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House & 
G a r d t 
THE INDISPENSABLE KITCHEN CABINET 
Whether of fl ood or Steel There Are Certain Requirements of Construction 
That Purchasers Should Understand 
ETHEL R. PEYSER 
F ANCY a carpenter with his tools 
all over the room! Fancy a 
painter with one color here and 
another color there! Do you think we 
would have had a Michelangelo if he 
had been forced to get down from the 
scaffold every minute for a tool or a bit 
of clay? And yet women for the most 
part, women who need their energy for 
making the home a fit place to live in, 
still persist in scattering their tools 
about their kitchens and spreading foot 
mileage to vast extents, because they 
have not mobilized their tools. 
To what can be accredited the 
woman’s hatred of saving steps, even 
though she complains of fatigue and 
extra work? What can account for the 
woman’s dislike of having her things 
handy? Is it money? No, because she 
often buys motors, dogs, jewels and gar¬ 
ments in quantities far more than she 
needs. It is perhaps due to a past vast- 
ness of ignorance. But now when there 
are specialists descanting on the glories 
of saving steps, time and money there is 
little excuse. In this article one stum¬ 
bling block will be removed and the 
kitchen can well transform itself into a 
room where the most methodical man 
can work and where any maid coming 
in for the first time will not have to use 
levers, telescopes, periscopes and what 
not to prepare the first meal. For the 
kitchen cabinet is the first plank in the 
platform of standardizing domestic 
work even as it is being standardized 
in the factory. This is the basic glory 
of the kitchen cabinet. Now, for the 
more important details of its makeup. 
These cabinets group in one place the 
necessary tools and materials for getting 
together the meals of the house. They 
hold the spices, flour, sugars, bottles, 
pots and pans, sometimes linens, ice 
and gas or electric stoves, packages of 
cereals, etc., and they are the table, the 
bread board, the flour board, the flour 
bin and dish rack all in one. 
Here the woman can work where 
everything is within arm’s reach; she 
can sit at her work and not fatigue her¬ 
self. In short, she has a work bench at 
last and can feel as professional as the 
carpenter or the artist, and she must, if 
the kitchen is ever going to be as im¬ 
portant in the life and best living of 
mankind as it deserves to be. 
Built of steel entirely in some cases, 
all wood in others, and a combination 
of both in still others, they are comfort¬ 
able and worth while in the best makes. 
Of course in this product, as in all 
others, one must go to the best manu¬ 
facturers who know their business and 
take an interest beyond the sale. 
When you buy a kitchen cabinet you 
must get the maximum comfort and util¬ 
ity. Go about and see which one you 
think will save you the most work. 
The all-steel cabinet, of course, is less 
responsibility to keep free of vermin. 
The wood type is a little more care. 
If your cabinet is to be of wood, see 
to it that it is ant proof (the castors as 
well), has all round corners, is varnish 
and finish steamproof, has locks that 
lock, doors that easily open, whether 
Cabinets in units can be 
made to fit any size or 
shape of kitchen. This 
single dresser unit is com¬ 
pact type for a narrow 
space. Courtesy of Janes 
& Kirtland 
(.Left) Among the many 
advantages of this type 
is the accommodating 
flour bin that lets down 
from its place to be filled. 
Courtesy of the Sellers 
Kitchen Cabinet Co. 
(Right) Innumerable de¬ 
vices for reducing kitchen 
work are found here, 
among them a movable 
pot shelf. Courtesy of 
the Ho osier Kitchen 
Cabinet Co. 
