The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-03-29
Edna Parks

one of the most important ana use
ful discoveries .hat the world real
ICES today is the use OF electricity.
Let US try to imagine a home fully
equipped with all the available usei
J Of electricity.
On an early Monday morning, w
will lock into the laundry Of this
home; there is the house wife JUS
finishing putting her clothes into thC
electric washing machine. Tho water
Is heated in the machine and In,
clothes are also boiled in the ma
/ chino. After wringlng the first tur
/ trll she pulls small lever anC
/ SWINGS tho wrinccr into u convent
cnt position without lifting a heavy
, tub fun OF clothes.
BY nine O'Clock the washing is nj
/ finished ready 10 place on the line
but TO our disappointment there is sc
much dust blowing that it IS scom
ingly impossible to place the clothes
on the line ont doors. but the house.
wife does not mind shn only puts
her clothes on the line in the wash
room and turns on the large electric
fan which soon dries the clothes
without whipping all the starch out
Of them.
The housewife now reads until time
to prepare lunch. 1t is now eleven
o'clock and we win take a look into
the kitchen. The mistress is not
worrying over the smoky gas range
nut is preparing her meal on M cleo.
trlc range which does not smoke up
the cooking utensils and does not
make such an intense heat. Tho cor.
fee for lunch is very clear ana can
be heated at the table because II Is
IN an electric parcolator.
Lunch is over ana the dishes nave
been washed. scaldcd, ana dried i'm an
electric washer, Tho dish washer is
% large tub containing racks in which
the dishes ere placed. The water re.
wolves around them ana washes them.
BY pushing a small button the water
is Grained off ana scaldmg water
comes in then the second water is
taken off and the dishes are dried
by heat.
The house work now being done.
the housewife prepares to make d
few calls. She washes her hair and
dries it with m electric hair dricr
which is metal comb attached to
the curling iron. She now curls her
hair on an electric curling iron, and
after finishing her toilet she starts
Jut to make her calls.
Tuesday morning the clothes are
ironed with an electric iron, and the
fiat work, even the best pieces Of
linen, are done on an electric man.
gle. The mangic is two large rollers
which work on the same principle as
the wringer, and is run by electricity.
Tuesday afternoon she spends an
hour or so sewing. but does not get
tired because she is sewing with an
electric motor. The motor is small
and is attached to the wheel.
Wednesday morning, rising carly,
she cooks wafflcs on an electric waf-
llc iron. Wednesday afternoon she
entortains a small group with bridge
ana serves wclch raroht cooked in
an electric chatting dish.
Thursday tho housewife, who is oX-
pccting company, cleans this eight.
room house in an hour and n half
and Ill the work is done by cleo
t"icty. The walls are cleaned and
even under the heavy furniture it is
cleaned without even moving any fur.
niturc, the cleaning is done with
vacuum cleaner which cleans all kind
Of CARPETS, walls and draperies.
Many Other COnvcnences
There are many other conyeniences
IN this home which we will not take /