The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-26

o." said Mrs. Miggs. lis the heatin'
M lightin'. There's nothin' prettier
than an open fire. and ] want fire
places. But. pa. don't you know, they
don't heat a house properly? You can
toast your face setin' in front Of 'em,
an still hav a shivery back"
"Lor, ma" said Joshua Miggs. that
Is easy. We can have the house as
tight as a drum, an as hot as you
like"
But that won't do" exclaimed Mrs.
Miggs. We've got to ave fresh air.
We'd all smother without il. Only
there mustn't be n 10 drauShts."
That Amt so easy" said Joshua
Miggs. doubtfuIly. Plenty o. heal and
Mandy. l don't see how we can man
age it,"
An while we are at IL. I want ii dis
tinctly understood hat there ain GO
in TO be no coal oil lamps in this
house. I've seen a heap in the papers
about some new gas light and them
gas stoves that everybody in town is
usin'."
"All right. ma. I'll go and see that
gas Teller right away"
Russell ). Feurtado. secretary and
manager OF the Butte Gas Light n
Coke company. when the case was ex-
planned to him, remarked that IL vas
perfectly simple. w can heat our
house with gas economically, as well as
furnish reliable gas cookers for cook
ing urposes which we will either sell
or rent, and at the same time save you
money and annoyance by furnishing
o with gas for lighting purposes. OF
course, from our name-Gas Light n
COX company-we sell COX as well;
but our customers are finding out that
gas is the cheapest for cooking. heat
ing and lighting. The use of gas cook
ers is not only a saving in labor, but
is also the saving of the food as wei.
The slow, dry process of the coal stove
causes a great shrinkage in meats,
while the rapid, quick action OF the
process of cooking by gas reduces
~shrinkage to a minimum. 1t will not
be long until artificial gas will be uni
versally used for cooking purposes.
Your house will always he neat and
clean. and cleanliness is mex to Godli-
ness"
Lighting the Residences.
All sorts of inventions, manufactures.
etc, for years have been offered again
and again. and will be for years to
come. but nothing yet has approached
the reliable brilliant Welsbach gas
light. No breaking of machinery or
belts when using gaslight. against the
unreliability of electric light.
And with the coal oil lamps. there is
the daily cleaning and filling. the
breaking of expensive chlmneys at the
worst possible moment. There are wicks
To be bought n every now and then
renewed. And then there is the odor
that permeates the house. and the risk
of explosions.
Now. see the contrast by observing
what the Gas Company offers. The
moment you enter your hall, your bed
room. your dining room, your kitchen,
even at midnight. when all is dark and
still. you simply apply a match, and.
presto. a flood Of light, opalescent, odor-
less. Is diffused throughout the room.
You turn it off as soon as o are
through with II. If a comparison be
made alongside the cost of other arti-
fetal light. II will be found that gas
holds the inside track for the consum-
er.
And all this is lone by the same in
s~tTumentality that cooks your meals
and heats the home. The expense can
be regulated to a nicely. and with the
quarter-in-the-slot meter you can know
daily what YOU expense is.
The reading of a gas meter is simple.
Any person can read 1t and know just
how much gas is being consumed.
Electric light meters? Ii takes an
expert to read them, and If you are not
an expert you don't know how much
light you are using. Then, again, with
the Welsbach gas light burner you get
four times the light from n Wells
bach gas lamp for the same amount of
money as you will from a 16-candle
power electric light.
You will find and admit that, all
things considered, gas, the old reliable
light; is the best from every standpoint,
whether II be economy, safety, RELIABLE
ity. cleanliness. efficiency or beauty, I'M
der the handling of the careful house
wife. a little child or the indifferent.
Then I'll tell you" said Joshua
Miggs. Il leave that all to you, seem
yulI know what we want"
So the wonderful Miggs mansion had
plenty of heat. perfect ventilation and
no draughts, and VAS lighted by the
Butte Gas Light and Coke company.
Making the House Beautiful.
What kind Of paint are We goin' to
use on your new house, joshua asked
Grandma Miggs, after pretty much ev-
erything else had been settled.
There was a moments silence, and
then Joshua Miggs spoke up, rather
feebly n very uncertainty. Really.
/ don't know. Grandma. l s'pose I'll
just use paint
1tSs L hltNs sdlh 'hdltuliid' buN
what kind O. paint?'
why paint" said Joshua Miggs
again. still more feebly. Paints paint,
amt it?" he added.
Grandma snorted. IL wasn't exactly
the thing for an old lady with white
hair to do. but Grandma was very EN-
phatic sometimes.
Yes. paints paint" she said, but
some paint amt paint"
Just at this time Sarah had something
to say.
Pa" said Sarah, Il don't think | can
offer any suggestions about building
the house, or about how the outside
ought TO look, but / wish you would
let me have charge of n thing
What's that" asked Joshua MigGs.
'Ornamenting the inside of IT," said
Sarah.
But what do you know about orna-
menting a house," said her father, teas
ingly.
Not very much" said Sarah, frank
ly, but l have some ideas about IL, and