Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23

Jelly bags, securing of knives. Ar electric
motor, on a porcelain stand no bigger than
an ordinary card table, turned the crank
of a patent bread kneeder and cake mixer,
ran a fruit press and an ice cream freezer,
churnrd butter, beat eggs, whipped cream.
chopped meat, ground coffee, secured
knives, polished silver and even peeled
potatoes.
with the aid of these appliances a cool
and smiling young woman in fresh pink
muslin turned out to admiring spectators
bread, cake, pies and biscuits as crisp and
crusty as any from the best coal oven that
eV er baked. roast meats that were all
crackly provinces outside and juicy tender
ness inside, steaks and chops broiled Just
right over their entire surface, stacks Of
golden griddle cakes, piles of brittle toast,
pots of steaming coffee, ~doughnuts. "rab-
bits" Newburghs. ever ything the heart-or
at least the palate-of man could desire.
The stove was a shining object, all
%japanned iron, nickel plate and porcelain,
It's top was just a slab Of metal having
porcelain sockets-like those for the means
descent light bulbs in electroliers-to which
the various cooking appliances were at
'tached or detache at will. To broil a
steak you merely connected your broiler-
a grooved metal slab on four little legs to
FIT into the stove sockets--and turned on
the amount of heat required. To bake
Rriddle cakes you connected your griddle-a
smooth metal slab on ~iegs-and went ahead
without bothering with grease. To make
coffee you filled and connected your per-
~colator. And upon electric burners of uni
versal u~tility4round metal slabs on legs
you could do any sort of, cooking in any
sort of vessel.
Below was the oven, a common or garden.
variety of-aver except tina its heat was
uniform all ~over-which housewives know
is not common to ordinary ovcns-and
under a control that may ha5 e been dream
ed Of in the past. but certainly never OBJ
tained.
While the young woman in pink demon
strated the possibilities Of electric cooking
another young woman, equally cool. fresh,
smiling and unruffled, did a family wash.
That is to say, electricity, directed by the
young woman, did It. A motor connected
with an electric light socket turned a
hiahly modern washing machine, wringer
and mangle. A current OF electrically
heated air dried the clothes in an inclosed
space no bigger than an ordinary bath
room. And electricity conveyed by wire
NNNA III iibilN EONhFl oNNt TIT nun
ing board heated the flatlron. for there was
but one, kept always at exactly the right
'heat.
There was no reek Of steaming suds, no
slop Of boiling water. no dangling about Of
damp clothes inside or bothering with lines
outside. no changing. testing. waxing or
cleaning of irons. In a cool. clean and
orderly kitchen. a cool neat and happy
woman was turning cut a maximum Of
work with a minimum OF trouble and exer-
tion.
But all this must represent for most
Women the kitchen Of the future. Even
In the Kitchens OF the rich. complete cleo
trio equipments are extremely rare, for
electricity is still too expensive for general
household purposes. All the appliances for
using It are here and ready. however. and
II ever the time comes when II can be fur
nished as cheap as gas or coal these two
win probably be displaced in the home,
In the meantime women whose homes
are lighted with electricity can have some
OF these conveniences. for many OF them
can By operated through the agency Of a
singl@ electric light wire.