The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-19
Fighting Summer Foes

which was recommended to housewives
rs means of saving fuel and securing
good results IN cooking cereals. chicken,
macaroni or anything requiring long,
slow cooking or steaming.
The various fireless cookers now on
the market are little chests lined with
thick layers of felt, asbestos, cork and
other non conducting materials, They
hold one or two kettles with clamped
lids and in these vessels the food is not
thoroughly cooked upon the stove, but
merely brought from two to twenty min
utes beyond the boiling point, Then
they are packed in the little chest,
where the cooking continues without fire
until the food is "done,' after which
ii remains steaming hot for twelve to
eighteen hours without getting over
done.
You can make your own fireless cook
er by following these directions given
to me by n government food chemist
who has studied the matter: Take a
good, tight packing box and cover it,
lid and all, with oilcloth, which should
be turned in on all four sides. Pack
the bottom about four inches deep with
tightly crumpled newspaper. Cook the
food ten or fifteen minutes in one or
two granite ware kettles with tight lids
and then stand these upon the crumpled
paper in the box. Next pack them all
pressed as tightly as possible. Finally
place discarded cushion or pillow over
the kettle covers and fastcn down the
box lid snugly all around, The food
Will then continue to cook and should
keep stcaming hot from morning till
evening.
Bathtubs for the Farm.
The greatest source OF relief from
summer suffering is OF course. the sani-
tary bath tub, wherein one may sub
merge his febrile body beneath cool
water, but a vast majority of our coun-
try houses III isolated sections have
been denied this comfort, because distant
from town water supply. But the sec
rotary Of agriculture has been ransack
ing the country for inventions whereby
the most isolated farmhouses may be
given the luXuries of the city bathroom.
This work. too. has been in charge of
woman, Elmina T. Wilson. c. E., for"
merly professor of civil engineering in
the Iowa State college. In report to
the secretary she shows how water can
be taken from ordinary wells, springs,
roof-fed clsterns or running streams
and pumped into elevated tanks in the
attic or pneumatic tanks in the cellar
by two or three horsepower gas or hot
air engine, costing as low as $50, or by
hydraulic RAM costing $50 OF less, She
goes into the whole question of plumb
ing from the poor mans standpoint,
shows how TO make homemade shower
baths and gives plans of homes where
all such conveniences have been in
stalled
These hints for the elimination of
summer discomforts have been circu-
lated through congressman. The Roman
and the Moslem ever gloried IN their
baths, which christendom regarded as
luxury until our generation. Today
I find row after row of niue-room city
dwellings, built for the middle classes,
with rs many as three bathtubs, one on
each sleeping floor and one in the base
ment for the servant, that all-important
factor of the household whose unclean.
liness has been most loudly condemned
by those families who. denying her the
family bath, have yet afforded her no
means whatsoever for getting "ne1t
to godliness.
That the poor may cool their skins
and cleanse their bodies on summer