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( Right) This type of 
little cabinet is ample 
for a small family — 
enough for a bride with 
or without a maid 
( Left) Closed, this cab¬ 
inet is sealed tight 
against dust and ver¬ 
min. Courtesy of Sel¬ 
lers Kitchen Cabinet Co. 
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one leaf is shut or both, whether 
it is winter or summer, supplies 
a broad enough table to sit down 
to and work comfortably, a table 
top impervious to liquids, grease 
and heat, a sanitary glass drawer 
pull, dovetail wood joinings, 
easy rolling castors, everything 
easily withdrawn to clean, and 
of non-warping, well-seasoned 
wood. The finish must be the 
best, whether enameled, painted 
or varnished. 
In the cabinet of steel con¬ 
struction one must be sure that 
the enamel is on to stay; that the 
doors, drawers and locks are of 
the best construction, electrically 
welded. The doors, etc., must be 
rigid enough not to emit hollow 
sounds every time they are 
closed. In the best type the 
doors do not dent or wobble but 
are double, about 7/16" thick, 
reinforced on the inside with 
heavy steel angles, making them 
rigidity enthroned. The frames 
are rabbeted to receive doors and 
drawers, thus giving no over¬ 
hang but making a flush surface. 
The doors in the steel cabinet 
are more comfortable to handle 
if they are hung on concealed brass hinges, 
with bullet catches which enable the doors to 
open and shut absolutely independent of each 
other. 
In both the steel and the wood cabinets the 
table tops are all of different material. The 
best steel type in our opinion uses nickeled 
zinc; the best wood cabinets use porcelain, iron, 
aluminum, vitreous steel, enamel, etc. Any of 
these tops are good and when in the standard 
makes you can be very sure that they have been 
well tried and not found wanting in any es¬ 
sential quality. 
In general, then, the cabinet is a receptacle 
for the most used things in the kitchen; there¬ 
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Broom, linen and 
general utility clos¬ 
ets flank this steel 
kitchen cabinet. All 
are raised 6" above 
the floor. Courtesy 
of Janes & Kirtland 
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fore, is so much used itself that 
it cannot be too good and should 
be adapted to your special need. 
If you are building a house 
and want to have your kitchen a 
real comfort, install a kitchen 
cabinet or go to the firm that, 
with its unit system, can make 
up a kitchen cabinet combining 
most of the best things you see 
in any. This is an expensive 
way but a miraculous joy. If 
you want a cabinet to be in¬ 
stalled before the house is built 
it is a saving in wall tiling where 
the cabinet is placed, especially 
if the cabinet is made of steel. 
There is one cabinet on the 
market that has an ice box in it, 
which when installed with the 
back toward the porch wall 
makes it possible for the ice to 
be put in from the porch and all 
packages delivered from the 
porch through its parcel-service 
shelf opening on the porch! 
In this cabinet there is, too, 
room for a gas stove or electric 
plates, so that with it you have 
a complete, compact kitchen. 
The unit systems in steel are 
most elastic, as they can be 
duplicated over the broadest and the narrowest, 
longest and shortest kitchens. Whole pantries 
can be equipped with them. Diet kitchens in 
the upper floors of large residences can also be 
equipped with these units so that any member 
of the family, nurse or valet, can prepare a 
little meal with everything comfortably housed 
in the pantry cabinet. They are one of those 
examples of household developments which are 
so rapidly coming to the front today and mean 
so much in convenience. 
Each maker of kitchen cabinets has a spe¬ 
cialty or two which he tells you makes for 
superiority. Each one is right, so you must 
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Love in a cottage or 
two in a flat would 
be made quite hap¬ 
py with this com¬ 
pact steel cabinet. 
Courtesy of Janes 
& Kirtland 
