Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1914 — MAKE THE KITCHEN PRETTY [ARTICLE]

MAKE THE KITCHEN PRETTY

No Reason Why Most-Used Room In 1 House Should Be Allowed to Look Neglected. A woman who believes that a kitchen should be a pretty room wonders why most people do not bold the same opinion. Of original tastes, she has devised this scheme of color and decoration tor her kitchen. The walls she has had painted a bright sunshinny yellow, the woodwork and chairs a deep Prussian blue, the color of the pattern in her kitchen crockery and the cornflower pattern of her white tiled stove, which has a shining metal top. “We are slaves to the view that a stove must be black and ugly,” she says, “I got rid of this view in a visit to Holland, where I bought my pretty stove."' “ ' i- ' ;■ ■ ~ The windows of her kitchen are hung with sash curtains made of glass toweling barred in blue. At the center of their sills a little square bracket Bhelf has been attached, upon which Btands a gay geranium.