Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — KITCHEN MAY BE ATTRACTIVE [ARTICLE]

KITCHEN MAY BE ATTRACTIVE

Simple Decorative Schemes Add to the Comfort of the Cook, Whether Housewife or Servant. So many people are in the habit of regarding the kitchen as a necessary evil that the idea of applying any decorative treatment to it and making it a really attractive place never seems to occur to them. The cook, whether she be the housewife or a domestic, has to spend most of her time there, and if for no other purpose than to make her comfortable and happy—incidentally thereby a better servant — the place should be made as agreeable to the eye as possible. The designers of really well-planned houses now take account of this consideration and adopt simple but well-recog-nized decorative schemes. We have something yet to learn in this respect from old Dutch and German kitchens and also from the kitchen of old New England farmhouses. —Dallas News.