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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-09
lis euualizes the monthly hills.

bis equalizes the monthly bills.
Several years ago scientists noted
hat electricity was the only form of
nergy which could be instantly
changed into heat with practically no
loss. This led to the development of
the electric cooking devices which are
so common today. As electricity is
the one form Of power which can DE
carried to any old place with little
loss and applied in motors small
enough for a watch charm or capable
of 6 900 horse power. so it is the most
flexible form of heat. 1t can be in
stantly made to warm plate, or the
same pressure of a finger will let
loose energy enough to boil quart of
diamonds or to melt block of solid
concrete
Electricity is the only thing I can
recall that costs less today than it
did any year In its history, owing to
! astonishing improvements in electric
! apparatus One dollar will buy ten
times the amount of electric light, of
a vastly better quality than it would
purchase twenty years ago. Power
rates have been dropped each year as
j the cost OF producing electricity has
diminished. and wherever electric
| cooking IS advocated a special rate at
about ona-third the price asked for
electric light is obtainable.
! ! II the modern electric kitchen
where the heat is applied direct to the
devices and utensils instead of through
the medium of a wasteful stove. the
current used will approximate 300
watts a meal a person. This, trans
lated into power rates for current,
means 81 to $1.50 month a person.
Even this cost can be considerably
reduced by the judicious use of the
fireless cooker.
One family of four where coal was
used for a long time averaged s7.45 a
month to cook the food. When gas
was installed this cost dropped, to
S5.12 a month, and when gasolene
stoves were used the average cost per
month dropped as low as SIS ia month
Now electricity is used exclusively at
an average cost Of about $40 a
month. the average cost a person a
meal being 1.43 cents. In other words
for four persons it would take about
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-09

A piece of red hot carbon large
enough to give the same amount of
light as the South American glow
worm would burn the insect to a Gin
der in an instant, but this worm is
capable of lighting up its own mis-
placed headlight for an indefinite
length of time without an uncomfort-
able amount of heat. Man has not
yet read this simple riddle Of the in
sect world! Some day we may enjoy
light with very little heat, but until
then we must go on following the ex-
cellent example of the sun, which is a
great mass of white hot material,
throwing off waves into the surround
ing ether, which gives US light and
heat. All light from open flames
comes from heated particles in the
flame. 1t is the white hot mantle
which throws off light in the gas
lamps, and it is the little wire Mi
ment in the incandescent electric
lamp, heated by the mysterious cur
rent, which gives it light.
There are as many different cOiOrs
of light as there are shades of negroes
in the South. The sun, high in the
heavens. gives almost a pure white
light which is the goal toward which
inventors are striving. The light
from the north at noon has blush
tinge. Only the very best arc and IN
candescent lamps produce light any
where near akin to actual sunlight.
The light from a kerosene flame is Or
ange in color, the mantle burner gives
a greenish white light, the candle pro-
duces an orange yellow light, old car
bon incandescent lambs produce ret =
dish yellow light, the mercury arc
tube gives a greenish light, and so on
down through the long lists.
When considering the lighting of
the home care should be taken to
avoid all lights which have a reddish
or violet cast, as they are most injur-
ious to the eyes. The fixtures should
be so placed as to reap the full bene.
fit of every lam. Don't spoil good
lamp by covering it with a light kill
ing shade. Many of those ornamental
shades are nothing more or less than
light sponges which absorb most of
the light rays. In burning gas re-
member to change the mantles often,
as the candle power of these lamps
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-09

