Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-08-23
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST %. 1898.

fused and coffee made By electricity, and
shas vithcus poise, dirt or dareef, they
vusu lihs shs oussn cf Sheha u Jerusalem
-uo muse spirit q douhe In them And
even the capacity for wonder seems to he
para1ynod for aWhile By the common
vsraics ths grsasas& voader b Professor
ElishA Gfay's telAntngraph. or long dis
tsnes writing rerroducef. 70 use rough
trazalattcn- Ths ssodes of . lefter uses
n ordinary pencil 70 vhisA swo small
cuas sso asenehed The receiving pen IS
Q e.pfllAxy glaas snhs of Ink And by =
eumplicnasd pfccso which, In my present
ssAss Of knoWisdge I shall nos attempt TO
sxpaain, svsRy motion At IL writer's
pescn y rsprodunsd b. tAas Ink tubs
Thses b No laying q mistakes On the
opseatoe. II ons WHOSE early education
has hsua neglected, complains that
..munny y IL" why 'munny il tite" At
The Other eaA Of the line. and in precisely
the sAms handwriting. 1t really does not
lack much Of being . miracle.
Yoa can write any way you like. Greek.
aanskrit or shorthand II you know how.
aud all the accents and poshooks viii re-
appear. Even these lines Of mine, war
ransed to produce profanity in any print
ing Office IA Christendom. would reappeAr
with all their dips, spun, angles. varia-
lions and sinuoeities- The tremulous agi
tation Of the lover in . letter Of proposal,
the slleged backstnoke Of hesitation by q
writer Who Is telling q lie, the delicately
soundsd letters OF the dileteante who Is
more pics than earnest, all rcappear with
truly dnscrupulous accuracy. lshouldn's
shink ol using the thing myself 1t would
b Ike anticipating the judgment day.
-.
n women take great interest in the
cooking department And small wonder,
for cooking remains the one drudgery OF
woman 70. which science seems TO have
given little or NO relief There are eiec-
trical ovens made Of wood and lined with
asbestos 70 prevent radiation Of heat. In
each u an fncandescrnt lamp and through
a door one can note the process Of cooking.
Wires check the passage Of electricity and
Il u psodnce heae, and one can raise or
io ~ b q viii or turn the heat this way
or that. instead Of turning the turkey
over when one side Is roasting the faster
the heat is turned on the other side 1t is
the Ptoleusaic system OF the universe, by
which the sun went around the earth re-
the meat before the fire, the fire goes
around the meat. And to crown all. the
lady who operates IL insists that even now
electricity Is cheaper ia city than coal or
wood. We'll IN the language Of the
'.amen corner" May the Lord grant itf'
There ars all sorts of curious household
and kitchen ppliance on the same line.
There Is fiatiron in which perfectly
even heat can be maintained. There is
cloth cutting machine in which the cut
ting knife follows line marked out for 1t.
There l. an electric incubator In which Is
enough to ma ke q hen ashamed OF herself
BY the percentage OF eggs from which
chickens are hatchAi There is an electric
boot-blaeker There sSe devices to regis
ter the speed Of ship, wagon, a car or q
running horse. In short, everything Is to
60 by electricity in the years TO come.
There is to te no smoke and very little
noise: the kitchen is TO be as nice rs par
loP and labor is to be an art, our wives are
70 be always cool and clean and good
humored and run TO meet their husbands
t.xith rosetudls in their har" tlrving), and
the only Law in the household is TO be the
law OF love, Hal-lce-ioo-yah!
But when a man walks out Of there and
looks northwsri and sees the great pail OF
smoke over Chicago, and when he gets
down there in that tangle Of railroad
.rae H. and is distracted by the bang al
!, ar. and considers that all the nice thing
~ electricity are only to be after
awhile" "he almost feels resentment at the
.iext generation. What has posterity
ever dome for us.n as Sir Boyle Roche
asked, that we should DO 80 much for
them" Truly. posterity will have a nice
,isne ut our expense. and why can we Dot
,.pvisG some way TO get part OF It nowf
But on second thought will NOT com
plain Of posterity. At all events we shall
have the responsibility of their being here
and so let's do the best we can for 'eD.