AN IDEAL KITCHEN
Allowing that any room, regardless of how small and unwell located is ideal sufficient for a kitchen is mistaken. This is the room where housekeepers spend most of their time, and it should be one of the lightest and easiest to work in rooms that exists. Indeed on how well this 'household workshop' runs depends more than any other department upon whether or not a family will be healthy and comfortable. Every kitchen should have windows on two sides of the room; through these pointing at each other, there must be no willful obstruction to allow and leave free passage for the sun. The entrance door or window opening from top downward can change all the air in a closed apartment with ease enough. Light as well as freshness is one among housewives 'essential articles without which it cannot Good drainage too is necessary; and the ventilation of the kitchen should be even more carefully planned than that for a sleeping-room. The ventilation of the kitchen must be large enough ...