![]() She did an experiment that proved that in a kitchen with her layout, a strawberry shortcake could be baked by taking just 45 steps, instead of the usual 281. Lillian redesigned the kitchen layout into an L-shape so that women could cook more efficiently. In the 1920s, women were spending up to half their day in the kitchen. “If the only way to enter a man’s field was through the kitchen door, that’s the way she’d enter,” wrote Frank Jr and Ernestine in Belles On Their Toes, the sequel to Cheaper By The Dozen. But because a lot of companies didn’t want to do business with her, being a woman, she turned her focus to kitchens. Lillian continued working as an efficiency expert. Now nothing could upset her because the thing that mattered most had been upset. “Now, suddenly, she wasn’t afraid anymore, because there was nothing to be afraid of. In Cheaper By The Dozen, Frank Jr and Ernestine wrote that their mother changed after their father’s death, losing her fear of fast cars, aeroplanes and walking alone at night. Their youngest child, Jane, was just two. ![]() Then, in 1924, Frank had a massive heart attack while in a phone booth talking to Lillian. ![]()
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