Arizona republican., 1910-01-23
TAKING THE HOUSEWIFE OUT OF
 THE KITCHEN

rose, in the January Van Norden's
 This began n new era for the house.
 wife. So long as her labor was
 supposed to have no economic value
 there appeared no reason why sht
 should not rub the clothes clean on
 a corrugated board. ring them out
 by hand and go over every inch of
 sheet and pillow case with flatiron
 But once it became evident that the
 time 1t took her to do these things ought to be counted up ia money and that added to the cost Of her primitive equipment. washing mach ines. wringers and mangles began to
 make their appearance and the light ening of the hOusewifes burden has been going on steadily ever since.
 Not long ago. at a show of cleo trical devices in New York, l stood before an exhibit labeled. the mod ern kitchen" Not the kitchen of the future" mind you. but 'the mod ern kitchen" In this spotless in closure there was not coal and no coal bod. no wood and no wood box.
 no kerosene and no matches-no gas even. All these devices for making fire were as obsolete as the flint and steel and tinder box. A turn of a switch produced the heat required. regulated it with laboratory exact ness. and turned it off when it was no longer wanted.
 No hot, flushed. tired and dishev- eled housewife herei The tempera- ture. even immediately over the stove, was no higher than in any other part of the building No scrubbing of black kettle bottoms! the cooking utensils came away from the stove as clean and bright as they went on it. No toilsome kneading of bread, beating of batters. chopping of meats. squeezing of jelly bags. securing of knives, An electric motor on DOT celain stand no bigger than an or dinary card table. turned the crank of a patent bread kneader and cake mixer. ran a fruit press and an ice cream freezer. churned butter, beat eggs. whipped creap. chopped meat. ground coffee. secured knives. polish ed silver and even peeled potatoes.
 With the aid of these appliances cool and smiling young woman in hCd ohe eo He- miring spectators bread, cake. pies and biscuits as crisp and crusty as any from the best coal oven that ever baked. roast meats that were all crackly brownness outside and juicy tenderness inside, steaks and chops broiled just right over their entire surface, stacks of golden griddie cakes, piles of brittle toast, pots of steaming coffee, doughnuts, rabbits" Newburghs; everything the heart-or at least the palate-of man could de- sire
 The stove was a shining object. all japanned iron. nickel plate and DOT celain Its top was just a slab of metal having porcelain sockets like those from the incandescent light bulbs in electroliers-to which the various cooking appliances were at tached or detached at will. To broil a steak you merely connected your broiler-a grooved metal slab on four little legs to fit into the stove sock turned on the amount Of heat required. To bake griddle cakes you connected your griddle- A smooth metal slab on legs-and went ahead without bothering with grease. To make coffee you filled and connected your percolator. And upon electric burners of universal utility-round metal slabs on legs-you could do any sort of cooking in any sort of yes sell
 Below was the oven, a common or garden variety of oven except that nn -xx-n f.ah housewives know is not common to ordinary ovens-and under a control that may have been dreamed Of in the past, but certainly never ob- iained.
 While the young woman in pink demonstrated the possibilities of cleo iric cooking, another young woman, equally cool, fresh, smiling and un- ruffled. did family wash. That is to say electricity, directed by the young woman did it. A motor con nected with an electric light socket. turned highly modern washing ma chine, wringer and mangle. A cur rent of electricity heated air dried the clothes in an inclosed space no big ger than an ordinary bathroom. And electrlclty conveyed Dy WlTt iToili dh electric light socket over the ironing board heated the flatiron. 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 in side or bothering with lines outside, no changing, testing, waxing or clean ing of irons. In a cool, clean, order ly kitchen, a cool, neat and happy woman was turning out maximum of work with a minimum of trouble and exertion.
 But all of this must represent to most women the kitchen of the future Even in the kitchen of the rich, complete electric equipments are extremely rare. For electricity is stir too expensive for general house. hold purposes. All of the appliances for using it are here and ready. how ever, and if even the time comes when it can be furnished as cheap as gas or coal, these two will probably be displaced in the home In the
 In the meantime women whose homes are lighted with electricity