The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-28
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The Electrified Home
n. w. Watts

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why not an electrified home to do
all the work and make the house a
pleasure to live in? There are mil
lions of horse power going to waste
in the rivers of this country. There
are thousands of acres of coal lands
lying idle that could be used to make
electric power. Every home in the
country could be electrified and the
power used would cost less than what
you now pay for light were it owned
by society instead of private interests.
If you had had the price to take you
to the Panama-Pacific Exposition you
would have seen thoroughly modern
home of simple design and inexpen-
siye cost where household tasks had
been banished entirely but for few
simple movements of human hands.
was the mysterious force that per
formed with unseen hands the various
household tasks, such as sweeping,
busting, cooking, etc.
Electric lights hidden from the eye
diffuse and distribute light by reflec-
| ton from tinted walls and ceilings.
An electric fireplace diffuses ruddy
glow and a cheerful heat The rooms
are kept constantly stirred and re-
freshed by an electric fan. An cleo
trio piano entertains with the latest
selections.
The dining room is equipped with
electric heating devices for the pre-
paration of light lunches. There is a
radiant toaster, an electric coffee pot,
tea samovar, disc stove for gen.
eral cooking, an electric grill and a
warming closet where food is kept
hot between courses.
| In the kitchen is an electric range,
equipped with hot plates, broiler and
oven, ready but for the pressing of
button, to cook for the largest family,
without fuel, ashes or SCOT. No fires
to be built, no wood to split, no tramp
| ing in of dirt from the woodshed and
no overheated rooms. A constant sup
| ply of hot water is always on hand
and when the dinner is over the dishes
are placed in an electric dish-washer
that cleans and dries them. The I'M
pleasant odors of cooking are elimi-
mated by an ozonator and exhaust fan
that quickly removes the odors and
keeps the room pure and fresh.
A portable electric heater can be
put into service in any room by in
sorting small wall plug. An cleo
trically-lighted and cooled refrigera-
tor makes ice. A vacuum cleaner does
the sweeping and busting An cleo
trio clothes washer and drier does
away with the trials of wash day.
The bedroom contains many cleo
trical conveniences and articles for
the toilet, including an electric mas
sage vibrator, electric curling iron and
hair dryer. A heating pad to take
the place of hot water bottle and
an electric water heater for the sick
room. The room can be heated in
winter and cooled in summer.
The bathroom and nursery contain
many electrical devices. A sewing
room with electric appliances for sew
ing, mending and dress making. An
electric laundry completes the outfit
All the above is waiting for the
housewife. All she and her husband
have to do is to take hand with the
Socialists to usher in system of So
ciety wherein production will be car
ried on for use instead of for profit;
wherein collective ownership of the
machinery of wealth production will
take the place of private ownership.