Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-10

Wrften Tor NE EvxkrSo STAR
TOWN AIRS AND GRACEs.
Convenient Appliances for Cooking and
Keeping Cool In Summer.
THE COOKING BOX AND IT'S ADVANTAGES TO
woHKN-A MODEL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
IN HousEs-BATH TUBS OF rSDuRATED FIBER
ADVICE ABOUT HEALTH AND COMPLEXION.
We must eat If il is summer, and that neces-
sity adds fearfully to the distress and mortality
OF heated months. 1t is q very serious fact
that many women die every summer from over
work and overheating. They could endure
the work IL 1t were not for the heat Of that
moioch OF cooking stove. Kerosene stoves
are great boon, but even an oil stove equal
70 'ne needs OF family creates oppressive
neat The ideal arrangement is the square,
ciose-shut japanned box, about feet square,
on Tour high legs, under a tin hood higher than
ones head, with pipe connected with the Chin
ney. large entry lamp under the box sup
piles the heat Lifting the cover of the box,
oehold complete cooking battery Of white
ware jars, one with chicken, another with beef
roasting. three more with vegetables and
dumpiings light as sponge. Another pair hold
brown bread loaves steaming to perfec-
| ton; square tin holds loaf Of
white bread which will be finished in
| the oven at one side. Observe the convent
ence. The cooking box is SO high there is no
stopping 70 STIR the food or look in the oven
| lhere Is no anxiety about burning food in
\ these thick pots of fre-proof ware, so nicely is
| the heat adjusted, and consequently no burn
ing or whitening women's faces standing over
| the hre. The box or oven, as you please. is Of
paper pulp, fire proof as IRON with the excel
| DrOnerty n haaf int tbs air
| All heat and odor when opened are drawn at
once into the chimney by the tin hood. under
which one might fry fish without any one in the
next room being wiser. The idea Of the cook
| ing box Is an old one, used by the shrewd
peasantry abroad and approved by every old
writer on the economy of heat, but it has been
improved and developed 1t simply re-
duces the expense of fuel and the heat
felt to the lowest degree, while making
| cookery absolutely an exact science in
practice. The flavor impaired or, rather,
developed in such cooking, the tenderness and
| richness OF meats, the sweetness of bread and
hne quality Of vegetables, is remarkable, and
the gain in substance of food pays for the oil
burned thrice over. The whole process is so
free OF all the evils Of common cooking that
one would imagine women reaching for the
| new invention en- masse, but the intense con-
| servatism of ordinary women in all matters
outside their self-interest stands stupidity una
| ware what a tightening Of their burdens is here
| presented. Such an invention would do more
| for them than the ballot if they only knew it,
| and think the western women will know how
to appreciate it.
| WOODRUFF REFRIGERATOR.
The value Of the cooking ever depends on
the non-conducting property Of paper pulk.
What is good to keep heat in will keep it out,
and the next application of the material is the
convenient refrigerator of compressed wood
pulp. This has the advantage of not needing
L xralla and hi. IL.
into any place, unlike the common behemoth
| refrigerators. The ideal refrigerator Of wood
pulp Is decorated with nickel plate, scrolls and
! OIL pictures, to be ornamental enough for an Or
binary dining room or side hall. To my taste
| the decoration is its only drawback, being too
much in cheap chrome style. When will deal
| ers learn to send out few at least OF their
household wares in severely good and plain
finish to suit artistic notions? But we must
| forgive its panel Of lakes and mountains and
gilt finishes for its lightness and cleanliness till
8ooo taste has Its renaissance in manufacture
| as well as art This refrigerator is a nice thing
| Tor apartments, being oval in ,hape. a yard
high by ~ inches through and ,ighing only
forty pounds. The ice is put the top and
the provision chamber has a f circulation OF
air, with large door which v Ill commend it.
self to every housekeeper.
THE ENGLISH PLAN.
The demand in cities now by families who
have been abroad and found the immense ad
vantage Of some foreign ways is for lodging,
on the English plan, where rooms are let fur
nished and people buy what they fancy fol
food, and the landlady cooks and serves il fol-
a certain sum extra. By this way people ge
more variety and more to their own tastes thar
In the usual clearinghouse fare, with more
economy and entire privacy. They pay the
market price for every article they consume
and only for what they have and pay the
hostess price for cookery and service. Fol
such menages all sorts Of nice, portable, we'll
finished domestic contrivances will be in
| demand-and such a refrigerator this wood
fiber one will not be the least beneft-where
| each family can keep its food with proper san
itary precautions and none Of the ''cold-meat
| suspicious which sound vulgar in English
lodging house novels. With this there will be
no need to keep the babys milk on the window
| sill, or the mammals bottle of porter, il she
must have that detestable compound, or any
keeping ginger pots and Swiss fruit among the
| tooth brushes and medicine bottles in the
dressing closet.
CONVENIENT BATH TUBS.
Next comes the indurated fiber bath tub,
which is boon in houses without complete water
service. 1t is question in country or suburbs.
where the prices Of water service are exhorbi-
| tant, whether tits not best to adopt independent
plans. The cost Of water service would give a
complete set of cisterns, with filters, roof tank
| and bath, with the certainty Of being free from
| water tax for lifetime and the still greater as
surance Of perfectly pure water, not likely to
be cut off by any town emergency. 1 have been
in too many houses where 1.-The water didn't
run" in the very time it was most wanted, be-
cause factories were using it or higher houses
cut of the flow, 30 set high value on NUM-
| cipal improvements This fiber bath tub is one
of the independent fixtures the householder il
proud of. 1t is large size and deep,
nodded in one piece, movable and lined
with white enamel, the outside in
cabinet finish. The material holds the heat
longer than metal tubs, and by a simple lamp
connection the water can be heated in the tub
or a connecting boiler without heating the
| downstairs fre-a great advantage in summer
sickness, when hot bath in case Of cramp or
rheumatic fever is salvation. For well persons
there is no cooling treatment 80 perfect as the
hot bath, which leaves one cool by contrast
| 1t is indispensable in cosmetic treatment A
luxurious fixture is the seat bath, q square tub,
higher back than front, in which one sits at
| such height that wide spray can be directed
against the hips or any part Of the person. not
| administering such a shock as the shower bath.
This spraying is invaluable in spinal diseases
or abdominal disorders, and such an appliance
| well used would often save the expense Of q
Journey for health to comfortless and crowded