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Fifth Avenue and Seventeenth Street, New York 
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House & Garde 
The Electrically Equipped Home 
(Continued from page 80) 
namely, the mirror light, the shaving 
stand light, the piano light, and lights 
near the head of each bed. 
In choosing a pair of glasses to facili¬ 
tate a better use of the eyes, you would 
not dream of having the lenses painted, 
because what you really use the glasses 
for is to see through them. In this 
way you buy lighting fixtures to in¬ 
crease the possibilities of seeing, not 
to add merely to the decoration of a 
room. The function of a lighting fix¬ 
ture is to light; decoration is but 
secondary. Fortunately, however, the 
two can be practically always com¬ 
bined to advantage. There is a semi- 
indirect lighting fixture on the market 
which gives just the right kind of 
scientific illumination and at the same 
time allows a wide latitude of choice 
in the selection of shades with which 
to decorate the light source. 
The lighting fixture is furnished as 
a central feature and also in the form 
of a portable floor lamp and table 
lamp. The convenience of these port¬ 
able lighting fixtures is almost limit¬ 
less and there is also an economy 
involved. 
One of the newest things in electric 
illumination is a ceiling or wall out¬ 
let so constructed that the fixture 
hooks on instead of being permanently 
attached to the wiring, so that it is 
possible to change brackets and fix¬ 
tures about to different places in the 
room. And you can have additional 
fixtures by taking them out of unused 
rooms. When extra outlets are not in 
use they can be covered in various 
decorative ways. 
The wiring of a house cannot be 
considered an expensive outlay or 
investment if you think of it in rela¬ 
tion to good plumbing and heating. 
Of course it is essential to have an 
honest contractor and the best work¬ 
men. From this combination you will 
get service and safety as well as quali¬ 
ty and these are things in the home 
that always must be well paid for. 
It has been computed that to wire a 
house costs less than five per cent of 
the building expense as a whole. A 
little house we know of in the country 
was wired for $135, which included 
all but the dining room fixtures; and 
there were eight rooms altogether. 
In the wiring of the house the meter 
as well as the fuse box should be, 
low enough to be easy to get at—out 
of the way but not out of the reach. 
On a cellar stairway landing in a 
weatherproof box it is often most con¬ 
venient. 
It is an axiom that every home 
should have convenient electrical de¬ 
vices but these should be selected 
carefully to be of especial use in the 
particular house where they are to be 
used, not merely because it is the 
fashion to have a large electric equip¬ 
ment. A friend of ours has a house 
completely wired and equipped elec¬ 
trically which costs about fifty cents 
a day for the upkeep. Some of these 
essential devices are a clothes washer, 
ironer, range, dish washer, electric 
cleaner and attachments, sewing 
machine, electric refrigerator, percolator, 
iron, toaster, and water heater, and 
these can be installed for eleven hun¬ 
dred dollars or less, which would 
include the wiring, about the cost of 
an ordinary automobile. 
And these are just the beginning of 
electrical comfort in the home. A list 
which we are adding here for the vari¬ 
ous rooms in the house will give you 
some idea of the fundamental quality 
of electricity in planning the modern 
home. For the greater convenience of 
those who are interested in electric 
luxuries we will divide this service 
into six heads, taking it for granted 
that a number of the devices suggested 
for a certain room may also be avail¬ 
able for other locations and in some 
instances several of the conveniences 
would be duplicated in one home. 
Living room : Electric cleaner, fq n 
phonograph motor, Christmas tree out¬ 
fit, piano and victrola motors, port¬ 
able heater, fireplace, lamps, tea table, 
clocks, house telephones, bell ringing 
transformer and bells. 
Dining room : Electric cleaner, pan 
cakes and waffles, chafing dish, egg 
boiler, drink mixer, fan, wired buffet, 
wired dining table. 
Bedroom : Hair dryer, vibrator, curl¬ 
ing iron, violet ray outfit, fan, boudoir 
lamp, heating pad, wired dressing table, 
milk warmer. 
Kitchen : Electric iron, dish washer, 
range, fireless cooker, plate warmer, 
exhaust fan, utility motor for meat 
chopper, coffee mill, grinding, polishing 
and buffing machine, all cooking, re¬ 
frigerating of foods, making ice and 
freezing ices, mixing breads and cakes, 
kneading bread, whipping cream, slic¬ 
ing vegetables, beating eggs, making 
butter and mayonnaise, drying vege¬ 
tables, heating water, sterilizing jars. 
Laundry : Washing machine, ironer, 
and iron, clothes dryer. 
General : Sewing machine, thermo¬ 
stat control of furnace, toys, hand- 
drill. floor scrapers. 
A new dish washer has come in that 
deserves special mention because it is 
so very simple. It has an electric 
pump, one-quarter horse power motor, 
which forces water through a revolv¬ 
ing perforated tube,—thirty quarts 
a minute with eight pounds pressure; 
there is a lever pull which evacuates 
the used water and lets in a deluge 
of clean water. Another practical 
dishwasher, the oldest one on the 
market may be either installed or left 
so that it can be moved about. It is 
operated in the simplest fashion and 
is a most efficient house-hoid servant. 
Among some of the electric con¬ 
veniences not already mentioned is 
ventilation in your kitchen by ,a system 
of fans so placed that the kitchen is 
kept cool and free from odors. An¬ 
other excellent idea is a pilot light 
above the basement door to remind 
you that possibly the basement and 
cellar lights have not been turned off. 
There is also an endless fabric con¬ 
veyor which carries clothes to a 
wringer and this wringer has its own 
motor which stops if anything catches, 
and stalling the motor does not cause 
it to burn out. 
One of the new electric irons has a 
handle that fits the hand, another has 
a back rest attached which obviates 
necessity of a separate plate when not 
in use, a third has a sharp point which 
has obvious advantages, also an edge 
that gets evenly heated and a cool 
handle so shaped that the hand cannot 
get over-heated. The most extraordi¬ 
nary iron of all has a reliable heat con¬ 
trol and a thermostat device to keep it 
at the desired temperature. 
The new electric percolators are a 
boon to the busy housewife. And the 
pottery ones are very pretty. There is 
one of glazed pottery in a variety of 
colors and excellent designs. This per¬ 
colator is of a very modern type with 
a safety device which prevents the burn¬ 
ing out of the heating equipment. 
Since writing a former article on the 
laundry, two small ironing machines 
have come into existence. These can 
be used in apartments and small houses 
as they take up very little room. 
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