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Show Poor Domestic Advice "When it comes to arrangement of the kitchen, the wife should always be consulted, for mere man should not have the say as to where the kitchen sink shall be located. If he does, the sink is generally placed in the worst possible position for the woman, who has to spend three or four hours a day washing dishes." . Foregojng is a fair sample of a sort of rot that is being spread before young home-builders by writers on "domestic affairs ;" and, there is potential damage in it to present and future geiierations. The kitchen sink is one of the most, important parts of home-making. In it may be the makings of wedded bliss, grounds for divorce, or successful raising of children. Many a wife's happy disposition has been dissipated by the kitchen sink. Many a mother has handed down to her children physical physi-cal ailments the seeds of which germinated in the kitchen sink. In locating the sink, consult wife. In putting it in call in a man. Ninety per cent of the sinks in the homes are too low and wife acquires spinal and other ailments, in bending over them. Even "mere" man isn't stupid enough to stand for such. But, the "back-breaking" sink has been the rule ever since kitchens were invented. Of course, the claim that wife has to spend three or four hours, daily, at dish washing is poppycock. Not two out of two hundred American wives do it. Those that do are either so slow as to deserve the punishment, or they haven't' the proper control of-their husbands and other eaters of the family. |