ILL-VENTILATED KITCHENS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2479, 21 August 1903, Page 2

ILL-VENTILATED KITCHENS.

'lhe kitchen, the one-place where the cook and oftentimes the mother must spend most of her time, is usually the most poorly ventilated room in the house, and the only time a little air is allowed to stray in is when something is burnt or something smokes or any other calamity happens that obliges the cook to throw open the windows or else choke. A woman who did her own cooking for a few months saya never again will she blame her cook or even wonder at her for craving for liquor. " When I was cooking a big dinner," she declared, " the desire to get a nice cold glass of something would grow on me and after that I never doubt my cook when she says she can't help drinking. The bad air and the heat make it almost necessary to have alcohol in some form or other. Since that experience I have insisted on the kitchen

being provided with proper ventilation and not being kept too hot." A doctor says a great deal of rheuma tisrn is contracted in over-heated kitchens, and that consumption is a frequent result of the bad air. And he siys that when housekeepers come to him declaring that they have no appetite and do not feel like eating, he forbids them to pnter the kitchen for a while, and that is all that is necessary to make them long for mealtime.