. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. the small drawer offile cards should have a place in the kitchen as well as in theoffice, even though solely used for recipes and not for statisticsof living expenses. Many manufacturers have in recent years recognized thehitherto helplessness of the housewife as to her kitchen appoint-ments, and really the thought has been considered more by themanufacturer than by the architect or builder, with whom itshould have had first attention. The kitchen cabinet is the re-sult, a much in little idea, which certainly is a welcome ad
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. the small drawer offile cards should have a place in the kitchen as well as in theoffice, even though solely used for recipes and not for statisticsof living expenses. Many manufacturers have in recent years recognized thehitherto helplessness of the housewife as to her kitchen appoint-ments, and really the thought has been considered more by themanufacturer than by the architect or builder, with whom itshould have had first attention. The kitchen cabinet is the re-sult, a much in little idea, which certainly is a welcome ad-dition to the working equipment of a kitchen, for how often is arear room designated as a kitchen, the only indication that it issuch being the sink and water supply with a few misplacedshelves insecurely arranged in a closet styled the pantry? 247 248 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN For a small family, and those who rent, the kitchen cabinet,Fig. 248, is a welcome accessory to preserve order. Bringingthe necessaries into immediate focus, as it were, for the prepara-. FlG. 248.—Kitchen Cabinet. tion of meals. Forethought should be observed in the purchaseof a cabinet that one of ample proportions be obtained to pro-vide space for working equipment without over crowding, other-wise the orderly idea is defeated. Were it not that these ar^ CERTAIN KITCHEN ACCESSORIES 249 tides are addressed to the artisan—the man who is desirous,apart from the economical consideration, to furnish his homewith furniture of his own design and construction—the cabinetobtained from a dealer would be very satisfactory, as generallythey are well made. The mechanic, however, has great per-sonality and inventiveness, and has little patience with made upboughten affairs which do not meet with his ideas and possiblydo not come up to the requirements of his family needs. Ana-lyzing the kitchen cabinet, it is found to be an evolution of thecommon kitchen table making all one can out of the space under-neat
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