The cabinet must be able to fulfill these conditions: It must be easily moved if on castors, it must be easily taken apart, drawers must run smoothly, racks to hold things must hold things, they must hold enough things, too, to prevent relay kitchen races. The wood cabinets are excellent, the steel we think a degree more self-protecting because they cannot absorb odors, or get vermin investitures. However, the best grades of wood cabinets are so perfect that we can endorse them ungrudgingly. The cabinet must have: Supply closets, china (nearly every case), molding boards, work table, cutting board, linen receptacle, pot, pan and lid holders, bread, cake, spice, sugar containers and flour and bin shifter devices. All other departures are specialties and are more or less inviting according to the buyer. There is a cabinet, remember, for any space as well as purse. Get the best of the best dealer and make yourself sure that the one you are getting is the least complicated and the easiest to keep clean. They range in price from around $50 up to the thousands. But no matter what they contain, or how thrilling they look, unless the cabinet itself is the acme of fine workmanship, you will be in constant irritation over warping parts, dust and uncleanable surfaces. CHAPTER XXVIII WHEN THE POT HANGS HIGH My text is “one kitchen tool hung up is worth two in a low cupboard”--taken from The Kitchen Libel--Chapter 1, Verse 1. This may not look like a technical chapter--like one with a lot of mechanical information--and it really isn’t--it intends to get behind technicalities and be a radical (don’t fear the word) over-hauling of women’s opinion on the disestablishment of old forms of kitchen usage by very slight changes in kitchen arrangement. For years kitchens have been built with closets for kitchen pots built in “below the belt” with pernickety little doors with cranky little locks. For years these closets gave the kitchen denizen or housekeeper herself all the rhythmic exercise necessary to the development of backache and nerves and sense of touch. Into these closets you had to feel for the pan you wanted and then often had the musical treat of hearing them crash down behind something, and you must needs kneel in prayerful posture to extract the necessary pot or pan. If there were ever a condition in the kitchen so uncongenial to the Woman-Doing-Her-Own-Work, it’s this hidden pot and pan game. If the carpenter has learned how to save his back, why not the housewife, who not only does cooking but also a hundred other things. Avaunt ancient superstitions and affections about dark low-set closets and come out in the open on high with your utensils and whether you have a maid or not, some one’s back will be preserved, if not for higher for more things! THE ARGUMENT FOR HANGING