drops fast wnen the mantles begin to
get old. Buy light colored furniture
and see that the ceilings are nearly
white and that the walls are papered
with some simple paper of very
light color. Many Of those dark
flashed, sombre furnished rooms are
mere gloomy caverDs, dismal and de-
pressing.
Light is fully as essential to man as
air and just as much care should be
taken to get good light, free from all
communicating influences, as to get
the purest mountain air.
Where there is no light there is no
color. Nearly every one will dispute
this fact and argue that red is red in
the dark just as in the sunshine. A
trip to ar Illuminating laboratory will
quickly dspel this popular illusion.
Red is red because it has the quality
of absorbing all the rays of the spec
trum but the red ones-these are re-
Il 9cted back to our eyes and we say the
thing is red. Put this same piece of
cloth under the mercury vapor arc
lamp which contains no red rays and
it Will be black as midnight. Intense
black under yellow light looks to
be yeiiOWish olive, under a green light
it is greenish yellow and under an or
ange light it is deep maroon. A
deep blue under an orange light is
gray, slightly orange: under a yellow
light it is green. So all the colors,
shades and tints are directly affected
by the character and color Of the light
in which we see them. For this very
easOn one SHOULD try to procure a
light of the same strength and charac
ter as actual sunlight, with the same
proportion Of cOiors. Eyes, are only
| devices to catch the rapid vibration of
| light. There are light rays which
travel too fast for human eyes to see,
such as the X-,ays and others which
move too slowly for US to recognize
but which enable other animals to see
in what to us is darkness.
THE HOLE IN THE COAL BIN.
Heat, the scientists tell US. is but q
form of energy consisting of rapid
TO and fro vibrations among the mole
cules Of matter. Whether this accept.
ed theory be true or not, the average
hous eholder is re ady to swear that the
heat supply in the modern home is the
result of untold energy represented
by the dollars which Nitrate through
the pocketbook to the coal man.
Fuel for heating the house and cook
ing the food is very costly item in
the course of year. Coal costs about
81 ION In most places and any hints
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-09

Of the kitchsn coal stove. Out of
every hundred shovelfUls OF coal
thrown into such a stove only the ac
tual heat energy OF about six are used
for cooking and baking The heat
from the other ninety and fcu: either
goes whistling up tn chimney or is
radiatad ouC into the room to make
the kitchen insuferably hot A this
rate one has to pay for hundred tons
of coal TO get the he at energy Of six
tons.
The first essential to save coal is a
good chi mney with strong draught
This max IS it possible to bank the
fire through tie greater part of the
day and night The strong draught
will quickly bring up the fire when it
is needed With a poor chimney the
fire has to be run at top speed all the
time, wasting the coal. The coal
stove should also be watched and reg
ulated SO that it ''digests" the fuel,
leaving a clean white ash. Some
stoves do not really burn more than
ix-tenths of the coal. With a good
chimney and q good stove well regu-
| lated there is 20 need to sift the ashes,
FOR nothing that will burn will be left.
Cook stoves are lily about sixty five
L
the cooking was done over a bed of
Goals in the fireplace or in hugh Dutch
ovens. In those gladstone days wood
was plenty AMI the fuel cost was un-
important. In the early days of the
coal stove the cost for fuel was COM
paratively small, but today with our
coal supply limited and price unlim-
tied, the cost for fuel to do our cook
ing is very important.
TIE COST OF HEAT.
It costs just as C:uch to keep a coal
fire for family Of two as it does for
a family Of eight, therefore the coal
fire is very economical in large fami-
lies. One cannot with prepriety rec
ommend large families to lower the
cost of coal meal. so the next best
thing is to advise gas or electric
ranges for small families. because
these sources of heat show greater
economies in small doses.
About thirty years ago gas ranges
were introduced into the kitchen, and
since then they have held their own,
more because of their cleanliness and
hardness than for their real saving
in actual cash.
When you cCme to compare the gas
bills Of a family of thcee or four with
the coal bills of similar family for
period of one year the difference is
slight. Both have their advantages
and disadvantages. With the coal
stove hot water is available at any
time of day at no further cost, but
with gas it has to be heated extra, and
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four horse power Of electricity day
t. do the cooking. At the special
heating rates available in most places
this would cost but eighteen cents.
COST OF COOKING.
The cost OF electric cooking with a
rate Of six cents a kilowatt hour will
not be over that Of a good hard coal
range and il is vastly more conven-
lent than any kind OF coal fire, where
coal has to be carried, ashes removed
and fires hindled. In one family of
two tue entire cooking and baking
was done by electricity at cost Of
So. II a month. Another family Of
three cooked with electric heat at
mon THY cost of S4.32. The electric
f1atirons can be operated for less than
five cents an hour q pot of coffee
costs one cent to brew over the in
visible fires ten slices of bread can be
toasted on the dining room table for
one cent; the chafng dish can be run
for four cents an hour; the tea kettle
will boil an hour for five cents; the
disk stove will keep sizzling hot for
one hour for six cents for three cents
7 the corn pepper will work one hour;
the heating bad will remain warm for
two hours for single copper: seven
cents will broil d large steak: the
baby's milk can be warmed half a
dozen times for a cent, and SO on
down a long list
Electricity can be changed Instantly
into heat by inserting bit of resist
ance" in its path. The current, under
pressure flows easily along a copper
wire. but if you cut this wire and in
sert a bit Of non-conducting wire,
such as platinum, which resists the
flow Of the current, the electricity
will work hard to get by this obstruc-
electrical energy into heat energy. If
you rub coin briskly on the carpet
it will get quite hot, because the
work expended on moving the coin is
changed into neat energy. In nature
nothing is lost; all mechanical energy
ultimately changes into heat energy
and is radiated away in particles too
small to be noticed.
Upon this principle all the electrical
cooking devices are constructed. A
flexible cord leads the current to the
chatting dish, coffee percolator, frying
pan or broiler. Concealed in the bot
tom of these utensils is disk of re-
sistance metal, which gets quite hot
the instant the current is turned on.
There is no waiting for slow fires A
touch Of the button and the dish is
hot, and at the pressure of a finger
the heat is released. How fast it
goes can be estimated when it is re-
membered that electricity travels at
CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE
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Modern Domestic Magic

