COOK’S CUPBOARDS V. KITCHEN DRESSERS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2340, 9 January 1926, Page 6

COOK’S CUPBOARDS V. KITCHEN DRESSERS.

Tho doom of the fixed kitchen dresser, which is really a dust trap was finally sealed when cook’s cuphoards, or kitchen cabinets, as they aiie sometimes called, appeared upon the market. As time goes on, and labour-saving houses are built in greater numbers, there is no doubt

that the dresser will disappear altogether from the architect's plans. The advantages or the kitchen cabinet are almost too numerous to mention. The chief attraction, of course lies in the fact that all necessary culinary utensils are immediately to hand involving no unnecessary labour. The top shelves of the cabinet have storage accommodation for china or glass in dally use, but the doors, with which every shelf Is accommodated

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prevent the ingress of dirt and dust These doors' on their Inner side are usually fitted with racks for seasoning jars and cookery books, and a ‘lining’ consisting of various useful charts with kitchen information, food values etc. Between the upper and lower shelves of the cabinet the flour bin is usually fixed with a rotary sifter. This pulls out for refilling. The space on each side of the flour bln is occupied by glass or enamel food containers. The inner side of the doors of the lower shelve* like the upper shelves, are fitted with racks holding canisters for dry groceries. Below the shelves is the kitchen table, which in the most expensive cabinets can be fitted with a vitreous porcelain pastry slab which pulls out for use. Below the table are drawers of various shapes and sizes. There is fisually a baizelincd cutlery drawer with partitions for knives, forks etc., and a smaller drawers for bread and cakes, which so there are commodious tinllned drawners for bread and cakes, which keep their contents fresh for days, and a roomy pot-cupboard lined with zinc. The door»of this cupboard is again fitted with a rack for saucepan lids, taking dishes etc. With a cabinet like this, the kitchen requires practically no other furniture. When work is over for the day the cabinet can be entirely closed down, and it then becomes merely a handsome piece of furniture, which is an acquisition to any room.

The new coat-like tunic, for evening wear is almost as long its the skirt at the back, sloping upwards towards the front. It may bo fashioned in embroidened chiffon,, beaded georgette, or in lace. The ornamental fastening is placed at an almost normal waistline

WOOD WORM IN OLD FURNITURE Mony people are troubled when they find worm holes in articles j>{ old furniture. As a matter of fact. It Is difficult lo find any old piece that has not got a few wormholes. Fruit wood and even oak two or three hundred years old are seldom entirely free from it. But, provided the worm Is no /longer active, there da (nothing /to trouble about. Even commercially, worm holes do not depreciate the value of old tables and chairs. If the worm is' living, the wood should be treated with paraffin oil Take a pen, dip it In the oil and put a drop of the oil into each worn hole. This is a slow process, but certain lu its results, A thorough washing with paraffin oil or carbolic oil will oftsa prove sufficient. -0.1.