So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Friday, November 13, 2009

The Maid's Transformation

By Andre Hansen

The Antique Hoosier cupboard from the nineteenth century in typically considered the ancestor of the Kitchen house maid cabinet of the early twentieth century.'th C cabinetry usually reserved space to accommodate items like flour, sugar and other staples. The year'12 saw the advent of the Kitchen house maid cabinet. One can still find the name Wasmuth-Endicott Indiana, on some older models, although a little time after World War two the company started to be called the Kitchen maid cabinet Company.

Much of what make up that world has passed into history, included in that parade into oblivion are old-style kitchens. As World War I ended in'19 the company began to try to improve on the conventional country-style design with innovations like the porcelain top. The year'24 saw a 'standardized unit system' version of the Kitchen house maid cupboard make an appearance in the catalog put out by the Wasmuth-Endicott company.

Like many products sold'49 the firm's products were now characterized as swish, modern and practical as opposed to quaint and charming. Firms started to make excessive sounding claims for the products based mostly on made-up words and startling new findings in their research labs and factories. Kitchen maid leapt into the competitive claims arena with the descriptions Flo-Line Styling and Composite Construction. The company additionally told its buyers that its products now included grain-less Presdwood and Resinite Doors.

The words Composite Construction did serve to describe a significant invention to its products. Not only aluminum, but plastic was being mixed with the traditional hardwood in what was considered leading edge at the time. Nor would they be very fashionable.

At one point the busy housewife would simply lift bags of sugar or flour in and out the cupboard as the requirement arose, no longer. The victory of the first human in space took a rear seat to the advent of fold away kitchen cabinets in'59, at least in the kitchens of America.

Metal Drawer Inserts were built right into her drawers with sealed sections and lids that fell. The doors seem to be too thin to fit any sort of nail or fastener. Maybe in its haste to enhance the antique versions from centuries past a lot of skillful rewarding knowledge was lost along the path.

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