find some one following you about
turning down or turning off the light,
trying to economic on light and pay
ing no attention to the costly evrors
which make the light bills excessive.
AS a rule light fixtures are stuck
in any old place to suit the whims of
the architects and the economics of
the electrical contractor. Wall papers
and paints selected to please the eye
instead of for their light rejecting
qualities. Without delving into the
horrors of wall paper color and &c
sign, suffice it to say that if care were
taken in this respect many a hard
monthly light bills. Cheap wall paper
of dark and grewsome hue is about
the dearest thing anyone can put into
a room.
Absorption is the great enemy of
light. 1t turks in every shadow and
bit of darkness, ready to eat up the
tender light rays. The best lamp in
the world cannot light up room
where a large percentage OF the light
rays are absorbed by the finishings.
A certain mulattO colored desk in a
dark finished office required four
powerful ihcandescent lamps combin-
ing 1913 candle power to give two-foot
candles, or the required amount OF
light for working purposes on..the desk
top. When the desk was exchanged
for light oak and the walls and cell
ings were finished in a light buff it
took less than sixty-two candle power
20 give the same illumination-a saw
ing of half.
The following table gives some idea
of the rejecting qualities of different
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-09

SOME IDEAS ON HEAT.
Out on the front lawn in the early
evening the tiny freAies futter back
and forth, wigwagging their love sig
nails with the only perfect light in the
wo:ld-a light without heat. When
ever We produce artificial light we
waste more than ninety-fve, per cent
&c or energy in useless heat, for all
illIminants are the result of heating
materials to the white heat of mean
IaSrnncp
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-09
Electricity now available to
Tighten nearly all the
work of the keeper
of the household

The Monitor copies the following
garding the modern methods of house
work where electricity is used. 1t is
interesting reading and If the article
induces anyone to use additional cleo
trio apparatus about the home the
Monitor will only be furthering the
interests of the village as our plant
is owned by ourselves. 1t is a NUM-
cipal plant.
A man there was in a new home
who conducted series of experiments
with various kinds of artificial illumi-
nants. but the results were ever the
same--his monthly light bills were
too high.
Would that some one would invent
a way to bottle sunshine ~ he cried
out in despair.
''lf you had a nice garden and some
animal sneaked in every night and
ate up eighty-fve per cent of your
vegetables would you Kill it," aske
the young engineer, who overheard
the lament.
"You bet your life would" snort
ed the older man, but what's that
got to do with nay regular monthly
tribute?"
at is your own fault that your light
bills are too high. Every night when
you turn on your lights a monster
called Absorption gu shoes into your
house and steals eignty-tive per cent
of your light. The wall paper in this
room is dark greea. the woodwork is
stained a chocolate brown AMI the fur.
niture and fnishings are veiy dark.
They all combine to st al away most
of your light your lam IS give, but in
reality you get only fifteen per cent of
the light you pay for, because you are
being systematically robbed by the
wall paper and woodwork, the chairs
and the rugs.
Soon after this the house Was re-
papered in light buff tints an the
woodwork was painted white AS q
result of this change the electric light
BILLS were cut in halves. 9evsnty-fi five
Der cent OF the candle power Of each
lamp was being utilized, cynse luentiy
it took less than h8lf tn number OF
lamps to light the rooms.
Go into most any hone AL YOU will
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-03-08
PlERSO s


