Kitchens Of Long Ago

The colonia! kitchens lasted In piany country houses untü about fifty years Rgo. There are icen and women still living who vlvidly describe their glories. They were ! ,-v, witii heavy rafters lighted by smaiipaned Windows, for glass was a luxurv in those days. The chairs had narrov.-, high backs and rush 6eats. There vas, besides, a rudely Bhaped "settee." The great wood flre burned its prodigiou3 back log in the chimney, and waj never alowed to entirely die out. Banked with ashés in the evening. there was always supposed to be a spark to rekindle into new barnes in the morning. Not long ago a -n'oman died Wbose pride it was to say that in the forty yeart of her married life the hearth fire ..v . once went oi)t. If so diré a nnscance aróse a child was sent ro the nearest neighbor with a shovel to "borrow flre," and from the glowing pine knot relighting was again possible. Along the walls were featoous oí drleJ fruits and vegetables.