Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1897 — AN IDEA FROM AFRICA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AN IDEA FROM AFRICA.

Cupboard for I’se Between Kitchen and Dining Room. Yankee notions of convenience are not so confined to Yankee- land that a description of a household contrivance from far-away Africa would fall to prove interesting to housewives. In a Morocco hotel, whose stone walls are very thick, there Is a long dining-room and a kitchen adjoining. With a direct communication between the two rooms, both odors and sounds might pass disagreeably between the

two; this Is, however, obviated by a revolving cupboard or dumb waiter placed between the two rooms. The wall Is about 18 inches thick. By permitting the cupboard to project slightly into the room, a circle of two feet and a half or three feet is secured. This is occupied by a revolving drum or cylinder four feet high and divided into two shelves. There is an opening down one side only. When this is toward the kitchen the closed back of the cylinder faces’the dining-room, and, aa it is made of highly polished mahogany, and the cupboard opening la finished at top and bottom with window casing, the appearance Is not at all bad. When the cook has placed the dishes for one course upon the two shelves of the drum a touch of the Auger whirls It noiselessly about, and tint waiter on the other side has only to take the dishes off.