THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
859 
Unseen Fingers at Housework 
At the Panama Pacific Exposition 
there is one exhibit called an electrified 
house. The purpose of this exhibit is to 
show, if possible, how electricity can be 
made to act as cook, maid, laundress, 
hired man, and half a dozen other ser¬ 
vants. Therefore every appliance known 
to household use has been put into this 
house. Unseen hands moved by the mys¬ 
terious electric force do all the various 
household tasks. These unseen hands lit¬ 
erally work the wires which separate the 
milk, make butter, sweep, dust, cook, 
wash, iron, pump water, run the sewing 
machine, and heat and light the house. 
This electric house - is a marvel of in¬ 
genuity and convenience. Of course very 
few country people can ever hope to have 
such a house fitted up in this complete 
manner, and yet most housekeepers will 
be interested in knowing about this one. 
We show a picture of the kitchen in this 
electrified house. The kitchen is the 
workshop of every home, and in it elec- 
tite for more rum. I have never seen his 
advertisement in your paper. Would 
you let me see what you think of him? 
I have treated a friend for three years 
with the Edward .T. Wood’s B. B. treat¬ 
ment for drink habit, and it has done 
the friend no good as he almost lost his 
life when off on one of his sprees. When 
he returns from them I have always tried 
to have the B. B. treatment in the house 
so if I think he wants to drink and is 
going where he can get it I commence 
the treatment. And now I have come to 
this conclusion: It gives him a craving 
appetite and I find he has almost always 
come home intoxicated and at last spends 
from one to two weeks in bed. I treated 
him for two weeks and now he is off the 
Lord only knows where. So let me give 
those who wish to treat any dear one 
this warning, not to treat with this 
treatment, but try to get them into some 
good place that will treat and cure. 
b. L. M. 
What I know about Edward .T. Woods 
is what anyone may know if he will take 
the trouble to write “The Journal of the 
American Medical Association,” 535 
Dearborn St.. Chicago, III., enclosing 
five cents and asking for their pamphlet 
on Wood’s cure for drunkenness. The 
American Medical Association is doing 
Kitchen of the Electrified House at San Francisco 
tricity finds its greatest field of useful¬ 
ness. Here we have an electric range. 
There are hot plates, a broiler and an 
oven. Push a button with your finger 
and any one or all of these hot plates 
glow with heat. Another switch and the 
broiler is ready, or the oven is quickly 
heated to any desired temperature for 
your pies or bread. No quarrel over the 
wood box here, or combat between the 
children as to who shall bring the coal 
up from the coal bin. The hired man 
does not growl when he is expected to 
carry out the ashes. There are no ashes, 
there is no soot and no fuel in sight. 
What is better, even while the stove is 
glowing with heat, the kitchen is cool, 
as little if any heat is sent out into the 
room. There is always hot water from 
an electric water heater. The dish wash¬ 
er, driven by electricity cleans and dries 
the dishes when the meal is over. There 
need be no unpleasant odor from cabbage, 
turnips, or any other of the smell pro¬ 
ducing foods, as a little device on the 
range with a fan takes all these odors 
away. Then there is a refrigerator light¬ 
ed and cooled by electricity; and the ice 
cream freezer is driven by electric pow¬ 
er. Not only the kitchen, but the bed¬ 
room. the dining-room, the laundry, every 
room in (lie house is wired so that these 
unseen fingers reach in and do the work; 
in fact the marvels of electricity are per¬ 
haps more finely illustrated in its appli¬ 
cation to household work than in any 
other line of industry. It is true, as we 
have stated, that few farm homes can 
hope to have all the blessings which may 
be carried into it by these strong unseen 
fingers, and yet throughout all our hill 
country thousands of brooks and rivers 
are running down the hills lazily wasting 
their power, when if they could be har¬ 
nessed and put at work, they could send 
these strong fingers into many a farm 
home where they would work ceaselessly 
and willingly through every hour of the 
year to relieve the women folks and 
bring marvelous comforts and conven¬ 
iences into the home. 
Cures for the Liquor Habit. 
What do you know about Edward J. 
Woods? He claims to cure drunkenness. 
I have tried his treatment for some time, 
and at last come to the conclusion that 
instead of its curing it causes an appe¬ 
most valuable work in analyzing the most 
prominent of the fake “cures” and pub¬ 
lishing their findings, both in their jour¬ 
nal and in pamphlet form, for the in¬ 
formation of the public. 
It seems that Woods also operates un¬ 
der the name, Dr. Mary E. Webb. Bos¬ 
ton, Mass., and that besides his drink 
cure, he has one for the tobacco habit, 
one for baldness, and a preparation for 
taking the kink out of a colored person’s 
hair. The analysis of his drink cure re¬ 
veals its composition, but the composi¬ 
tion is immaterial. Like all fake cures, 
it contains absolutely nothing that could 
by any possibility cure the disorder for 
which it is sold; neither is it expected 
to; it isn’t advertised and sold for the 
purpose of curing anyone, not even of 
his credulity. It is sold because fat¬ 
tening upon the misfortunes of others has 
been a safe and lucrative business; lucra¬ 
tive, not only to the “curer,” but also to 
their allies, the publishers of their ad¬ 
vertisements. It isn’t worth while to 
discuss this particular “cure” at length ; 
it is only one of the class to which con¬ 
sumption cures, cancer cures, anti-fat 
remedies, kidney cures, nerve restorers, 
etc., etc., belong. They are all alike; 
if you see a cure for any disorder adver¬ 
tised in public print, no matter how 
high, or how low, the supposed moral 
standing of the journal in which the ad¬ 
vertisement appears, you may be abso¬ 
lutely sure that the “cure” is fraudulent. 
Not only has medical quackery been 
very profitable, financially, it has also 
been very safe, though now the public 
conscience is gradually awakening to the 
enormity and extent of the crimes com¬ 
mitted by medical quacks and laws are 
being passed and enforced that will ul¬ 
timately strangle the curse. Medical 
quackery is safe because its dupes are 
practically always financially unable to 
prosecute those who have swindled them, 
and, in many cases, as in those of drunk¬ 
enness, the victims have as little desire 
as they have financial ability to publish 
abroad their misfortunes. Human cre¬ 
dulity will probably never cease to exist 
but the divine conscience in man will 
some day blot out the iniquities which 
those without human feeling now perpe¬ 
trate against the poor, the weak, and the 
suffering. m. b. d. 
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