Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-08
MARVEL HOUSE OF JERSEY
Electrical Devices of All Kinds in
s s Suburban Home.
MUCH LABoR-sAvING EQUIPMENT
Everything Goes mt the Touch of the
Button ResardIess of Expense
The Wonder of Honey
sucLlei Avenue.

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! in West Orange, N. j., MARVEL house
completely equipped with all the latest
electrical devices now practicable even
In the most remote districts,
| The Wizard /, Edison. who harnessed
electricity for city dwelers, has at last
made electrical homes possible for agri-
culturists and suburbanites.
After seven years. during whicn time
The conducted $1,000 experiments and ex-
fpended over 5000 900. Thomas "a. Edison
has perfected type OF isolated lighting
plant with the aid of his storage batteries
(which win transform any home into q
Emodern electrical house.
The marvel house on Honeysuckle ave.
nue., Llewellyn park. West Orange, is the
I first suburban house to- be completely
! equipped with all the electrical devices.
A small four-hoYsepower gasoline engine
which has to be run only few hours
every third day drives dynamo which
charges the storage batteries. The bat
teries furnish electricity that Is available
at all hours for lighting. heating cooking
and cleaning, as well as for all the other
electrical appliances In the house. There
are no switchboards no complicated de-
vices of any kiee The old-fashioned lead
suphuic acid batteries with their Of
fensive fumes are replaced by batteries
that require no attention except a little
water from time to time No knowledge
4 of electricity Is needed to operate the
| plant which means that the day of the
4 dimly lighted farmhouse with it's III
smelling oil lamps will soon be thing Of
the past.
Drudgery Banished.
Besides being brilliantly illuminated
from cellar to garret by It's storage bat
teries, the marvel house has eliminated
/ drudgery to the last degree. The kitchen
| Ia equipped with an electric range. cleo
trio dish washers. clothes washers. grills
and flatirons There is an electric ice
box which manufactures its own ice. In
the dining room there is an electric coffes
percolator an electric toaster. chafina
/ dish, egg boiler, and. Of COURSE electric
bells In the drawing room is new
edison phonograph. which has eliminated
all metallic tones and the scratching Of
| needles by the substitution or q diamonu
point and unbeatable disc records made
| of condensite In the front hall there 10
en- electrical clock which winds itself
! automatically. sfs
Upstairs In the billiard ROOM which Ia
built over the porte cochere, there y q
| home kinesoscope, one Of Edison's most
recent inventions, AS It's name implies.
It Is small moving picture machine.
and With II motion views are easily OBJ
/ tainahle In any home. Its quarter inch
1 films project pictures four by five Feet.
which are thrown on screen suspended
on the opposite wall. seventy-five feet
OF this miniature film Is equivalent, TO
| 1000 feet OF the regular size. The little
j films will be handled in the same way
as the regulation size, which means that
tfe swner OF home kaleidoscope will
have hundreds OF thousands Of films af
his disposal. if
Little Left for Hands TO Do.a
/ The bedrooms of this marvel arep Of
course, equipped With the most modern
appliances. In addition to reading lamps
at the bedside, there are electric heat
ing pads for warming the bed, electric
foot warmers, devices for heating curl
ing irons by electricity electric fans for
keeping cool In hot weather. In the
bathrooms there are electric heaters for
warming the towels. for heating shaving
water and for electric massage. There is
i aisoSa device for sterilzing tooth brushes.
In the den or library on the second floor
there is an Edison business phonograph
, into which lettere can be dictated. The
rooms are all connected by telephone
and thermostats control the temperature.
n the temperature rises above certain
degree in any room the heat is auto
matically shut off. Electric vacuum
cleaners put an end to sweeping and DUST
ing.
The storage batteries supply the cur
rent for all these devices. No longer ara
they the, monopoly of the city dweller
who buys current from a central plant.
These isolated lighting plants manufac-
ture current as cheaply as Il can be
bought even In the most accessible Ioca-
tions. A small gasoline engine the nurr-
Der OF horse power depending ON the size
Of the house. with tho aid Of dynamo
and these wonderful storage batteries. ID
all that is necessary for an electrical
house in, the most sparsely settled coun-
try districts. Not only can farmer or
suburbanite reduce household drudgery
to minimum. but with moving pic-
lures and phonograph records to, enter
tain him and brilliantly lighted homes
he has no occasion to miss the bright
lights Of the city.-New York World