KITCHEN COMPLAINTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)

KITCHEN COMPLAINTS.

If a man with an orderly mind planned tha work of his office as the kitchen work of his house is planned he would soon be in the workhouse or the lunatic asylum. The woman is not entirely to blame. Everything is against her. The average house is not built for convenience; there is no eye to what the business man calls the " lay-out" of the work. Everything i sacrificed to appearance. The coal cellar is too far awav. The distanco between kitchen and diningroom might be shortened. The front door belongs to a different world to that of the back door. The comfort of the housewife does not seem to be considered by the purveyors of household articles. Why should cocoa in tins be wrapped in papor inside the tin? When you open the tin you have to fold back the paper, and I am sure that I lose a spoonful or two out of every tin. Why should pickles be packed in, bottles with narrow necks? 1 opened a bottle of walnuts and tried to "decant" them into i. jar. I'.very walnut had swelled :n the vinegar and was too big for the bottle neck, and not a single one came out whole. Only a small matter, you say, but it is all against the woman : n her dailv struggle. Why should polishes, vaseline, salves, etc.. be in tins the lids of which resist every effort to open? Why should the cold water pipes to the bathroom cistern be so near the wall that the water freezes every time there is a frost? Why shou'a the cistern be in a dirty hole beneath the roof from which I emerge like a scarecrow every time I go to do something at it? 11l short, why cannot our homes be constructed on sensible lines, and the things that women use be better adapted to their ends?