Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-03-07
MOST MODERN USE OF THE
MYSTIC CURRENT.
OIL AND GAS OUTDONE
Ard the Familiar Old Cooking Range
suppIanted While Even the House
Is Heated by Electricity and the
Refrigerator Kept Cool by the
Same Agency.

every city where electric power may
be had, can but be directly interested
in what is known as the electric
home, that is a home in which the
mystic current supplies all the utili-
| ties. New York state already has such
home. Other states doubtless are
not behind
The New York electric home Of the
Metropolis is equipped with almost
every modern electrical device, and
1t is a veritable wonderland of mar
vels. The owner. H. w. Hillman,
believes the time is not far distant
when homes all over the world will
be fully equipped with electricity for
| lighting, heating and power as com
monty as oil and gas are now used.
! The greater cleanliness, healthfulness.
safety and convenience of electricity
as compared to gas will, he contends.
result in the universal use of cleo
| tricity.
This remarkable dwelling has cleo
| trio lights in every room, in every
closet, in every dark corner Instead
of the conventional bell burglar
alarm, Mr.. Hillman has an electric
switch next to his bed by pushing
which he can instantly turn on every
light in the house This would ter
rify any thief more than a dozen re-
volyers
In the sewing room. machine run
by an electric motor saves endless
! trouble. On a table beside the ma
chine is an electric fla iron ready for
use at any time In this room there
/ is also a telephone, ana an electric
radiator for auxiliary heating.
the dining room has an electric
chatting dish, a corn pepper. a coffee
| percolator, and luminous radiator.
; In the bed rooms there are electric
heating pads instead of the old
! fashioned hot water bottles which are
! always liable TO burst and produce
disaster. Here, too, are electric
curling irons and fat irons.
The bathroom is an astonishing
place. An electric immersion coil
heats the water. when the house fur
mace is shut down in summer There
is a little boiler to supply hot water
quickly for shaving Here, too, IS an
electric radiator device which costs
but s12, but which Mr. Hillman pro-
! nounces a great comfort when some
| thing is needed to take the edge off
the chilliness of the air. In this
room there is also a massage motor
which can be attached to any mean
/ descent lamp socket and be operated
/ by any one.
/ One of the great features Of this
electric home is the kitchen where
every particle Of food cooked gets its
heat from electricity There is no
kitchen stove, and all the devices for
cooking rest on an ordinary wooden
table. The outfit includes an oven.
cereal cooker, frying pan. vegetable
l5roiler. gridiron and meat broiler. The
oven has a regulating switch for Sc
curing high, low, and medium grades
! of heat, by turn of the handle. In
size it is about The same inside d.
mansions as the old style kitchen
stove. or later designs of gas ovens.
novel feature of this oven is two
glass windows in the door. through
which meat or bread may be seen
cooking without opening the oven.
This arrangement is secured by plac-
ing an incandescent lamp in the back
of the oven.
The electric gridiron is 9 inches hy
3 in, u hut
couple of minutes to get it hot, after
which the most delightful brown cakes
may be cooked in a most convenient
manner The meat broiler is equal
~ pleasing to handle, being regulated
by the switch for two or three heats,
as may be desired.
The cereal cooker is a four combi-
nation device. The first operation
in the morning is TO use It for heating
water for coffee; combination two is
to use il as a cereal cooker; cOmbina-
ton three is to use II for boiling
eggs; and combination four permits
of steaming potatoes, using the per
forated potato steamer This de-
vice may be used consecutively for all
four combinations.
As to the cost of using this form Of
heat. Mr. Hillman thus described his
experience:
Until few years ago the electric
lighting business was confined to the
operation Of electrical machinery at
night There was a most limited use
for it during the day During the
past few years, however, the introduce
tion electric motors for all kinds
of power has created a demand for
operation twenty-four hours per day.
The outfit is used a great deal during
the day time The lighting company
is glad to have me use electricity so
extensively. especially considering the |
time when it is used and for this pur
pose makes me a special price Dur /
ing the past two years have paid !
them about $40 per year for electric !
ity for lighting and heating. as com
pared with the average electric light !
ing bills Of about SO to s35 per year. |
My bills for the electric heating cir
cult have been between SIS to 81 per /
month For gas and coal together !
my bills formerly amounted to So per /
month No effort whatever has Teen I