Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-31
oven TO KEEP BABY IN
Can Be Used Also as a Settss
or Icebox.
HAS SEVERAL ADVANTAGES.

Domestic Science Department ar q
Teachers College Evolves Apparatus
That Will Fit City FIats---When
Cooking You Simply Lock Heat In.
Since the exhibition OF fireless ovens
at Teachers college in New York q
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 all cooking apparatuses
The new style oyen may be used for
settee for the library, an icebox or
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 girl
| clad in bingham dress and long whita
! 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 of my hands. You
see. this lis 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 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, mean so far as the
heat giving properties are concerned?
But you came to ask about the oven.
Oh. yes, here it lsr'
She perched herself on dark stain
ed window seat about four feet long.
Two sofa cushions rested on it.
won't you be seated on our ovenT
she asked demurely. The reporter gin
gerly sat down.
I'VE think here that we have one of
the greatest inventions Of the age
she said ut is especially designed for
city Oats, where many Of our gradu-
ates go after they leave here, It can be
used for 50 many things. 1t can be
kept In the library just as well as In
the kitchen. In the morning the cook
Ing may be done tn It. In the after
noon and evening It may be made up
as crib for the baby. In the summer
time It Is the simplest thing imagina-
BILE to turn 1t into box In which you
can keep nice cool drinks or even
freeze Ice cream.
How does 1t work. 1t goes on the
principle that there are certain mate.
rials which will not conduct heat.
When you are using this box to cook,
you simply heat In water whatever
you are cooking. place 1t In the box
surround It with, nonconductive mats
and there you are. The heat can't &c
away. so It has to cook the meat Oh
vegetables. Just let me lift the Id"
The lid was lifted and revealed In
side box apparently filed with smaI9
mattresses
"A pot roast VIII cook In this IN
about three hours" she said. "vegeta.
bies take somewhat less time Not a
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 q book.
"But It has another advantage. Sup
pose you are living In an apartment
and don't want the woman next door
10 tell all the netghbors that you have
cabbage three times a week. The fire
less oven Is the solution. Not an odor
can escape. Our investigations have
also proved that large part Of the
nourishment in the cabbage escapes In
the steam when It Is boiled on a gas
stove. Use the hreless oven and your
husband gets more nourishment than
he would otherwise and cabbage as
often as he wants It without the neigh
bors remQrking about It But now
watch meA
She made few deft mantpulations,
and the interior Of the box was chang.
ed. The sides rose UP on either side
protectingiy, while In the center looked
to be bed soft enough for any child.
Nov you have done your mornina
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. |
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 1t in the bedroom, use IT for an
oven and window seat In the daytime
and for crib at night if you want to.
You can Ak It so as to put the baby to
bed in II while you are cooking If YOU
want TO. This perhaps is not advisa.
bic In summer, as very small amount
of heat is likely to get through the
mat. but In winter # won't hurt him.
Now the summer has come. and
mother and the children are away. to
the seashore. Father wants to enter.
tain few friends in the apartment
some night or he wants something
cooling himself sometimes. You see. /
know all about these things because / +
know my father, and l also know my
brothers. Simplest thing Imaginable
II heat can't get out, neither can 1t get
In RFiDp hyOur boffla mn gotF Gra,.,