A manual of home-making

A one-piece enameled iron sink, with high back, will prove a satisfactory appliance. This sink should be large enough to hold a dishpan conveniently. Dishwashing will be more 'quickly accomphshed with the double drain-lx>ard before mentioned than if a single drain-board is used. Enameled iron drain-l>oards arc not advisable. They are more showy thap serviceable^ for; l}esides being noisy, they are too small to be useful and too hard to be safe for dishes. Suitable drain-boards may be made of ash or of maple, or they may be made of some other wood and covered w^ith zinc. For the purpose of shedding w^ater, w^ooden drain-l)oards should be grooved and zinc-covered boards should tje provided with a curbed or raised edge. Furthermore, a drain-board should slope slightly toward the sink, on I lie rini of wliich it rests. The resulting board level is about 1 inch above the sink level. The construction of sink-boards requires the most careful workmanship. The use of wood for draining purposes subjects it to the severe test of being continually wet on one side only. In order to avoid warping and splitting, therefore, a sink-board should \ye thick, heavy, and wx^U cleated on the underside. A surface finish that will render the l>oards water-resisting should be applied before they are put into use. Usually sink-boards are varnished, but this finish water-marks, weai^ off, and on the whole is less serviceable than a surface finished with wood filler, followed with hnsc^ed oil. The sink should be supported from the wall, rather than on 5^ and should be piped, if possible, through a partition wail L MANUAL OF HOME-MAKING rather than through the floor. A sink should be set at a height conv^cnierit for the worker — 'M inches from the floor is a good averaice height, The usual height of 30 inches to the top of the rim is too low for most persons. d I DISCUSSION OF PliANS (figs. 35-38) The plan of a farmhouse kitchen that has been developed in accordance with the principles of kitchen planning previously described is shown in Fig. 35. It will be found to work out satis- factorily on each of the essential matters of use, location, size, nunil>er and location of doors, number and location of windows, and organization of work. In this kitchen, coal or wood is used for fuel, and the cfiuipnient is moval>le. In Fig. 36 is sliown the arrangement of a kitchen in a suburban house. In this case, gas is used for fuel, and the equijiment is built in. This arrangement also will be found to stand the tost on the points essential to good planning.