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Fitting Shelves to Space And

SERVICE A KITCHENETTE is, as its name implies, a wee kitchen, and so tiny are the kitchenettes in the newest apartment houses that they make you think of children's playhouses. I dubbed my first one a playhouse, for many a luscious bite came forth after a bit of play.

To one whose whole life, in so far as it has touched the kitchen, has known nought but the big old kitchen of her mother, a readjustment of both thought and body is necessary before a kitchenette becomes truly a playhouse. My first real kitchenette - in college days I cooked in one made over from a clothes closet - was less than seven feet long and less than three feet wide with an adjoining supply closet. My present play kitchen measures seven and a half feet by two and a quarter feet, with no supply closet - just dreadful high shelves, of which the topmost one can only be reached from a stepladder - or a box on a chair and the cook on top with arms outstretched, while the sink is so low that she must make a crook of her back to wash the dishes. Apartment house builders and plumbers must all be bachelors or widowers, for, if they had wives, they too would realize the objection to reaching from sky to river bottom every time a meal was cooked.