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ards of efficiency. And such efficiency pays in dollars 

 as well as in happiness. 



Every bit of time and strength saved from unneces- 

 sary labor especially non-creative labor such as that 

 involved in cleaning, carrying water, washing, and 

 similar work frees an equivalent amount of time 

 and strength for productive and creative work. Some 

 of Mrs. Borsodi's friends wonder how she, even with 

 the assistance of servants, gets the time to do the 

 quantities of cooking, baking, preserving, sewing, and 

 even weaving which go on in her home. By using 

 labor-saving appliances and machines to eliminate as 

 much non-productive work as possible, time is saved 

 which can be used to produce these things. An invest- 

 ment in an efficient water-heating system, for in- 

 stance, which eliminates the non-productive work of 

 carrying water back and forth, pays for itself over 

 and over again by what it enables the family to save in 

 making things which it would otherwise have to buy. 

 It is for this reason that the teakettle method of pro- 

 ducing hot water seems to us as obsolete as the Dutch 

 oven. It doesn't pay. It not only is unequal to the re- 

 quirements for hot water in bathing; it makes a sup- 

 plementary method of heating absolutely essential 

 for laundering. And we have found doing our own 

 laundry at home is one of the easiest ways in which to 

 pay for an efficient system of hot-water heating. 



We started to get away from the tyranny of the 

 teakettle with a small coal heater in the cellar. Water 

 was piped from it to a storage tank, and from the 



