1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Stocking the Cupboard

kitchenette and a cold storage box in his apartment, or one of " the ballroom boys " who has bis larder in a shoe box, nailed to the window ledge, a mental process

is essential. In the process of elimination own menage may be " cut out."

the bachelor with his He knows what he

wants — and if he doesn't, then his butler does. For the others, and the impecunious bachelor mentioned in another chapter, a little gratuitous advice may not be amiss, particularly since it is contributed by scores of bachelors who are guilty of various degrees of house- keeping and by some artists who have the science of hiding a complete housekeeping outfit behind a Japanese screen dow^n pat. " Blessed be nothing " so far as possessions are con- cerned; for there is nothing like starting on a "clean slate," as it were. The bachelors who live in a flat are hard people to deal with when it comes to furnishing the kitchen, for each one has his own pet ideas, culled from nothing In particular, as to what the furnishings of kitchen, dining- room and pantry should include. My sympathies are with the " ballroom boy " who has limited space, limited means, limited acquaintance. To him, stocking his cupboard often becomes a tragedy, because of his inability to distinguish In his blessed in- experience between necessities and luxuries. Some there are who decide that they can do without neces- sities but must have luxuries. Supposing then, that he is " the bachelor Impecunious " who has his quarters 20