The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-29


hitchen table by way of stove. She puts
tHe tea Kettle down, turns button affair."
ana In trice the water is boiling away
like mad. A turn of a button and a fry
ing pan Is sizzling or griddle Is ready for
the creamy dough- But for baking and such
matters the cook has an electric oven. the
neat or all parts Of which is under abso~
lute control She mixes her cake with
the electrical dough mixer beats her eggs
with a motor-whirred affair, looks in her
cook book to find how hot the oven must
be, turns hand on dial, and the oven
is piping hot. to stay just at that heat ali
day long, unless the dial of the thermos-
tat Is changed. Next to the electrical
range is a piece Of mechanism dish
. washing machine. This is an arrange
ment of wooden baskets, through which
soapy water Is whirred by an electric
motor. A few seconds OF this soapy
water, then the dishes are soused In
water so hot that when the plates are
withdrawn they dry by their own heat.
The entire process takes five minutes for
meals dishes, or fifteen day for dish
washing which, under the old hand re-
gime, consumed two hours, left the SER
want with temper of her own and hands
red as beets, and charged up to profit and
loss many hicks and smashes in fine china-
ware.
The electrical laundry machinery which
Is there instead of a stationary tub. iron
and the self-boiling oat meal steamer i'm
progressiveness. The servant let's hot wa
ter into continuance, puts clothes and
soap in, touches button. Ten minutes
later she takes the clothes out OF the ma
chine runs them through a self-grinding
wringer, hangs them in the drying CLOSED
heated by electricity TO just the right tenn
| perature, starches them and irons them
| by machinery. Two hours of electricity
acoomplishes two days work by hand.
! and saves the laundresses' compilations,
AS there Is no fire needed for irons. In
gold weather, however. the electric heater
Keeps the kitchen at the same tempera-
tur as the diHing-room or parlor.
The refrigerator Is In it's usual place In
the hall. The two wires have very little
to do with this except by means of ther-
mostat to keep the temperature just above
freezing point. There is no ice in the re-
frigerator, just coil of snow-covered pipe
from the ammonia refrigerating engine,
driven by an electric motor downstairs.
Clean, cold, dry air does the work of drip
ping dirty ice. The iceman never comes.
the pan under the refrigerator never over.
flows, things never spoil over Sunday The
Ice cream and sherberts are made on the
same principle, except that an electric
stiprer does the work of the hand crank.
Down cellar things are very different In
the electrical house from the usual state
OF affairs in the domestic nether-world.
NO coal bins, no ash barrels, no heater,
no kindling wood. A touch on a bottom
and the cellar to its very corners e4eams
with light. IL Is a large, clean. dry, airy
room containing groceries and perishablo
goods and invites you 10 enter as into a
brilliant grocery store. The cellar Is
transformed from the floor to which the
home rubbish settles by domestic gravity.
into neat, light store room. Its tenn
perature Is kept at certain point by the
almost human thermostats, q combinas
ton OF thermometer and some wires
which turn the heat on or off as the mer-
curry varies from fixed point
The advantages of such house over
the hand-power, coal-heated gas-lighted
home of to-day are apparent With cleo
trlcal machinery an hour and half will
accomplish hand work of an entire
day. Bed-making and similar tasks
would have to be done by hand, but 1t il
believed that three Of four hours work
day would complete the average servants
task The absence of any form Of CONS
bustion for heating or lighting not only
does away with coal and ash dust In the
house, but also reduces absolutely the
consumption by fires Of the oxygen or VIZ
tai principle of the air people breathe in
doors. With air not vitiated by fires, the
indoor health of the family would be bet-
ter.
The use Of electricity In the home as far
as safety Is concerned has been made feas-
fble. Insulating devices prevent shocks.
and fusible wires in the connection be-
tween house and street guard against the
rheating of the apparatus within the
house. From the point Of view OF ex-
pense, electricity is not so practicable. It's
cost with the present devices makes 1t a
luxury for heating purposes. Within the
last few years, however, new gas burners
have been made which give four times
the illumination of the old sort and are
using nearly all the heat units In the gas.
The incandescent lamp now gives a light
equivalent corresponding to only one-tenth
of the electrical energy consumed. II Ia
expected that within few years scientists
will be able to utilize the current 10 great
err advantage and to transmit IL profitaoly
10 great distances from water power sta
tions or dynamo houses at the coal fields.
This will make electric heating Of houses
a cheaper operation. The other devices.
however, can be used at the present rates
and prices, and, In fact are already TO be
found TO some extent in homes here ami
In Paris.