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HOUSE & GARDEN 
A nicely finished kitchen, but the table, stove, counters and sink are too far apart. The solid 
base of floor fitting snugly against the wall is good. Walls are tiled, door trims marble and the 
floor tile making the room sanitary in every respect 
of the pantry is scarcely of less im¬ 
portance than that of the kitchen it¬ 
self. The design of the butler’s or 
serving pantry will be largely gov¬ 
erned by the question of how many 
servants are to be employed, as in a 
household where two or more ser¬ 
vants are employed, one of them 
may, at times, work almost exclu¬ 
sively in this pantry requiring a sink 
for washing of glass, silver and the 
more delicate china, as well as an 
ample counter or work table. If but 
one or no servant is employed, it is 
not likely that a sink will be required 
in the pantry, or so extensive a work¬ 
ing space. 
Another governing factor in the 
arrangement of the pantry is the 
quantity of china and dining-room 
equipment to be cared for and the 
extent to which its storage will be 
divided between the pantry and the 
dining-room itself. It is coming to 
be felt by many people that it shows 
better taste not to display much china 
or silver in the dining-room, and it is 
certainly a labor-saving system to 
keep it in the pantry, where it need 
not always be ready for dress parade. 
Again, if the display is made in the dining-room, at the times 
of entertaining, when the hostess would like to have the dining¬ 
room appear at its best, she finds that her cupboards and china 
closets are almost bare, owing to the drain on their contents to 
provide for the extra guests. If the flat silver is to be kept in 
the pantry, there should be provided for the purpose drawers 
with partitioned compartments, covered with felt or canton 
flannel. The proper care of linen will necessitate a number of 
drawers designed for the purpose. These drawers must be 
wide in order to receive large table cloths, with the minimum 
of folding, and they should not be too deep, as the necessity of 
removing the articles on the top, in order to reach those farther 
down, is not only an inconvenience, but the extra handling also 
musses the linen. This pantry is also the logical place for some 
device for the storage of extra table leaves, and possibly for a 
false table top, used to increase the standard-sized round table 
for special occasions. A dish-warming radiator placed here 
may form the double purpose of heating the room, and provid¬ 
ing a place for the warming of the dishes for the dining-room 
service, thus eliminating the necessity of taking these dishe» 
to the kitchen for warming. 
The refrigerator is almost as important as the pantry itself, 
and should be placed in the butler’s pantry. It has been rather 
common practice to place the refrigerator in the so-called 
kitchen or cold pantry, but it seems certainly to be more logi¬ 
cally placed in the butler’s pantry, where it will be equally dis¬ 
tant from the dining-room and from 
the kitchen, as the trips to it from 
each of these rooms occur with al¬ 
most equal frequency. In some of 
the better refrigerators on the market 
to-day the insulation is so perfect 
that the slightly warmer temperature 
of the butler’s pantry is a negligible 
factor. An outside door to the ice 
chamber, allowing for direct filling 
from the exterior of the house, is 
very desirable, not only as it elimi¬ 
nates the dirt and the confusion of 
having the iceman come into the 
house, but it also enables those not 
desiring to keep ice through the win¬ 
ter to use the refrigerator in winter 
without ice, by the simple device of 
arranging the rear door of the ice 
chamber with a screen, and allowing 
the cold air to circulate through the 
entire refrigerator. As some types of 
refrigerators are now made with 
water coils for the cooling of water, 
and with electric lights which are 
turned on by the opening of the door, 
it is necessary to consider at the first 
instance, whether such a type is to be 
used, so that the proper water, and 
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Here the spacing is in better proportion, fewer steps having to be taken between the work 
parts of the room. Modern cabinets concentrate the work. Here the pantry tray is of marble 
