Show German Stove Is S Strange Aff Affair ir irBy By United Press An American housewife would be puzzled Indeed if she were put Ina in ina ina a German kitchen and asked to cook ook on one of the latest German stoves says the National Geographic ic c Society Where is the stove would be her first question S She would be shown a big case that hat looks like a cross between a chiffonier and an ice chest Where is the fuel would be the next question A bin at the bottom of ot the he chest would r reveal veal to to the American housewife This is lignite char the material trade coal Is made from It is a sort of coal charcoal individual pieces of which are seldom larger than grains of corn Above the fuel bin are two long narrow draw draw- ers The German housewife used to toa a chest stove will open the top drawer a sugar scoop of on a corrugated grate and light the fire Tho The ash falls into the lower drawer Now she is ready to cook cool Suddenly a broad door above the drawers is dropped and it becomes a shelf in back of which Is the cooking surface of the stove Above the stove are two ovens and at one side sido is a water heater And all this is contained in a solid oblong case insulated to conserve heat If H such German methods were imported imported imported im im- im- im ported into the United States it might mean that King iCing Coal would have to defend his mighty seat The Tho immediate would come out of the West Vest and the South The he presence of a poor relation of the he coal society called lignite or brown coal in South Dakota North Dakota Dako Dako- ta and Montana and in Texas Mississippi Arkansas and Alabama I has long been known mown Not until re recently recently recently re- re however has the tho margin in America between the cost of mining and shipping anthracite and bItuminous bituminous rious and the cost of preparing lIgnite lignite hg- hg nite rifle to meet the anthracite and bituminous standards been sufficIent sufficient to interest business in the de- de of the tho latter |