Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-01
USING A GAS STOVE
There is a Right Way to Go
About It
TO HAVE BEST RESULTS
BUY A GOOD ONE IS THE FIRST
PART OF THE LESSON.
Market is Crowded With Satisfactory
Articles and the Accesso-
TO HAVE BEST RESULTS
Written for The Evening Star.

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The advantage of using gas as fuel has
been so successfully tested within the last
few years that for cooking and heating
purposes it is now almost universally adopt
ed Cafes and hotels first recognized the i'm
mense saving in time and labor obtained by
preparing dishes on the gas range rather
than on the old-fashioned coal affair. There
was no waiting for heat; they got the heat
the minute they wanted it and stopped it
the minute they did not want it. The i'm
portance of doing both these things was so
evident that it Immediately won the favor
of the chefs. Next it was introduced into
the apartment house kitchen. The room
devoted to the culinary art in these suites is
reduced to the smallest possible proportions
So here 1t was found to be an absolute ne
cessity The cook is subjected to the heat
of coal range simply could not stand 1t,
and she soon took her departure, leaving
sorrow in her wake.
In fact, before they were put in these
apartments the servant question was even
more difficult than it is now; the maids re-
fused to live in a place where they were
roasted alive. Then to keep the house cool
and pleasant during the summer months the
ranges were put into the kitchens of private
dwellings. They are now no longer an ex-
clusively warm weather comfort, but an
all-year convenience in these homes. The
trouble which has arisen in the coal district
from time to time during the last few years
will force even the most prejudiced to
make a virtue of necessity by using the
stoves for both cooking and heating pur-
poses.
Gas Not Injurious.
1t is generally thought that a gas stove
burning in the room Is Injurious to the
health. The doctors all agree that such
is the case. If We should treat these stoves
just as we do any other kind of heating
apparatus, all this unhealthfulness would
be avoided. People will sit and sleep in
badly ventilated room when warmed by
steam, hot air or furnace and never attrib-
ute any evil effects to this particular kind
OF heat. Let a gas stove be burning, and
they Immediately imagine the air becomes
vitiated, and the trouble Is laid to the gas
stove. You need ventilation in one case as
well as in the other. A gas stove does not
make the air any more impure than the gas
that is burned for Illuminating You are
accustomed to burn gas for light and know
how much air to let into room for that;
let in as much more for heat. For occasional
use. as in very cold weather or for between
seasons, when large fire is oppressive all
day, they are so much appreciated These
gas stoves are nice to light early Gin the
morning or late in the evening when4Athe
room is not exactly cold, but. just q little
chilly l wonder why it is that so, few of
the bathrooms in even handsome houses
are supplied with a fiue ortta radiator?
When they are the volume is generally so
insuff1clent that so far as warmths7is con-
cerned 1t amounts to nothing. One of the
little gas stoves put in the room for a
minute or two makes the atmosphere de-
lightfuily warm. Gas stoves shorten the
coal burning time in the fall by putting off
lighting the furnace some weeks land by
letting 1t go out little earlier in the spring
In fact, they are the best things In their
way ever invented. Many persons, object
10 the oaor, and from some stoves this is
very unpleasant, but the cause is oftener
TO be traced to the person using the stove
than to the stove itself. A ia me left too
high will make horrid smell in short
time, as the gas is so insidions that much
damage can be done before it is. noticed.
Keep the Flame Up.
Always keep the fame a little above the
frame round which are the gas Jets, as
otherwise 1t will smut the cooking utensils
making them difficult to clean One of the
plain three drum stoves is very. good for
ordinary use. especially If a steam boiling
arrangement for cooking vegetables Is used
on them. This is an affair formed of three
compartments, one above the other, made
ceptacle contains the water which, when
boiling, steams the vegetables in two ket-
ties above. This continuance admits of the
cooking or more things at a time than by
putting only one article on a drum
Be sure when getting a stove to buy a
good oven. as one of those tin, f1imsy, light
affairs Is of absolutely no account. 1t
takes fortune expended in gas to get zone
OF them up to the right heat for baking,
and then ten chances to one 1t will either
not bake on top or will burn at the bottom
Inc range 10 by far better than the stove.
In the illustration Is shown 4 new and very
complete one 1t has six top burners, one
double and five single holes, an oven for