The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-04-13

most unknown substance and what
was to be had was both scarce and
very high in price.
The crude facilities exerted a pro-
found influence on the manner of liv-
ing in those days. The Puritan faith
ers had to confine their bathing to
the warm months, for a bathroom was
not the home necessity it has become
today. Clothing was washed i,
streams in summer and in the winter
months the family linen was cleaned
after a fashion in cauldrons beneath
which a fire was built and the dirst
removed with lye soap. Much of this
heavy work was done by the women
folk. while to the men fell the respon-
sibility for filling the family larder
and rallving forces against a sudden
Indian attack.
There are hundreds of farm homes
today far more livable than were the
village houses of the P~uritans. Among
the enlightened farmers who realize
the comfort and convenience of the
modern electrified home with it's ease
of living, and with the elimination of
petty and disagreeable household
tasks, the appreciation of the change
is most marked.
What Electricity Has Done.
Perhaps nj single agency has done
as much to promote comfort and con-
venience in the modern home as has
electricity. Its advantages are fully
rs evident in the country as in the
city. 1t provides an inexhaustible
store of energy which may be turned
into heat, light or power at a mo-
ment's notice. 1t is safe, it works
without odor and without noise. It's
energy may be simultaneously split up
into small units by electric lights,
fractional horsepower motors, or
electric 1atirons or it may be con-
centrated on the operation of a single
large motor of several horsepower
for operating a threshing machine or
for cutting ensilage.
The electric range is a wonder work
er in the modern home. 1t bakes.
cooks OF broils without o%verheating
the kitchen and without deriving the
air Of the vital elements. 1t banishes
dust ard ashes from the kitchen and
saves the family pocketbook many
dollars otherwise spent for food, be-
cause meat cooked on the electric
range loses less in bulk than when it
is cooked in any other way.
In the bathroom electricity may be
applied to the city water system to
provide hot water for a bath on the
mere turning of a spigot handle. The
bathroom may be heated by an cleo
trio radiator and in the country where
city water pressure is not available,
the useful current may be used to
pump water for a high pressure houst
system.
The electric fireplace takes the
place of the smoky stone walled fire.
place built in the chimney by the Puri-
tans. Unlike the hearth of
former days the electric ap-
pliance may be installed at a mo-
ment's notice in any room where an
electric lamp socket is available. 1t
sheds a warm, comforting glow, and
there is no wood to bring in and no
ashes to carry out.
The electric washing machine takes
care of the family laundry, while the
housewife sews on the electric sewing
machine. In n type of washing ma
chine as 500 as the clothes are thor
oughly cleansed the pushing of a lev
err raises the clothes out of the suds
and they are then whirled rapidly by
the electric motor until practically
dry. They may then be ironed in an
electric mangle.
The iceless refrigerator has passed
through the period of exploitation and
development and is now a convenience
of substantial construction and merit
which promises to dispense with the
human ice man. It maintains a tenn
perature much lower than the melt
ing point of ice and may also be used
to freeze small cubes of ice for the
table. The current consumed costs
less than the same amount expended
for ice. 1t virtually supplies every
home with a miniature cold storage
compartment.