table shows 
two William Morris sort of working ladies 
bearing gorgeous plum puddings 
