The Use of Electricity in the House 
ELECTRIC RANGE 
the heat and annoyance of a coal hre. Next we 
come to the cook’s domain, the kitchen, and are 
bewildered by the number and variety of things 
electrical which await inspection. The electric 
range has a capacious oven in which the monster 
turkey can be roasted to a turn, or the lightest bread 
and flakiest pastry baked. By turning a switch 
three different degrees of heat may be obtained, 
according to bow quickly or how slowly food is to be 
cooked. On the table-like top of the range are 
several discs, each with its individual 
switch for the three degrees of heat, 
whereon are placed the cooking uten¬ 
sils with their contents; besides there 
is a gridiron, a broiler, a cereal cooker 
and water-boiler. An electric plate- 
warmer keeps viands warm in their 
transit on the dumb-waiter from 
kitchen to dining-room above. A lit¬ 
tle motor can be attached to either 
the metal-polisher and knife-sharp¬ 
ener, the coffee-grinder or meat-chop¬ 
per, as required. The cook who 
reigns over an electric kitchen beats 
all the eggs she uses by electricity 
and the electric dish-washer relieves 
her of the most monotonous of her 
duties. If the house should be a very 
large establishment, she is provided 
with an electric potato-peeler as well. 
Indeed, an electric kitchen is a para¬ 
dise for cooks, especially when on hot 
summer days the place is kept cool by 
a whirring electric fan. With some 
through a modern electric house and 
see for himself the extent to which 
electricity has become the house¬ 
keeper’s ally. 
Upon entering the basement we 
discover that the heating of the whole 
house is regulated by an automatic 
electric device which maintains the 
proper temperature in each room; 
ashes from the furnace are brought 
up from the sub-cellar to the street 
level by means of an elevator oper¬ 
ated by an electric motor. As we 
pass along the basement hall a slight 
chill in the air is perceptible in the 
vicinity of the electric ice machine 
which is capable of refrigeration equal 
to 200 pounds of ice in every twenty- 
four hours, so that an “ ice famine ” has 
no terrors for the dwellers in the elec¬ 
tric house. 
Just beyond the electric ref rigerator 
is the ideal laundry of the up-to-date 
housewife, fitted up with the newest 
electrical contrivances for facilitating the work 
incident to “wash-day.” Here is the clothes- 
washer attached to a motor; while this is quietly 
and thoroughly doing its part the big wash-boiler with 
its electric heating coil stands ready to receive the 
clothes as they drop from the electric wringer, and 
the electric clothes-drier does away with anxious 
watching of the weather on a cloudy day. Electric 
flat-irons of various weights and sizes will quickly 
complete the laundering of the family wash without 
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