Henry M. sehrader, who has been
spending several months at Morgan.
town and Fairmont, where he is sur.
seylng for the 3. and NJ. railroad tu
be constructed there. is here for a viz.
II with rela.ives-Parktrsburg State
Journal II.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. C. Fletcher were
re1iatered yesterday at the stamn,
hetel. Wheeling.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard james spent
Sunday at cIarksbura with friends.
Miss Iona HaneY Ct Classify. Ram
dulpn county, is the guest of relatives
In this city. 49, &
John Steele. private secretary TO
Senator N. q. scott, is here for a
short visit to his mother, Mrs. Vic
torla N. STEELE, his sister and his
brothers. His :. visit. declares Mr..
Steele, has no political significance.
He merely dropped into Meraantown
for Sunday visit to his relatives
Mcrgantown New Dominion.
Mrs. Ella Augustus has returned
from asvisit of few days in Pitts,
burg.
Mr.. and Mrs. vester Bennett. of
Weston. are the guests Of relatives in
this city.
Mrs. M. r. Sister has returned t.
her home at Mora antewn after a .vis.;
Of week with her sister, Mrs. J. c.
HroonfieId.
Pref. e. r. Parker has returned
from a,vfslt of a few days in Pittsbura.
John Lavender has returned to Chi
eago after visit here with s1is sis-
ter, Mrs. w. H. Conway.
Mrs. H. G. stoetzer is in Morgantown
the guest of her mother, Mrs. John J.
Brown.
Mrs. Charles Powell went to Pitts
burg this morning. She will be Joined
there by Mrs. James Bennett and Nj !ss
Mayme Bennett and the party will
spend several days In Pittshur1.
/ Miss Ethel WestfalI went to Pitts.
turg this morning. Before returning
to this city Miss Westfall will spend
some time in Philadelphia.
Mrs.-T. w. Beydstor is the guest iii
Moraantown of relatives.
Mrs. c., 3. Nay has returned from
visit at cIarksburg with her daugi.'
ter, Miss Lola Nay.
Miss Gfan Bowers, who has been
the guest of Miss Blanche Malone. re.
turned yesterday to her home In Wash
inaton, D.. c.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-03-08
VIII GO Abroad.

A party composed of Fairnont peo-
pie as well as sewers, 7rom out OF town
will make n. tuor abroad this summer.
The party has been gotten up by Miss
Elizabeth Stalnaker,,o of the Faculty of
the Fairmont State Normal School,
WHO has travelled extensively abroad.
The party will sail from New York
about the middle OF June and will land
ut Naples. They will spend three
months abroad, returning here early
in September. Among the number
composing the party are Miss Stalna-
ker. Mrs. Stalnaker. Mrs. N. r. C. Nor.
row and Misses Oldham, Martha Tay-
Tor, Minnie Fleming. Ruth Arnett and
Mary Deveny. OF this city. and Miss
Maynic Bennett. OF Greensburg, Pa.
Several people from Boston Will also
be members OF the party.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-03-08

and becomingly; to speak softly; to
cultivate powers of conversation and
observation; to read books of high
life; to go to the theatre and see plays
of high life and observe how the thing
Is done there: never to be cloud" or
vulgar; never to be conspicuous; to
cultivate any talents You may have.
All this Is good advice. l am sure. and
will help immensely: but would say
to You that beyond all these things
other things are needed. Be kind: for.
get yourself: read good books and
think nobly; strive to express what
ever is good In you; and, finally. bring
all the beauty of every kind into youl
life that you can.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-03-08
B. AND 0. SECURES LOAN
PART OF FINANCING WHICH is TO
AID THE WEST VIRGINIA.
SHIPPERS.

NEW YORK. March Sit is an.
nounced here that the B. and o. rail.
road has placed $18.89e,888 worth of
notes with European investors ut n
rate of interest OF Az per cent. The
notes mature In one year. This. Is a
part Of the financing which the Balti-
more and Ohio company ha. undertake.
en- involving the issuance of upwards
of s25.O0U,000 OF new obligations. The
money to be thus secured is to build
additional secon, and third tracks
along the main line, principally in
West Virginia. where the congestion
during the past several years has teen
very great: Nearly all of the new cap.
ital being raised will be spent for the
purpose OF improving tine coal handling
facilities OF the company. particularly
in West Virginia.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-03-08
Cooley-huuf1.

