Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 32, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 July 1938 — Winifred’s Kitchen Is Cheerful Place For Work or Rest [ARTICLE]

Winifred’s Kitchen Is Cheerful Place For Work or Rest

By BETTY WELLS

Winifred’s kitchen is the cheeriest place. It has all the conveniences, that’s true, but some way it manages to seem so much more friendly and hospitable than the usual starkly glaring kitchens. That green and white checked linoleum is one reason. And the light crisp green wqlls do their share, too. But w r e think the yellow curtains have the most to do with it. There are two wide tiers of windows, (the kitchen is on the corner of the house) and Winifred has made yellow percale curtains tied back crisply. Then across the top she has valances of the brightest red printed cotton in a Tyrolean peasant pattern finished with rows of bias tape in yellow and green, like a peasant petticoat. The kitchen chairs have their backs and seats slip-covered with this same red printed cotton with five-inch pleated skirts all around. Yellow oil cloth covers table and cupboard work surfaces and the shelves are all painted yellow. The canisters and kitchen dishes are in light green. It’s a big kitchen with room in one corner for a rocker and a round braided rug. “Just for old time’s sake,” laughed Winifred, “though I must say it’s a nice place to sit and sew, read or rest, while I’m waiting for something to cook that I can.’t really leave.” We liked Ethel’s kitchen, too. It’s quite different from Winifred’s—no

bigger than a minute for one thing, with white walls and a plain red linoleum. Ethel cut out stencils of stars in different sizes and painted them bright blue hit or miss over the ceiling with some odd ones on the side walls. White canisters got blue stars painted on them, too. And even the white swiss curtains had bright blue stars appliqued over them. So Ethel sees a lot of stars in the course of her daily duties! Only she calls them the stars in her crown. 3 © By Betty Wells. —WNU Service.