Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-07

Inc VIII De IGnteQ
by the same agency.
and 1t is entirely con-
ceivable that a small electric motor will
be made to serve for such purposes as beat
ing eggs and mixing griiile-cakes.
Already electric cook stoves in a number
Of patterns are on the market. You can
even buy an electric chatting dish, which
may be attached at moments notice to
an ordinary electric iignt wire in any house.
These chatting dishes are made in one-quart
and two-quart sizes. nickel-plated. All you
have to do Is to make tha attachment by
a plug-switch. turn on the current and al
most Immediately your oysters are begin
ming to stew or your eggs to frzZle.
Before long householders will take cleo
tricity regularly for domestic purposes, just
as they now take gas But the more subtle
fluid will be made to serve for cooking and
heating as well for lighting. The con-
venience to the housewife of being able
to rely upon one system of wires for fuel
for cooking and for warming and illuminate
ing the dwelling will be enormous. She will
find 1t particularly delightful to be rid of a
hot kitchen in the summer time.
Nowadays the kitchen is apt to be the
dirty part of any house To keep it really
clean is almost out of me question. The
coal used for fuel blackeas everything with
which it comes in conta IT: ashes make more
dirt, and smoke blackens the ceiling aud
walls. In the electrically conducted kitchen
OF the near future it will be quite different.
There will be no coal. no ashes and no
smoke. The range will be ready for cook
ing at moments notice, with no time and
patience wasted in the luxurious kindling of
fire. The turn of a switch will start the
current. which may be shut off again when
no longer wanted.
An electric kitchen in full operation was
exhibited at the worlds fair in Chicago. All
sorts of cooking were lone in it. including
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ing of steaks, the baking of bread ana CAKES,
etc, and the results Were extremely salts
factory. The only reason why this method
of cookery has not alrea ly come into gen.
eral use is that electricity n substitute
for fuel costs more than coal or oil or gas.
The difference of cost, in fact, is consi'lcra-
Bile. but some day processes will be
discovered by which electricity can be
produced more cheaply, aud then even poor
people will be able to ,tfford electric ranges
and heaters
Domestic Luxury.
Meanwhile & good many people who are
allie to pay for the luxury are buying cleo
trio culinary apparatus. 1t is undeniable
that the kitchen thus equipped is joy and
a blessing-free from dirt and noxious
gases, ard cool. Think of the happiness Of
a kitchen that is always cool; of a cook
who is not red in the face and soiled as to
clothing; of q fire that requires kindlng,
o
stants notice! Why, under such conditions
Efe assumes new aspect from the point
of view of the housewife.
With the Introduction of the electric
chatting dish ends the era of the alcohol
lamp, with its dsagreeable odor and liza
bility to overflow and set fire to the table,
cloth. Similar in idea is the electric tea
kettle and stand, admirably adapted for
o'clock tea. The stand is connected with
an electric wire; turn of the button, and
presently the water for the beverage that
cheers without inebr.atiEg is singing in the
pot. Take off the teakettle, and you have
in the staEd suitable apparatus for MAX
ing coffee in bachelors apartment, or for
various Uses in the nursery or sick room.
In hospitals electric contrivances are par
ticularly we'll adapted for heating food,
warming bandages, etc.
1t is said that meats roasted in the cleo
tric oven have all the qualities of meats
cooked in front Of a fire, and they do not
require basting or watching. They are
cooked more evenly and in less time, while
retaining larger percentage of the nutri-
tious juices. Bread is baked in the same
apparatus ideally. No culinary process is
more difficult than to broii in first-class
manner. The coal stove is usually not in
suitable condition, and the gas flame often
ignites the hot fat and burns the food.
The electric broiler does its work without
smuggling the food, smoking it or burning it.
The escaping juices are collected unspoiled
in a pan beneath. so that the cook can
readily basic the meat.
Electric Iron md Curling longs.
Electric cook stoves are made in portable
shapes, like gas stoves. Urns for heating
water are sold for use in hotels, restau-
rants, barber shops and other places where
hot water is constantly required. An or
binary electric light wire supplies the
lcric. Tie electric sad iron is a boon alike
to the laundress and the housewife The
current supplied to it by wire keeps it at
a constant temperature, and thus no time Is
lest in changing and relocating irons One
ilCn may be used continuously, and no coal
or gas stove is required. The iron never
becomes overheated; it always remains
clean and bright, and does not require WHIP
ing to prevent the soiirg of the fabric.
Another blessing for the women is the
electric curling tongs. They can be at
tt cned at a moments notice to an electric
wire, and are heated almost instantly. They
remain at a constant temperature so long
as required, or until the connection is cut
off. All that Is necessary in the employ
ment of this continuance is to remove the
incandesceut lamp from it's socket, attach
the cord of the iron to the socket in place
of the lamp, and turn on the current.
To Warm Dwellings by Electricity.
The time is prophesied to arrive before
long when houses will be warmed in winter
by electricity. What the electric lamp is to
artificial lighting, as furnished by the call
die, oil or gas the electric heater is to artifi-
very different from that of electric cooking.
For the latter purpose the object aimed at
is to provide an apparatus that will localize
the heat as much as possible, combining it
to the spot and not diffusing it through the
surrounding air any more than can be
helped. On the other hand, the ideal heater
fcr warming dwelling or other building
would be itself cool, the heat given off by it
being diffused as much as possible.
OF course, this is scarcely practicable.
But the electric heater Is a great improve
ment IN this respect over the ordinary stove
OF radiator which. while itself very hot, is
apt to warm the air only In its immediate
reighborhood. Stoves and radiators, too.
are uniovely objects to the eye Electric
heaters, on the other hand, occupy little
space and are easily concealed. Some day
such heaters will be distributed over the
walls of theaters and concert halls. form
ing. 1t may be, panels in the wainscoting or
included in the scheme of ornamentation.
Modern warships and mercantile steamers
are nowadays equipped with apparatus for
electric lighting. Before long their dynamo
capacity will be increased so that heat as
well as light may be furnished. One system
nf W{ra will