The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-11

1t Eliminates the Disagreeable Fea-
lures of Culinary LabOrs.

New York Morning JouEnai
If electricity is to solve the rapid transit taa
equally important service for women.
Is the agent which will deliver the mouse
trained or entirely unframed servants. and
1t will raise domestic labor to the lever or
the sciences, if not or hign ar.s' uy
eliminating the elements OF druggery from
kitchen work. If anyone doubts that the
culinary millennium is at hand, let ner VISIT
the celebrated exhibition and see mousse
These are some of the disagreeable fea-
lures OF kitchen work which electricity Will
destroy: Wood boxes, coal scuttles, chop
of ashes, smoking of chimneys, waiting for
the coal to CATCH" uncertainty heating
sSs Set H tn res IN uy Similar
tribulations which have whitened the hair
and furrowed the foreheads Of many gen.
When every wdl-regulated home is pro-
vided with an electrically equipped kitchen
the nousekeeper's day will begin with the
electric kettle. In eight or nine minutes
quart of water will be boiling, ready to
make coffee, ready to boil eggs, and ready iy
cereals What does it matter whether or
not the cook gave warning" and left the
night before? A breakfast of sliced or,
anges, wheatena and, cream. scrambled
eggs, French bread and coffee is not to be
despised, and the electrical kitchen makes
Dinner is Scarcely reel more dificuit to pre-
pare The electrical kitchen has an oven.
with one. two or three compartments. Each
compartment may be heated TO the tenn
perature required for a certain dish. Meat
may be roasting in the lowest, bread bak-
ing in the second and some light variety
OF pudding cooking in the third, each one
having just that degree of heat requisite
for bringing 1t TO the highest state Of per-
lection.
The electrical cooking appliances take UP
very little room. A long, broad table of
slate. provided with narrow SHELF will
stands which support the pots and i Kettles tH
for boiling, an electric broiler and chatting
dish. Each utensil has. as it were. its own
stove: 1t is not necessary to turn on all
the electricity In the establishment to broi
chop. The broiler has its own connection
with the source of heat; SO has each of the
The electric iron will commend itself to the
laundress. Like everything else in the es-
adjustment, 1t is connected directly with the
until the current is turned off. There is no
running back and forth to the stove for
fresh irons. Every iron is its own stove
and one viii press all the clothes of an en-
tire family. Small dressmakers' irons Of the
same sort are also shown.
The first cost Of ALI these appliances is
not small In addition to the cost of the
connections with the electric supply the
utensils themselves are expensive. To fit
500 or SIPS must be spent. But the apart
ment house builder who frs. introduces cleo
trio batteries and slate tables into his kitch-
ems Will have no cause to regard his ex-
penditure as an extravaganza, for he will
nave to turn away would-be high-paying
tenants by the score.
When the drudgery of building fires and
cleaning stoves is taken away from house
work and the discomfort of working in an
overheated room is removed, the ayera ge
woman does not feel herself totally at the
mercy Of her cook. She will not object to
doing her own cooking In an emergency AS
for the cook, she ceases to be drudge, and
becomes a skilled laborer, the professor of
an exact science, an electrician. And who
| shall say. when these two miracles are
brought about that the servant girl problem
/ Is still unsolved?