Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1907-12-30
OVEN TO KEEP BABY IN
Can Be Used Also as a SetteC
or lcebox.
HAS SEVERAL ADVANTAGES.


Tsaehsrs' College Evolves Apparatus
That Will Fit City FIats-Whsn
Cooking You Simply Lock Heat In.
Since the exhibition Of flreIess ovens
at Teachers college In New York 9
year ago the domestic science depart
ment has been progressing until Miss
Helen Kinne the head Of the depart.
ment, believes that she has obtained
the acme of all cooking apparatuses.
The new style oven may be used for e
settee for the library, an icebox or q
crib for the baby, besides having many
other advantages.
When a New York Sun reporter
went to the college the other day and
asked to see the new wonder a girl
clad In Bingham dress and long whlte
apron met him at the door Of the labo
ratory.
what, our new oven? OF course
will show it to you. Just wait till
wash this dough Off my hands. You
see, this Is bread day"
She was gone for a minute and then
led the way to an inner room, would
you believe It," she remarked, that
dough that | scraped of my fingers
just now was about equal to an egg
or Ave olives or four tomatoes or one
cabbage or eight prunes or a potato
or banana or a quarter of glass OF
cream-that is / mean so far as the
heat giving properties are concernedi
But you came to ask about the oven.
Oh, yes, here it is!'
She perched herself on a dark stain.
ed window seat about four feet long
Two sofa cushions rested on 1t.
won't you be seated on our ovenT
she asked demurely. The reporter GIN
gerly sat down.
1--WE think here that we have one Of
the greatest inventions of the age"
she said ut IL especially designed foI
city fats, where many Of our gradu-
ates go after they leave here. 1t can be
used for so many things. 1t can be
kept In the library just as we'll as in
the kitchen. In the morning the cook.
ing may be done in 1t. In the after.
noon and evening 1t may be made up
as crib for the baby. In the summer
time 1t is the simplest thing imaglna.
BILE to turn 1t into a box in which you
can keep nice cool drinks or even
freeze Ice cream.
How does II work? 1t goes on the
principle that there are certain mate
rails which will not conduct heat
When you are using this box to cook,
you simply heat in water whatever
you are cooking, place 1t I'm the box
surround 1t with nonconductive mats
and there you are. The heat can't get
away, so It has to cook the meat or
vegetables. Just let me lift the lid"
The lid was lifted and revealed In.
side box apparently filed with small
mattresses.
"A pot roast win cook in this IN
about three hours" she said. 'Vegeta.
bles take somewhat less time. Not
bit Of heat gets out in the room on the
hottest summer day. and the cooking
may be done In the library while you
are sitting on the oven reading a book
"But it has another advantage. Sup
and don't want the woman next door
to tell all the neighbors that you have
cabbage three times week. The FIRE.
less oven Is the solution. Not an odol
can escape. Our investigations have
also proved that large part of the
nourishment in the cabbage escapes 10
the steam when 1t is boiled on a gas
stove. Use the hreless oven and your
husband gets more nourishment than
he would otherwise and cabbage "a
often as he wants 1t without the neigh.
bors remarking about It. But now
watch me-"
She made few deft manipulations,
and the interior OF the box was chang, |
cd. The sides rose up on either side
protectingly while In the center looked
to be a bed soft enough for any child.
Now you have done your mornlna
cooking, and baby is tired and wants
to take his nap" she continued. Ria
the oven like this. These mats make
the most comfortable bed In the world |
The sides come up high enough, You
see. to keep the child from falling out |
while the whole thing is constructed
along the hygienic lines that are taught
down In the nursery department, You
can put II In the bedroom, use 1t for an |
oven and window seat In the daytime
and for crib at night II you want to
You can fix 1t so as to put the baby to
bed In 1t while you are cooking II you
want to. This perhaps is not advisa.
bic In summer, as a very small amount
o. heat is likely to get through thu