Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-17
0VeNFOR THE BABY
Unique Device Recently Shown
Can Also be Used as a Set
tee or Ice Box.
HAS SEVERAL ADVANTAGES
Domestic Science Department at Teach
ers' College Receives Device
for City Flats.

Since the exhibition of fireless ovens
at Teachers college in New York
year ago the domestic science depart
ment has been progressing until Miss
Helen Kline, the head of the depart
ment, believes that she has obtained
the acme of ali cooking apparatuses.
The new style oven may be used for
settee for the library, an icebox or a
crib for the baby, besides having many
other advantages.
When 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 white
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 minute and then
led the way to an inner room, Would
you believe it, she remarked, that
dough that l scraped off my fingers
just now was about equal TO an egg
or five olives or four tomatoes or one
cabbage or eight prunes or potato
or banana or quarter of a glass OF
cream--that is, l mean so far as the
heat giving properties are concerned?
But you came to ask about the oven.
Oh. yes, here It isl
She perched herself on dark STAIN
ed window seat about four feet long.
Two sofa cushions rested on it.
Wont you be seated on our Oven:"
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. 1T is especially designed for
city flats. 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. Iii the morning the cook
| ing may he done in il. In the after
| noon and evening it may be made up
as q crib for the baby. In the summer
time it is the simplest thing imagina-
bic to turn it into box in which You
can keep nice cool drinks or even
freeze ice cream.
How does it work? 1t goes on the
principle that there are certain ma te-
rials which will not conduct heat.
When you are using this box TO cook.
you simply heat in water whatever
you are cooking, place it in the box,
| surround it 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 will cook in this in
| about three hours" she said. "Negeta-
| bles take somewhat less time. Not a
bit of heat gets out in the room on the
| may be done in the library while you
are sitting on the oven reading book.
| No Odors Can Escape.
| "But it has another advantage. Sup
pose you are living in an apartment
and don't want the woman next door
to tell all the neighbors that you have
cabbage three times a week. The fire.
l less ONeil Is Tue SOlullOu- -NOJ an QUOT
| can escape. Our Investigations have
also proved that a large part of the
nourishment in the cabbage escapes in
the steam when it is boiled on a gas
stove. Use the fireless oven and your
husband gets more nourishment than
he would otherwise and cabbage as
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
ed. 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 morning
cooking, and baby is tired and wants
to take his nap she continued. rig
the oven like this. These mats make
the most comfortable bed in the world