The morning times., 1895-10-06
1T GIVES PROMISE OF SOLVING
THE SERVANT QUESTION.
Promise of Emancipation From
Daily Drudgery Is Held in
the Subtle Spark.

rays OF light, Sdrlanueu WIKI lloh els, ieu,
blue and green.
She comes TO unbind burdens, to succor
women and horses. There is no service
so exalted that she cannot attain TO 1t, no
service SO lowly she Will not stoop TO It,
She will light the kitchen lire and COOK
the breakfast. She will wash the dishes
and scrub the floors. She Will curl and
Crush the hair. She Will sweep the room
and run the sewing machine. She VIII run
errands and draw the cart She Will pull
and fill the teeth, be the physician anu put
the weary TO sleep. She will play on the
piano or the washboard as desired. She
will amuse the children or entertain the
company. She will tend door or convene
the elements. She Will manufacture eli
mate to order and bring Alpine blasts IN
midsummer to a city Hat.
PLAIN FACTS.
This is not panegyric, blta prosaic cata-
logue OF the duties that electricity is pre-
pared to assume in family life. The stories
of genii and fairies have become every day
facts Aladdin's lamp can be put in work
ing order in every household. The women
of no time have entered into so line herl-
tage, and it is worth while sometimes to
realize the privileges OF the age we i've In.
An anxious mother goes to pay VISIT ana
at Quiet Gnu VI buC W WI Puts anti ibSNsH
to hole in the wall ana assures herself that
the baby is still asleep. A woman lying i'll
in the torrid days of early June could not
be persuaded that the well We're suffering
with blasts that might have blown over the
Inferno, so cool was she frSn the gentle
Zephyrs waited by silent little electrical
fan plying at the head OF her bed. A dinner
under way is about TO be wrecked by the
heat, when a more stimulating climate is or
nd a SILK
cord is attached to an iron, and one iron
will dispose OF a whole wash before stop
ping. To- carry it on to vine-sbeltered
porch or under a neighboring tree is only
a question OF length OF string. One swings
an electric bulb over the arm and goes to
bed to finish a novel. The same green string
may be switched off to the curling irons in
the morning to prepare the crimps for break
fast The performance of the most diverse
duties is only the hooking on of silk twist
ed cord.
A SUCCESSFUL. EXP PERTINENT.
Service SO unusual, yet so intimate and
familiar is almost ridiculous, yet the i'm
pending revolu ton that electricity is
bound 10 make in the household staggers
the Imagination. An interesting expert
ment has been made in Toledo in con-
nection with one of the electric light sta
tons The principal object as the heat
ing of a block Of twenty-seven houses,
controlled by q syndicate, with hot water
obtained from the exhaust steam spared
from the engines used for the electric light.
Women W no regard economy as one OF the
cardinal virtues would be Mortified to learn
how eXtravagant and wasteful men are IN
their mechanical housekeeping. 1t seems
that in producing electricity for lighting,
only small force Of the per cent. gained
from the coal isused. The balance is thrown
away in the waste steam.
In the Toledo experiment this waste steam
was carried into tanks of water, and there
stored, as il were, for heating purposes.
In addition to this there was ten per cent.
more exhaust steam than was needed Tor
heating, and this W as turned into electricity
of low grade and conveyed TO these houses
for cooking purposes. 1t is the boast or
this Toledo block that there is not match
on the premises. The men light their cigars
and the W omen curl their hair by electricity.
Together they make Welsh rabbits on the
malachite and onyx tables of the draw
ing-room, and all the cooks having no
fires TO make lie abed a half an hour later
than any other girls in the street.
ELECTRICAL COOKING.
The most interesting development in do
. nestle life with which women have to deal
is cooking by electricity. Every woman
knows that the kitchen range is the real
nuD Oh tHe uHiNtISC. oO iObS DC tihe iNho
smoothly dynasties may change and ma
lions go under with comparatively little
stir. A change of fuel is a more serious
experiment than a change of sect or party.
The first thing that commends electricity
to woman is its cleanliness For this
gas has prepared them somewhat But
even with gas the products of combus-
ton still oblige the washing of the outside
of the platters. In cooking by electricity
there is no combustion. The heat is merely
localized. This distinction is radical, and
affords the most curious and interesting
feature OF the new process. To cook with
out flame coutradicts the most familiar
of all arts. In getting rid of combustion
goes with it all that accompanies cornbus-
ton, including that exhaustion of the air
of which every one complains, for in the
domestic health is next to cleanliness
A CASE IN POINT.
There is no such thing as an electrical
stove in the sense of the kitchen range.
For example, there is an electrical kitchen
in a commodious Brooklyn home. One ex
periences 4 curious nineteenth century sort
of feeling listening to the middle aged
Irish cook explaining the mysteries of her
switchboard. This is a slab of Numidian
marble in the jut of the kitchen range. On
the marble are hanged the wooden handles
that moved up or down, make or break
baking the family loaf. Thecook is eloquent
over the oven, that with the aid of a
thermometer to tell her when the oven is
just right, and the glass door to allow her
to watch the operations within, never fails
of her expectations. If the baking or
roasting is going on too quickly, she shows
how she switches OFF the current to allow
the oven to cool. This it does evenly, as 1t is
q heated evenly, this perfect balance of tent
perature counting for great deal in these
complicate achievements of the kitchen.
In this case the cooking Utensils are
themselves designed for electricity. They
stand ranged in the shelved dresser.
Here there are tea-kettles, boiler, stew
pan, fariDa Kettle, coffee-pot, of copper
lined with tin, and for table use nickel
plated, each with its twisted cord and
separate generators tucked away some
where inside. These articles can in fact
be used anywhere there is a chandelier
or bracket for electric light. The proph-
etc eye can at once see in those domestic
cataclyisms that have been known to fol-
low an excursion, ball, or wake, what a
simple matter it would be for the ne
elected and balf-awake master and mis-
tress to cook their breakfasts handily
on the breakfast table. In point of fact
for the odors of of vcgetab les and meats
there's no other reason why dinner should
not be cooked on buffers tray by the table
side when the duty of cooking fails on the
mistress, and it can be done with the same
grace that is iavishcd on the nocturnal chat
ing dish or an afternoon tea.
THE LAENDRESS' FRIEND.
In the long, low laundry, looking out on
a pleasant vista stood three irons, hitched
to the wall by green strings, where the
weeks wash was going on TO its final inn
maculateness. The boiler which had done
with them was standing by. This was tall,
roun1 and mounted on oil oct ris.z Of nd