The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-22

be bought every day. She says IL
| you buy fruits and vegetables, and
even meat, carefully, planning your
meals several days in advance, you
can keep things in the icebox most
successfully. She says she makes
up many stews, and soups, and
boiled dishes, that will taste good
warmed over: and she's learned all
kinds Of little quick dishes that
ran be connected out of small in.
dividual cans of stuff-very rea-
sonable-She-''
Belle! Win you stop raving and
tell me how she gets her work
done!
And Now for the Secret.
Eyes. She's got an electric com.
bination stove and fireless cooker.
1t has two places--they call 'em
hot-plates-on top you can cook on;
and underneath a regular fireless
cooker affair. You fix UP several
kinds Of things and put in it and
go away and when you come home
they are all cooked, perfectly, hot
and ready to eat. She showed US
how, and she has all kinds of cards
with recipes just for the fireless
dishes. She can even bake In It.
We had dinner out Of It last night;
she had planned Ii all the night
before. and it was lovely veal stew
with the most spiffy gravy, rich
with potatoes, and carrots, and
onions, and q little parsley; and we
had steamed fruit pudding, with
hard sauce; she made the sauce
after we got home; butter and pull.
verified sugar, that makes 1t with
very little beating; and we had
pineapple salad, slice OF canned
pineapple on lettuce, with a ball OF
cream cheese in the middle, and oh,
the dressing French with scraped
onion and q little bit Of whipped
cream blended In. She made that
the night before.
Then she has an electric toaster,
and an electric percolator. This little
fireless cooker combination told
you about only takes ND q little
space in her kitchenette. This was
once q closet, but 1t has a slkylight,
90 she can cook In It; and she
bought q regular kitchen cabinet,
with drawers and compartments for
all kinds of food. She has wires
and connection In It, too, and q
wonderful electrical chopper-beater-
thing. Then she had the wash
basin taken out and the Quickest
sink put in. And listen, Belle, you'll
have a ht--but she has the dearest
little arrangement that. sets right
on the drainboard OF that sink, and
it's an electric dishwasher! She
never puts her hands in dishwater
at all; whenever she uses a pot or
a pan, she scrubs it out right away
under the faucet with a long.
handled brush she keeps just for
this, and can do 1t without even
wetting her hands. The dishwasher
does the regular dishes and glass
and silver. Oh, she has all kinds OF
brushes and mop things and dust
I ers on handles, so as to keep her
hands nice; and she has q woman
/ come in once a week at so cents an
hour to wipe up the floors and do
her ironing"
ironing" questions Belle. ''Who
washes 'em?"
''She does: in the bathroom. Has
one of those baby electric washing
machines; why she even washes
her sheets and tablecovers. She
says she can do all her washing
any evening in less than an hour
She dries them on a couple Of
high rack things she had put in
the bathroom; one in each corner
They fold up out Of the way; even
when the clothes are on them,
they are not any bother.
Just Why Work Is Light.
Nov listen; this Is the secret
Of her easy housekeeping, she says.
In the first place electricity doesn't
make any smoke, or SCOT, to get
her things dirty. She never has
doesn't have any fumes, she
grease or cooking over the curtains
and walls and furniture. So that
makes easy cleaning. She has
lovely polished floors, and she
cares for these with mops which
she has the cleanup woman keep
in good condition by washing once
in a while; or she does it herself
in the electric washing machine.
Why, she even washes her small
rugsw
Does she get up in the morning
and get breakfast" Belle asked,
skeptically.
Eyes, she does: she has cooked
cereal every morning, with cream.
But she cooks It in the fireless: just
a tiny pot which she puts to cook
at night. Then the electric perco.
lator is also prepared at night; and
all Marianne has to do in the
morning is, to make the electric
| connection and get the bread out
for toast and butter and cream
from the icebox. She usually has
| lam or marmalade instead of fresh
fruit. When she's through, popl
Into the dishwater go the soiled
things; and she doesn't leave a
bit of muss in sight. She has kept
accurate account, and 1t takes less
time to get breakfast at home than
it does to go into restaurant and
wait for It,"
"Well!' said Belle. "It sounds at.
tractive. but isn't it dreadfully ex-
pensive?"
That's what I thought" Anne
replied. "But she showed us her
accounts" solemnly. II give you
my sacred word, 1t costs her less to
live, rent and everything, than I
pay every month for my room and
the slush / eat around these tea
rooms and cafes! Besides the com
fort she, has. and the good diges-
| ton!
"As for being Observation-Disclosures
the bunk. She does everything sys.
tematically: a certain time for all
the jobs: and she has time for three
evenings of study Il week besides
| plenty of fun and entertainment
concerts and SO ont