4 > LE — a ———— 111 ¢ A 3 3 Wy ana n NLS I a & |RCHITECTURAL exhibitions §1 this winter emphasize an over whelming trend toward smaller kitchens and larger bathrooms. There is no parti tion between these opposi hileenied dencies, except that both have a sound scientific basis are interest ing illustrations of American leadership in everything that makes for efliciency and good living. Small kitchens are in general venient than the largest room in the house, an e: of vast open space frequently general sitting room, as a laur as a playroom for the children. Distances from one point to another were so great that food preparation became a task re quiring the combined persons, strapped a pedometer found that she walked more than a qi ter of a mile while making a custard in such an old-fashioned kitchen. The modern kitchen designed tmost conservation f time and energy, and the ideal size for the average home. ae cording to scientists, is an oblong room no more than 8 by 12 feet. The oblong shape is better than the square because fewer steps are re quired in crossing the room from cone work center to another. Science also d tes the g ngement of the equipment. Everything is poses of step saving. Most women work in a right to left motion. The order of thelr kitchen is fixed, —first, gathering up the raw food from cupboard and refrigerator: second. preparing it for the stove; third, cooking it and serving it; fourth, removing the dishes, washing them and putting them away. This fixed order is reflected in the arrangement of the kitchen fur- niture,—~first, refrigerator and food cupboard: second, work table; third, stove: fourth, serv. ing table; fifth, sink and dish cupboard. The scientists prescribe that the walls shall be lined with all the equipment in the order named, so that work proceeds exactly like the assembling of an automobile on an endless belt. And the kitchen of the future will be as small as it can conveniently be and meet these requirements, Bigger and Better Bathrooms On the other hand, bathrooms just naturally tend to increase in size and importance. The modern bathroom has come to be one of the most attractive rooms in the house, well lighted, well ventilated and luxuriously equip- ped and decorated. The American bathroom has no precedent in the lives and customs of people of other lands. There are no “period styles” in bath. rooms to copy. The bathroom Is a development of the past 356 years, and architects have only recently begun seriously to study the equip- ment and decorative treatment of this modern American room. Originality in bathroom architecture was held back for a long time by the casual and undistinguished beginnings of the room itself. A generation ago, when a home owner became converted to Its importance as a factor in health and comfort, he would order one in- stalled in his house, usually converting another room, a large closet or a back hallway into a bathroom. And this attitude toward the bath. room has left its mark upon architects and builders up to very recent years. In planning new houses, or remodelling old ones, they gave the least possible consideration to the bathe room. It was tucked away in any old corner, and grudgingly given a small obscure window. Times are changing, however, and today architects and builders have begun to realize that the bathroom is so essential to the well being of the whole family that from the very starting of the plans for a house it should be a part of that home and should recelve special attention. In the houses of the future this particular room will be planned and built as a bathroom, with more light, more alr and more sunshine than ever before. It will have plenty of space, and will be frequently equipped with such machinery of health as exercisers, weighing machines and sun lamps, Magic of Machinery Science and Invention have worked so many miracles in the daily life of the Twentieth Century that people sothetimes fail to realize their supreme contribution to the noble task of abolishing household drudgery. In an hour, the modern home maker can accomplish things Dishwashing is one of the daily monotonouy tasks Coffee and toast in today’s breakfast nook without effert The vacuum cleaner abolishes the tiresome and dirty tagk of Sweeping, ind home mak i irst came the electric fron, and it saved from the stove to the ironing and back again amounted to severa year for every home maker. Next washing mac! e, not only saving also contributing to human happiness by abol- ishing aching backs and cracked knuckles. he vacuum cleaner, which at one stroke the tiresome and dusty task of sweeping. Finally the automatic refrigerator, whose possibilities are only just beginning to be realized by home makers, —{for it not only gaves time and energy, but actually takes a part in the preparation of food, adding a long list of Intriguing contributions to the daily menu, The automatic refrigerator has brought a new touch of luxury and attractiveness to the home table. It has added a note of color and zest to all departments of domestic hospitality. With its aid, the technique pf food preparation approaches perfection. We have discovered that cold is just as im- portant in the kitchen as heat. It improves many fruits and vegetables. It makes meats more healthful and appetizing. It enables the home maker to keep her prepared dishes longer and to do her work further in advance. It brings to the ordinary family hundreds of recipes never