Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — Kitchens in the Tropics. [ARTICLE]

Kitchens in the Tropics.

The kitchens of tropical countries, such as are to be found in our SpanishAmerican lands, are like cells, from the thickness of the stone walls—often two or three feet deep—and the projecting, omnipresent veranda, which gives a grateful shade, and which looks out on a court The cell resemblance is enhanced by the iron bars at the windows and the heavy double doora, which look as if they could resist a siege. The walls are whitewashed and the floors are of tiles. The dining-room is often separated from this room by a long staircase; outside the kitchen, in the court, will stand table and closets, to supplement the scant furniture of the small, hot apartment with a furnace-like fire. Bass—And of which variety is your wife, the clinging vine or the self-as-sertive? Cass—A little of both. When she wants a new dress or a new bonnet she generally begin# intheclinglng-vine foie; If that doesn’t bring the money, then she changes to the self-assertive; apd—well—she .invariably gets the dress oc the bonnet—Boston Transcript.