Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-07
a Boon to che Housewives.

housewives of the country and to a
great extent disprove the oft repeated
quotation that "woman's work is
never DONE" is the gas stove.
Though of recent origin, it has al
ready won its way to the front with
the utilitarian Yankee, and no
kitchen is considered complete with
out one in the cities and towns North
where gas is to be had. 1t is gradu-
ally working its way to the South,
end as soon as the Southern house
wives fully understand that it is not
a complicated machine, but real
everyday stove that makes them
independent of striking and imperi-
Gus cooks, it will grow much faster in
public estimation and become here,
as it is in the North--a household
favorite.
The Southern housewife does not
catch on to these labor-saving, time
saving, anti-perspiration inventions
as quickly, perhaps, as her Yankee
sister, because of the well known
fact that the negro has no capacity
for managing machinery, and it is
believed that it will be an expensive
test to attempt to make the colored
cooks masters of these inventions,
and at the same time they know
that the fact of the absence of such
inventions makes Dina mistress of
the kitchen, the heart of the house
hold arrangements, and puts the
housewife completely at her mercy.
AS soon as the fact is appreciated
that the gas stove is not cOmpli-
Gated nor an expensive invention, it
will find its way into Southern
kitchens, and Southern housewives
will not then live in dreaded antici-
patton of the usual strike in the
kitchen in blackberry time, or at
other seasons when her black cook
can get lazy living without work
ing for it. The gas stove is simple
affair, eau be managed as easily as
gas stove, and is inexpensive. The
writer knows one in the city that has
been used for several years in a
family of six persons, for whom all
the cooking was done on this
stove Mt a cost not exceeding an
average of $500 per month, while
the first cost of the stove was no
greater than would have been the
cost of a good wood or coal stove of
similar capacity. Where is another
kitchen of this size that has not a
larger fuel EXPENSE
In cleanliness and convenience the
gas stove is pre-eminently superior
TO any other, while in point of
comfort there Is no comparison,
as the gas stove radiates but
little heat, while it makes no ashes,
smoke or dust, and its safety is a
prime matter when compared to oil
and gasoline stoves. 1t is not exag-
geration to say that a meal can be
cooked on gas stove with half the
labor and but a small per cent. of the
heat of an ordinary stove, the blaze
in the gas stove being applied direct
ly TO the article cooking, without
coming in contact with an extensive
surface to radiate the heat. They
are made in all sizes and for all
classes of cooking - for boiling,
bsoiling, roasting, toasting, bak-
ing and preserving, and the first
cost is no greater than Of any other
good stove. The fire is directly under
the control of the cook, and meats
cooked on this stove are said to be
more nutritious and to waste less
than when cooked on other stoves.
The moment the cooking is COM
pleted the gas is turned of and the
expense stops, and this is the secret
Of its economy-you don't have to
keep fire running one hour to do
twenty minutes cooking. The LEAF
CHRONICLE proprietors have tested
this point and know whereof they
speak. Five years ago they bought
4 gas engine, and although their
work has quadrupled in that time
their power now costs less than one
third the cost Of hand power before
they bought the engine.
In talk with an officer Of the Gas
Company day OF two since he
stated that his company would fur
1ish these stoves at abOaz cost and .
connect them up free 10 consumers,
and that they would make & liberal
iiseount in all bills for gas burned in
ItOves.