before within their command. It helps every housewife to the achievement of new successes and new economies. The importance of a good refrigerator is un- questionable. Annual yearly waste of foodstuffs in the United States is 20 percent of the total, and half of this is waste in the home due to spoilage, Frozen Desserts The first Englishman to taste a frozen sherbet was Richard the Lion Hearted. In the year 1191, while he was crusading in Palestine, he was treated to this delicacy by the Moham- medan leader Saladin. Richard could hardly believe his tongue when he tasted so delicate a dish, One of the "tall tales” told by Marco Polo when he came back from his travels was about a frozen pudding that tasted like sweetened snow, Nobody believed him until he showed a Vienna cook how to do it. About 300 years later one of his recipes was used by Catherine de Medicl as the climax of her wedding feast. Today with the ald of the automatic refrigerator the humblest home may have with slight effort and expense dishes which 200 years ago were served only to kings and emperors, and to them only on the most important occasions, Today it is no more trouble to make a biscuit tortoni than a rice pudding. Housecleaning Made Easy The bugbear of housecleaning has been prae- tically driven out of American life by the mod. ern spirit of efficiency and labor saving. New tools and machines have been developed, old implements and materials have been improved, and houses are built so that it is easy to keep them clean. The modern washing machine, the vacuum cleaner, the self-wringing mops and chomicalized dust cloths are instruments which make it a practical working principle to keep clean rather than to make clean. It the daily household routine is carelully planned, If the kind of furnishings that are casy to keap clean are chosen and handled in the right way, and if provision is made for keeping all the dirt possible out of the house, there is no longer any need for worrying about those veriodiec upheavals which used to her. In a ques gs asking their able and mo $20 mentioned t, of course, that a day, seven times No other task In housework consumes the time required by this one operation. Somebody has stimated that an electric dishwasher gctually saves the average woman 40 working days eight hours each out of every year. A scieniist ha sired that old fashioned methods of dishwashing cost $252 a year for a family of four people: when done electrically the cost Importance of Soft Water Among household inventions which have not yet gained universal re fon, architects are now emphasizing the value of water softeners. “Water is zo essential in every phase of moder: life, and it bears such an important relation to health and pers i! comfort, that everyone should know moro about those characteristics of water that make it desirable or detrimental for household and personal use, Water is the greatest solvent known to man. That is, it will dissolve readily a greater num- ber of substances than any other liquid, and for that reason always coniains many impuri ties. As water falls from the sky in the form of rain, it gathers up all the particles of dust, gmoke and gases that have risen from the ground and are floating about in the air. Water from springs, wells or rivers gathers up min- eral impurities, Probably the time will come when all water used in homes will be filtered through a water softener, to remove the impurities that harden the water and hamper the lathering qualities of soap. In the laundry, soft water imparts a snowy dry fluffiness and a sweet smelling cleanliness to the wash that is absolutely unknown to bard-water users. Briefly Told There are nettles everywhere; bul smooih green grasses are more common still, The Bad Part of It Listeners don't expect to hear any good of themselves: it's the bad of others they are after.~Chlcago News, ———————— m———— Use Tor Hair Tons of hair at one time were used for packing between the plates of a certain part of English war vessels. Hair, being very elastic, afforded a good backing to metal, Ultraviolet Protection Dangerous and invisible rays of ultraviolet light produced by arc welding are absorbed by a special paint developed for the covering of walls in rooms where such work is done. It is an oiltype paint, gray In color, and dries in about two hours after application.~Popular Mechanics Magazine, - Those Good Old Days It is the feeble and illnourished mind that shrinks from knowledge of what has been and suffers from pessimistic dread of what ia yot to be. It is only the mentally and spiritaally ham. pered--prophesying of evil to come-~who be lleve that all change In our own day must be for the worse, and who long for the good old days. ~Albert Shaw in Review of Reviews, Testimonies from all parts of the world prove the beneficial results obtained from the use of Cuticeura Preparations Pimples, rashes, eczema and all forms of itching, burning skin troubles are Bb quickly healed by regular use of A Cuticura Soap and Co Mm g Ointment. Lele) - Soap Be; Ointment 25¢ and 50c. Proprietors: a LAE pg otter DI} & Chemical Corp. PE Sad en, Mass, > #1 Sz Try Cuticura Shaving Cream. stories, It weighs 673 pounds. But across from it one finds the small est pipes, hardly thicker than a wheat straw and only a third of an {inch long. Their tone ig a whole Huge German Instrument Is| cn octaves higher than that of the . 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