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Show Kitchen Really Keynote of Home There Is no other room In a house which so definitely indicates a rounded round-ed cycle of fashion in housing necessities neces-sities as does thu kitchen. Within the past few years it has become the most discussed part of a home. Its decorative schemes have undergone marvelous changes. Its uses have become be-come complex, its furnishings distinctive, dis-tinctive, and its equipment elaborately elaborate-ly efficient. In fact, the kitchen has again come into its own. Long years ago it was the main room in a house, being kitchen, dining room, and living liv-ing room. Today it fulfills the first two of these functions. It partakes mildly of the third, although modern kitchen fittings are too mechanical and coldly technical for the old-fashioned coziness to be present, which coziness was almost cuddling in its hearty welcoming atmosphere. The home builder of today who decides to feature the kitchen in her new house will do well to remember one item of the past kitchens. They had sink rooms! These little rooms were as large as up-to-date kitchenettes. kitchen-ettes. The stove was not present, but the sink was prominent. Around the walls were shelves a-plenty, and every convenience for taking care of dirty dishes, pots and pans, and keeping the clean ones neatly stowed away. Of course, there was the dining-room closet, in which was stacked the best china, the sink room containing con-taining the everyday tableware together to-gether with cooking utensils. With such a room it was possible to segregate se-gregate the confusion of unsightly articles from the attractive ones, and preserve a tidy kitchen even when cooking was under way. The clutter of the pots and pans, baking dishes, etc., did not disturb the serenity of a living room. The sink room is one which would relieve a modern kitchen kitch-en equally well, and help to make it a more fitting dining room, which, as mentioned before, is one of its present-day uses. Apart from this suggestion for home builders, let us speak of some of the various aids to efficiency in equipments for kitchens)) lacking in convenience. When d room is Inadequate, there are tional closets which can be bj and put in wherever wanted. T are low closets and high closets j closets and narrow closets, all' to suit all rooms. There are J table bins, open or enclosed. There are stoves which resej closets and refrigerators which like cold storage rooms, small attractive. There are cleverly . trived dressers which are as! quate as tiny pantries. There washing machines which, when t ed, transform a kitchen Into a dry for a few hours as requ Most of these washing machines! merely what they are, practical j ern labor-saving equipments. j these are just a few of the ij qualities. When hidden they litj make it possible to have aUraj kitchen-dining rooms. 1 ), Bell Syndicate WN'U Servlc&j |