Mr.. Charles w. Cooley aid Miss
Alma Hugh, both of Fairchance, Pa,
were united In marriage II this city 81,
Saturday afternoon at three o'clock a.
- If
the residence of the officiating minis
stert Rev. il c. Broomfeld, on Walnut
avenue. The bride was former par
8ishioner Of Rev. EroomfeId at Union.
town. Mr.! and Mrs. Cooley remained
lin this city until Sunday when they
sleft for their home at Fairehanet.
S5,;S Miss Blecter Hostess.
'isE NJ sss Rae, Bloeher very pleasantly ems
tertained: the Mcfarland Mission Cir
3 Gle On last evening at her home on
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-03-08

Mrs. r! =. Pickett fcft this morning
fer Norfolk. Va, where she viii spend
=pme time with her daughter. Mrs. NJ.
III. Justu1. Il &.
4: IS Miss Elsie Thomas has returned
from a visit with friends at clarka.
burg. & PSF
n Mrs. Torrance Stewart, Of Morgan
town, spent yesterday .,Ithe city the
guest Of her sisters, Mrs. G. M. Alex
'ander and Mrs. - A. Meredith.
Mr.. w. 3. MeGreaor left yesterday
for a tour Of the State. !.
|. Mrs. Jokey Eddy. who has been 3ill
with the rheumatism for the past few
weeks, is Improving. "a
Mrs. Frank Hentzy: and daughter,
Anna Hentzy, will leave this evening
for outville, O., to visit a near srela.
tive who is III. They will return III
about a week after Wishing Baltimore.
Miss Hentzy is a student Of the Union
Business College and the Normal
School. 7z,s.l -
Mrs. Will PinneIi. of clarksburg, Is
the guest Of relatives In this city,.
K Miss Eunice Lewis, Of the faculty e
the Fourth ward school. has been III
for several days with the grip At the
home Of MIR. and Mrs. Minor Dunhasn
on Fourth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. H. Wilcox have re-.
turned from several weeks trip in
tho South. NJ
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-03-08
HOW A GIRL MAY
BECOME POPULAR
There Are Many Ways, but slnccrit,
is Best of All.

/ -s y
! AM sure there never was healthy
minded girl In he world whto did not
want to be popular.
What will make us popular? asks
Hope Candy in The Dellneator for
March. Well. there are dozens oil
things that would be helpful. know
one girl who aided a great deal to her
popularity by learning to tell fortunes
by pamistry No one seriously believes
In them, nor does she. but 1t Is always
interesting and makes fun and CONVEX
sation. a-tE
Another girl know has sweet
voice. She has never had 1t cultivat7
ed. hut she has learned number OF
lovely and very simply old-fashioned
songs. Scotch. Irish and English. which
she Is willing to sing when asked.
Another has fund OF good stories,
which she iots down and remembers,
and tells at the right moment. Another.
who has very little money. still man.
ages generally to be the most tiaintfiy
dressed girl In any gathering. Another
girl Is All especially good dancer; an.
other has cultivated pleasing and gra:.
c!ous manners.
Most of these accomplishments are
within reach Of every Girl. yet they do
not touch the real root and reason of
popularity. To be lastingly popular
there must be things deeper and better
than these.
There must be. first. OF all. kindness.
and plenty OF it. The popular girl must
be tactful; and taet is nothing In the
world but kindness. The word tact
means touch: II we want people TO
like us. they must know that orr lives
are not alonf: from theirs bit that they
tohch. and touch them kindly.
Others will tell Won to dress neatly
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-03-08
Gfller-kimmel.

y There was n quiet wedding this
afternoon Mt the home of the bride on
Washington street, when Miss Mary
Elizabeth kImmel was united In mar.
rlage to Mr.. William Frederick Giller.
of Baltimore. The ceremony was per-
formed in the presence of only the inl-
mediate relatives of the young people
by Rev. DR.. ]. H. Flanagan. pastor OF
the First Presbyterian Church. mt l 80
o'clock. Following the ceremony the
young people departed ON train No. IL
for Baltimore. their future home,
where the groom Is engaged in busl.
ness. The bride Is well and favorably
known in Grafton and has many
friends. who will extend their hest
wishes for a long and happy married
life. The Sentinel Joins IN hearty con.
Gratnlations.--G Grafton Sentinel.
Guests at Hot Springs.
ia Mr. Sam II. Nuzllnl and Mrs. A ] n