The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-03
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Mary a woman il working like .
horse" around large home supplies.
with electricity for lighting purposes
without the knowledge that she could
hire an electrical horse to do IT for
about Is cents q day of ten hours. But
only a fraction OF horse power is
necessary for housshold tasks. one
sixth horsepower electric motor. equal
to about zone MA power" is amply
large enough. This motor can be used
for . wide variety o. work at q cost
OF little over cent an hour. No
woman can afford 10 beat carpets and
rugs. sweep. dust. turn the washing
machine and Eringer or pedal the
sewing machine for one cent an hour
Electricity is particularly suitable TO
the operation OF the mechanical helps
which hare constantly tended TO make
housekeeping an easy occupation The
electric motor. a safe, simple. com
pact, powerful bit OF mechanism, has
proved the cleanest, most economical
and reliable servant that has ever
found employment In the household.
By way Of illustrating this point a
little further it may be said that it is
motor occupying the space OF an eight
inch cube the power of one horse.
Much less power than that, OF course.
is required to drive any Of the differ
emit machines which are used In the
home. A sixth or an eighth OF that
energy Is SUFFICIENT. The woman who
works like q horse" as the phrase
has it. in washing and cleaning in the
OLD way. win welcome the little motor
as clean, quick. and handy substi-
tute for her own muscular horse
power"
Some OF the fsForste uses OF the
electric motor in the home are for
washing and wringing clothes. freez-
ing Ice cream, running the sewing
machine, operating vacuum cleaners,
choppfng food, sharpening knives,
grinding coffee, polishing siiverware.
beating eggs, whipping cream and the
like. 1t is little motor. by the way.
that vhiris the blades OF an electric
fan to cool and refresh U.s. On wash
day the electric motor Is AZ its best,
perhaps. as Iabor-sayer. Whether
the mistress or the home Goes the
woshing herself or hires someone else
to do II, the household Is more or less
upset while Il Is In progress. By the
electric way. however. the clothes are
put to soak in soapy water over night
In the morning they are thrown into
the electric washer, some soap added,
and the motor started By the turn OF
q switch After ten or fifteen min
ute's work, without attention the
motor is stopped By another turn OF
the switch. and the clothes are trans
fsTed by passing thssr through the
wrinzer fdrtven By the same motor
into the rinsfag water IL the washer
be emptied, rehlIed vith fresh EAter.
the clothes replaced IN IT and the
motor again set running for hre min-
utes longer, this rsnssnz nesd not be
done By hand. A final xringtnz by
the poEer-wrfser and the clothes are
ready to hang On the lines. The motor,
it wifi be Eeen, has done all the hard
work.
There Is no cleaning so thorough as
VACUUM, cleaning. Every woman who
has this dirt consumer viii testify
TO that. II gathers all the dust from
floors. walls, pictures and hangtngs,
and obviates the tust-cioth and broom.
There IL no need of busting after
using z vacuum cleaner. Unlike the
broom. the vacuum cleaner aeiZas and
fmprisons the dust IN receptacle
from which II cannot escape until Ii
Is ready TO be cast into the furnace
Or the ashpit. With the dust go also
germs. Sweeping with a broom is
largely a process Of transferring dirt
from one spot to another. Cleaning
with vacuum apparatus means the
elimination OF the dust from the house.
Cleaning floors and walls is not the
only task that vacuum cleaner viii
perform. II will take the Gust from
mattresses, uphoistering. and cloth
ing. At Least one woman has found It
useful in cleaning her pet dog and its
use In grooming horses Is common.
Sewing on a machine which has to
be run by treading adds very try
ing physical labor to the strain on
the eyes. An electric motor relieves
the seamstress Of this wearisome part
of the work and gives her chance
TO take more comfortable position
at the machine With this opportunity
to give her whole attention to feed
ing" she can sew at least twice as
fast as when she must also do the
treading The pressure OF the foot Is
ali that is needed TO start or stop the
motor.
Without ever having taken the
/ trouble to inquire, many women be-
/ lfeve that the cost of current neces-
sary to the operation Of these different
/ appliances puts this electric assist
snce" beyond their means. Two cents
will pay for an hours use OF either
an electric washer or an electric
! vacuum cleaner. A cents worth of
current will made twenty thousand
stitches on a motor-driven sewing ma.
/ chine