The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-30


 instance. the carpet sweeper and the
 The offer of the Boston organization
 has brought out number of women de-
 tised machines that are thoroughly en- couraging A man, not woman. has just written an article to prove that the separate loom and bake oven have gone. Some of the exhibits and inventions in the women's department of the Mechan- ics' Fair in Boston look as if 1t were women themselves who will give at least the old fashioned kitchen its final bow ing oat The Educational and Industrial Union ladies themselves took charge of
 the department allotted to their sex at the fair with the object of really bring ing out whatever Is permanently worth while in womans work.
 The s5S prize was was awarded , TOT s the Lydia Coale Sharpiess. Philadelphia | lady belonging to the gentle Quaker folk. | Mrs Ellen H. Richards, of the Massa- knew of the machine. was instrumental
 in bringing 1t before the public at the | fair The chief merits of this invention | are two-first, 1t mixes the bread rapidly | and thoroughly by machinery. thus avoir- | ing the unpleasant hand manipulation and | kneading Considering what too many | bakeries lack in the item of cleanliness. this abollshing of the hand mixing IS Of l itself sufficient to immortalize Mrs. | Sharpless contrivance. But it does much more than that, according to the verdict of the chemical faculty of the University | of Pennsylvania. It doubles the digest l ihility of the bread made by 1t, and that | Is its second great merit.
 One of the most grievous sins of or dinary white bread Is that 1t carries into | the stomach and through the digestive | tract myriads of unburst and consequent l ly undigested starch cells which ought l to have been dextrinized, as the chem- l lsts call it-that is, converted into dextrtn | or sugar of starch-and thus made to | Aa S1Ahr nF khn | body. The ordinary kneading and pound ! ing of bread dough make 1t yet more | tough and make the bursting of the starch cells yet more. difficult Mrs: l Sharpless is said to have experimented | two years in order to get perfect health | bread. She took slice after slice of-ordi- | nary bread and analysed 1t under the
 microscope. She passed polarised light ! through 1t so as to see Ns constituents | She found in each slice large number l of the tiny, shadowy crosses that indi- cate starch cells, showing these to be
 yet in the untrann1rmsd state.
 which should mix the bread very lightly and rapidly. thus not packing the starch particles As now exhibited, 1t consists
 of a box or tank in the middle of which | fit into each other dovetail fashion and
 work spirally. At the top of the tank Ia
 a perforated pan for sitting the Hour | through To use the machine suffi- cient quantity of warm milk and water | and other needed ingredients are poured l into the bottom of the tank. Next flour l is put into the sieve at the top and the rollers are set to revolving by the turn ing of a handle. In three minutes the bread is mixed. not packed, and is left to rise A thermometer at the side Of
 the machine indicates the temperature. No more raw flour need be used when the
 bread is risen and is ready to be put
 into the pans, for made thus instead of
 being mixed by the kneading process 1t
 is not sticky.
 When professors of organic chemistry
 came to examine Mrs. Sharpless' ma
 chine bread, they reported that it was
 50 per cent. more nourfshing than bread
 made in the ordinary way because 1t fa-
 cilitated the bursting of the starch cells.
 They told her this after they had laugh
 ed at the miniature model of her ma
 chine. made. woman fashiona fofs bits of
 pasteboard sewed together. She cut out
 tho pieces and her daughter, a college
 graduate sewed them together. But the
 real machine did absolutely what she
 claimed for it, just the same. The small
 machine makes ten loaves of bread in
 three minutes. A large one-such as the
 United States Government has bought
 for the navy-mixes 1900 loaves in the
 same time.
 When Mrs. sharplnss was a girl at the
 Friends School, ner Quaker teacher,
 woman, said t. her, Lilly, thee needs
 to think" Lilly has evidently been
 HyGienic underwear devised by women
 vas also showr in the same suggestive and instructive departm mt Mrs. Ellen H. Richards has been during her years of lecturiny to rooms full of pupils so l impressed with the necessity of ventlla tor that she herself has invented con | trivance to let fresh air in through a window without letting a draft upon peo- ples heads. Mrs. Richards has another ventlating attachment to be placed above gas burner.
 To one contrivance by wo nan Is giv- en the name of the orderly clothes press" The object of its being is to ad- init of the mrgest number of garments being hung in the smallest possible space | that will keep them from being rumpled. In this convenient closet even shirt waists are kept in perfect shape. We are told: Another friend of her sex has thought out a kitchen cupboard, perfect in It's plan, which is quite new. There, too, l is an infants creeping suit which Is l guaranteed to keep a creeping babys l clothes clean all day and save 90 per cent. | of it's wash biIls. This is indeed a labor
 saving device for the household.
 Mrs Ella Kicker Of Iowa offers to housekeepers the wooden hand to
 which she gives the additional name of | sanitary mixer. IL is claimed to be an l angel in the household in he work of 1 stirring and beating things in the culi-
 nary department. such as eggs, butter