December, 1918 
39 
For the health of the youngest member of the 
family and the comfort of his nurse see that 
one of the adoring relatives presents him with 
an electric milk warmer for Christmas. This 
is a clever little container with a cover that 
can be used for heating water when not serv¬ 
ing his majesty. The attached black handle 
allows one to carry it about in comfort when 
hot. It is equipped with the approved Hygeia, 
eight-ounce nursing bottle and can be had in 
copper, nickel plated or silver plated with cord 
and plug attachment for the lamp socket. It 
will be found invaluable when taking baby 
to Grandmother’s for the Christmas holidays. 
For the nursery it might be wise to purchase 
a heating pad and it might also be whispered 
that it will be borrowed, when not in use in 
the nursery, by the larger members of the 
family. 
Nothing will take the place of a heating pad 
in the sick room and at $6 it has sent the 
A Colonial percola¬ 
tor in nickel or cop¬ 
per, jour cup ca¬ 
pacity, $13.75. For 
six cups, in copper 
or nickel, $13.75; in 
silver plate, $17.25 
leaky rubber hot water bottle scurrying to parts 
where electricity is unknown. 
To please his lordship see that an immer¬ 
sion heater is at hand for his shaving water. 
At $5.50 it will make a most acceptable Christ¬ 
mas gift, for it must be admitted that it is 
difficult to purchase something for “him” that 
he will use and not pass on to some one else. 
Possibly the most widely known and most 
universally used electrical article on the market 
is the electric flat iron. It is the pride of 
every household and the constant joy of travel¬ 
ers. It will quickly iron the heaviest, damp¬ 
est linen or by removing the plug will press 
the daintiest lingerie; purchased from a repu¬ 
table firm, it will last countless days. A six- 
pound iron can be purchased for $6.35 and 
will pay for itself many times over in the sav¬ 
ing on laundry bills. 
There is a very clever tourist iron, with a 
hole in the end for the electric curling iron, 
accompanied by a black velvet bag for travel¬ 
ing. And while on the subject of curling irons 
there is also a most clever device for drying 
the hair. It is in the shape of an aluminum 
comb and can be attached to the same ebony 
handle that comes with the curler. This com¬ 
bination is $6.35. 
With this array of silver electric devices the 
new housekeeper need not shake her head and 
begin to worry about keeping it clean. It is 
no longer a day’s work with whiting and am¬ 
monia, brushes and cloths and elbow grease. 
The clever little housekeeper of to-day collects 
all the silver in the house, piles it in a large 
pan—any pan that is large enough will do— 
for she first places in the bottom of it a metal¬ 
lic plate. Over all she pours boiling water 
and then, clever little witch, she adds soda and 
salt and laughingly watches the genie do her 
work. Her greatest labor is to take the articles 
from the boiling water and dry them on a clean 
towel! 
There is another device for cleaning silver jj 
that requires even less work. This double 
rectangular pan with a perforated inset and a 
soldered grid, which acts as a cathode electro- I'l 
negative pole, cleans the silver by electrolysis. 
This arrangement is quite as magic as the 
other in results, for all one has to do is to add 
boiling water to have the genie serve. 
So it would seem that electricity is as sub- j 
dued as we now have the Hun and it is this 
war with the Hun that has taught us many | 
things, not the least of which is the more uni- 
versal use of electricity in the home and the j 
boudoir. 
A simple percolator 
in copper or nickel, 
5 cup capacity, 
$11.60; and for the 
same capacity in 
silver plated the 
price is $13.75 
A FOOTNOTE ON SLEEPING PORCHES 
Color Schemes and Furniture That Make the Porch 
S O many readers of House & Garden have 
wanted to know how to decorate and fur¬ 
nish the sleeping porch as an all day room 
that we are squeezing in this footnote con¬ 
cerning such work. 
Both the sleeping porches shown here are 
off bedrooms, which is the proper arrangement, 
since the bedroom can be used for dressing. 
The windows are of the ordinary sash variety, 
a Twenty-jour Hour Room 
so that there is nothing unusual about the 
mechanical arrangements. The secret of their 
livableness lies in the decorations and fur¬ 
niture. 
In one porch the rug is of orange fiber 
squares, and the furniture wicker painted delf 
blue. White Holland shades at the window 
have hand-painted decorations in blue. On 
the bed is a spread of yellow linen trimmed 
with a narrow band of blue. The walls are 
white enamel. 
The other room has a black fiber rug, wil¬ 
low day bed and arm chair in natural color 
with black border, and a day spread of black 
and white linen piped with red. The decora¬ 
tions on the shades carry out the colors in the 
furniture and spread. Agnes Foster Wright , 
was decorator of both porches. 
The furniture is delf blue. At the windows white Holland shades with 
blue painted designs. Bedspread, yellow piped with blue. Agnes 
Foster Wright, decorator 
Another room has a black fiber rug, a willow day bed with black 
trimmings, a bedspread of black and white linen piped with red. Agnes 
Foster Wright, decorator 
