Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1888 — AN ARTISTIC KITCHEN. [ARTICLE]

AN ARTISTIC KITCHEN.

Description of the Culinary Arrangements of a Noted Woman. The old-time idea that suffragists are not fond of domestic life and comforts would be entirely exploded if those women who have lately convened in Washington could be followed to their homes. One of them. Mrs. H. H. Robinson, who has always been Identified with the Massachusetts women suffrage movement, has a very unique kitchen. It is built of sheathed hard pine, with rafters overhead, and a big closet at one end, the top of which forms ashelf several feet from the roof. On this shelf are grouped earthen vessels and stone pitchers, with two stone idols, which she calls her Lares and Pen ales. Their most appropriate place is in the kitchen, she says, for here is the fire where the priestess of the household offers the sacrifice and the divine spark is ever kindled. The cooking utensils are bung on these kitchen walls4n designs as artistic as the works of art in a Each article has a placeliPtlie m o£t“ coir vehient nook, and the whole room is a model of labor-saving?inventious and neat, orderly housekeeping, while here nnd there crops out a poetical fancy or old New England legend. In (some convenient place is a pile and a “pencil on which to jot thoughts that come while washing dishes or overseeing the baking. Although on account of the systematic arrangements of the household this modern priestess needs tn spend but lirtle tinie in her kitchen, when die does offer up herself as sac rifice there, the result is such as the gods would appreciate were they to banquet at her dining table.