The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-13

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and what perfect home maker she
is. The old bolshevistic. anarchistic
Mondays, when the wash was only
well under way at noon, has been for.
gotten by the head of the house, and
all is well this 1920.
And then the ironing on Tuesday
or any other day in the week. Press
| ing ones neckties on Sunday morn
/! ings doesn't even seem sacriligious
with an electric iron, and this piece
Of invention has lightened the house
wives labors many times over. There's
no need these days for Keokuk women
| to go in hard for track, because all
those steps they used to take from the
| ironing board to the coal stove, which
was red hot and full of coal or wood,
are done away with. She sits or
stands at her board with the iron at.
tached to a socket over head, or in
the wall and does her work like a lady.
instead of scullery maid.
An lroner, Too.
/ When it comes to the big pieces like
table and bed linen she puts EN- In
her electric ironer and they are ironed
prOntO.
And Mary who used to do her hair
up on uncomfortable cid fashioned
curriers', well, she never knew the
blessings of that electrical marcel
waver which she used to dream about,
but her little sister Jane has grown
up and she knows all about them and
uses one, too.
The evolution of the old fashioned
house modernized by electricity, is a
thrilling moving picture with each
thousand feet Of film getting more
exciting than what's gone before. Its
scenes are laid all over the house from
electric fans in the living room to
electric sewing machines in the sew
ing room; from James electric marcel
waver in the budiour to the electric
vacuum cleaner in the pantry, which
is brought out every day or SO for
short run over the domicil and put
back again.
BUT the grand finale hasn't been
written yet. AS long as the way to
a mans heart lies enroute through his
stomach, some of them are going to
keep on inventing clever electrical de-
vices for cooking implements, with
which any woman can test her cult
nary ability.
Hired Girls and Maids.
Hired girls" ten or fifteen years
ago were hard to get, but maids"
today are twenty times harder, but 1t
doesn't matter quite so much now with
Miss Electricity presiding over the
kitchen 1t used to be that women's
clubs and aid societies met early in
the afternoon so the members could
get home in time to get their suppers,
but nowadays, they go to their meet
ings late and stay until 5:45 if they
want to; bid their hostesses prolonged
goodbyes, wend their way slowly down
the street towards home, chat at the
corner with their friends, arrive at
their residence, sit down and read the
evening paper and then proceed to
the kitchen where dinner is cooked in
the electric stove, already to be taken
I'D and served And among all the
things electric, there's nothing any
nicer than the electric stoves, which
which rings it's bell at the time set
by the mistress of the house. and |
opens the proper little lever which |
Turn on Iue elSCtTlCltS anu away IL |
goes. The food to be cooked has |
been placed in the stove before hand |!
and it begins to get it, when the juice |
is turned on.
Electric grills and standard table |
stoves and all of the other cunning !
little electrical devices sure do make !
life worth living for the women in
the homes. They can really live =,
here now and not be principals in an
endurance race to see which one of
hem can manage to do the most hard !.
work in single day. The facial !,
massage and manicure which mother ;,
gets downtown every week these days
sr't the only reason why she's look
ing younger than she did ten years :,
ago. It's the things she has learned
% do in an easy comfortable way by
he help of electrical inventions which
Keeps her young and happy.
It's a wonder the women didn't
propose Thomas A. Edison's name for
president at the G.. o. P. convention
leld last June. They might do it
mother time.