Oconto kitchen

(1992 Memoirs)
[The room after that [i.e. beyond the dining room] was the kitchen, which held her sewing machine at the window looking onto an alley.  In the kitchen, the width of the house, next to her machine was the range, where a kettle was kept boiling and from which ashes were carried out in the back yard two or three times a week.  Here was a large table, which when the leaves were up was plenty large enough to lay out pattern and cloth and cut the garment.  On the wall opposite the window was a sink which had just one fawcet but only a drain to a pail under the sink.  This when full was carefully carried to the back yard and dumped along with upstairs slops and ashes.  In the woodshed was a pail where we pinkled before we went upstairs to bed.