The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-05-02

lures that make cooking so aggravat-
ing in the ordinary coal stoves. Even
the amateur would find It delight
TO cook under such circumstances, and
she would undoubtedly be unduly
fiattered by the success of her first
experiments, for. as every good cook
knows. half the battle Is won when
the stove Is properly heated and rcgll-
lated.
Places are arranged on the stove for
ten kettles, coffee pots and other i'm
plements, and the heat is concentrated
at the openings, so that little of it
escapes into the room. But. in addi-
ton to this. separate portable broilers.
tea kettles. chatting dishes and coffee
pots are made to use either on top of
the stove or in the dnlng-room, sick
chamber or wherever electric connec
tions can be made. These are ar
ranged with separate coils of WIRE
which can be brought to an intense
heat by simply connecting them to the
wires in the side of the room. and the
cooking can be accomplished IN less
time than it takes TO make an ordin
airy fuel fire. With full supply of all
these cooking utensils one is almost
independent of the large stoves, OK
cept on wash days Even electric
irons are manufactured on the same
principle, the coils of wire being ar
ranged inside of the iron. so that the
implement is kept hot all day long.
The heating of the house by the new
power is another and valuable feature
of the question, and no housewife who
has been burdened with the care and
fore-thought necessary to run steam
or hot water furnaces can fail to ap.
preciate the new system in store for
her. 1t Is as far ahead of steam or
hot water as they are ahead of the
old-fashioned stoves and hot air furn.
aces. There Is no fire to watch, no
| coal to buy or put into the furnace,
no ashes to take out, and above all. no
dust, smoke or gas. The heat is dis
tributed about the house by means of
handsome radiators, and these are
connected with the electric storage
house some miles away by means of
an Invisible wire. BY pressing n but
ton at the head Of the bed ON a cold
morning the heat can be turned on,
| and in few minutes the radiators
will be too hot to touch with the
hand. Within half an hour the house
Will be warm enough on the coolest
morning for one to rise and dress with
comfort. The heat can be economical
at night time in this way. or it can
be kept going all day and night with.
out interruption. The supply is uni.
versal. regular and ready for use at
all times. There need to be no in
tense suffering from the cold at one
time and positive discomfort from the
heat few hours later. The tempera.
ture can be regulated with the same
ease and readiness characteristic of
the kitchen fire just described.
These are the more pronounced bene-
| fits that will be derived from electrici.
ty in the future, when it will cost no
more to install a private house than
it does to-day to put in a steam heat
ing plant and coal stoves in the kitch-
en- and laundry; but there are many
| minor advantages that will accrue as
we become accustomed to the new
| agent. With an invisible power that
can be converted at will into light,
heat or power the tendency will be to
invent all sorts of implements for re.
ducing the Inconvenience of living.
For instance, the sewing machine will
have an electric attachment that can
be employed at any moment to run
the machine as long or as short time
as needed.
Many an overheatcd housewife must
have viewed with envy the electric
fans that cool the air on hot days in
restaurants. and 1t would not be long
before appropriate fans would be
placed in every household for private
use. With the electric power always
ready, it would be no extravagant ex.
penditure to connect the electric fans
on hot summer days. and keep them
going until night brought relief. With
such fans In the kitchen. dinlng-room
and parlor. life in summer would be
robbed of half its terrors, and one
would not have 10 seek the sea shore
or mountains for cooling breezes. The
cost of installing the house with the
electric fans would be comparatively
small after the electric plant itself
was once established. They could
also be introduced in the bedrooms, so
that on warm nights, when slumber
seems impossible. constant current
Of refreshing air could be created for
the benefit of the members of the
household and their guests.
Just at present the question OF cost
Isl the only one that delays the arrival
of this foretaste of the millennium
The production of electricity is too ex-
pensiye to permit of its universal use
in the way described. but there are
important experiments being conduct.
ed to-day by eminent scientists, which
promise to open the field for the Inn
mediate reduction of both the initial
expense of installing building and
OF supplying the house with all the
electric heat. light and power needed.
George E. Walsh. In the New York
Independent.
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