NEW IDEAS IN KITCHEN CLOTHS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 608, 9 March 1929, Page 21

NEW IDEAS IN KITCHEN CLOTHS

Though great strides have beetf taken in recent years to bring brightness into the home, until very lately the kitchen was somewhat neglected. Now, however, it-is this room that is to be specially admired. The kitchen o£ the modern housewife is indeed the very latest idea in laboursaving and attractiveness. Realising, as she does, the many hours that have of necessity to be spent by her domestic helpers' in this room, she sees to it that it shall be just as bright and comfortable as any other room in her home. To her there is no reason why utilities should not be ornamental, and so such prosaic things as dusters, rubbers, and even the washing-up clothes are all individual-looking, with their decorative motifs of embroidery whether it be a monogram or just a little incidental embroidery touch in one corner depicting an article for which the cloth is to be used. The windows of the kitchen are generally curtained with some gay dimity-patterned chintz or checkpatterned cretonne, and the mam colouring in these curtains determines the shade in which the touches of embroidery are to be carried out Quite an attractive notion in the kitchen is the provision of dresser and shelf cloths. Made exactly to fit the dresser, so that there are no unsightly folds, they are easily fixed in place with drawing-pins. These covers proi tect the woodwork, and the wise housewife, of course, has more than 1 one set. These cloths are generally made of linen or crash, in some light shade, and are ornamented in a variety of ways.