Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-11

to many other purposes. Sewing ma
I chimes can now be CONNECTED up" to
electric wires running into the house,
and one of the severest domestic
drudgeries is done away with. A small
motor is clamped on the back of the
machine, and all a woman has to do
is TO depress the freddie in accordance
with the speed she requires the machine
to he driven at. For rapid work on
light material the treble is pressed far
down; for slow, heavy work. only a
slight depression is made. The ocono-
my In the use Of the sewing machine
represents saving of health TO the
worker. Many physicians win not per-
nit women TO work at ordinary sewing
machines. But. with electric motors to
drive the machine, a woman has Moth
Ing to do now but guide the material
and keep the bobbin full
DISH WASHING MOTOR.
In number of the big hotels. elec-
tricity Is used for washing dishes, cut
ting cabbages. peeling potatoes. sharp
ening knives, and other purposes. Small
motors are attached TO the machines
which do these things, and the work Il
accomplished far more rapidly than
by the ordinary process The employ
ment OF electric motors In driving labor
saving machines has already proved IT.
self so useful and economical that
every day many electric installations
are made; and I'm no case has there
been n return to other methods which
are already pronounced odd fashioned,
DOMESTIC NECESSITY.
OF course. for several years cleo
tricity has been used in many big
manufacturing plants for driving varl-
Gus kinds OF machinery, such as lathes
and lifting cranes. but It has only
been within the last year that us gem
eral application TO domestic work OF
all kinds has made such headway. In
a large number OF diaries the churns
are now driven by electricity; and sew
eral bakeries are using electricity es-
pecially for beating eggs and mixing
the material for cakes, whore high
speed is required
GIVES CHEAP POWER
In Germany particularly In the dis
trict OF Westphalia, several agrlcul-
tural operations are carried on wholly
by electric methods In Baden the
threshing and straw -baling machines
are electrically driven and many of
the dairy farms are equipped with
electric power, In switzerland, nearly
everything Is done by electricity now
adays All the big hotels at the tops
OF the mountains have electric kiteh-
ems, and most of The work Is done nv
electricity even 10 sweeping the car
pets, Owing Ia the high attitudes of
most OF these places in Switzerland n
would be almost impossible TO use an-
other power. the expense OF rettins.
coal being TOO great; hut. with NE
number of waterfalls which are scat
tered throughout the country. any
amount Of cheap electric mower n,ne
he had. Turbines are placed nj mo-,
of the fails on the same prlnclnle ny
those Installed an Niagara: and ,vi,'a,,
take the electric power up Inc nam
Jams EleciTicity IL IA use in ain the
Swiss laundrios and hotels. ANA n ~
me one country in the world whars
housework has ceased to be drld-
gerry
ON several OF the Swiss ana C;e,,non
farms where olectric power Is NOT IN
stalled direct they make their n,va
power by bringing the water m A.
high pressure tanks. supplied by an mn.
lomaucAlly controlled eloctric.driyon
pump the water being pumped m 4,
tho roof Of tho tallest building. The