Show a. a L r I What Electricity Can I IDo I Do Do in the Home Home Home- Home i Many Ian whose use electricity for tor power or Illumination puzzle over bills bIBs for tor current consumed and not noi being fa familiar familiar ta- ta with the meaning of or technical terms they give It up In despair and pa pay protest although secretly nursing a feeling that the they are perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps being cheated through their Ig Ignorance Ignorance ignorance Ig- Ig norance of or such terms as watts kilowatts kilowatts kilo kilo- watts and volts What Is a hour of ot electricity electricity elec elec- and what will It do Kilo comes from a Greek word which means one thousand and kilowatt Is 1000 watts of ot electricity But Dut what Is watt The word watt a L comes u james van me Ine inventor tor tor and It means tho the practical workIng workIng work- work In Ing unit of ot electromotive force Corce of ot ono ormo vole when the flow of or the thc Is IB Isone isone one Expressed in figures It equals ls horse power or foot toot pounds per second A kilowatt thus Just 1000 times this power W er A l kilowatt hour means the tho continuance continuance continuance con con- of this force torce for one hour A A kilowatt hour of electricity will perform perform per per- form man many wonders that few tew realize while Its expression In ordinary terms ma may held to Illustrate It better to the tho 11 las lav mind than technical words For or Instance a kilowatt hour of ot I electricity will carry you three miles I in an electric automobile or It will carr carry you OU up thirty times from the bottom of or a f shaft eighty eight feet teet deep It will keep your coffee warm at atthe atthe atthe the breakfast table every overy da day for tor a I. I week or run your our sewing machine for Cor twenty one hours It will keep your breakfast warm for tor five hours or run a small ventilating venti venti- lating fan ran for twenty one hours or 01 ora ora a largo large one for tor six hours It will vili conk conJ fifteen chops in fifteen minutes minute or boll boil nine nino l kettles of or water each holding two pints It will warm all aU the time beds In your our house b by rowans moans of or a warming pOll pail for tor two t weeks or give you OU heat In your bedroom for tor an hour while you ou are dressing or undressing In vcr very cold weather r. r It will win keep your our ordinary Irons hot while In use USA for an hour or keep you OU warm In bed bedfor tor an hour 1 It will give you OU three Tur Turkish bath lights or run an electric piano forten forten for forten ten hours It will lift lItt three and a half halt tons seventy five feet teet In four tour minutes or pump one hundred gallons of ot water to a hel height ht of or twenty five feet It H will vilI run a plate machine machine ma ma- chine tot for one hours or fill till and cork dozen pint bottles It will supply all an the tho air required II by imy an ordinary church organ for tor one onen n average service or run an electric clock for ten years cars It will vill light cl cigars ars or Iron thirty silk Ilk hats It will knead eight sacks of ot flour lour Into dough or run a mechanical sieve for two hours It will warm your shaving water every morning for tOr a month or 01 warm curling tongs every day 1 a In the year for three minutes and twice on Sunda Sun Sun- da day It will vilI to a machine long enough nou h to clip five horses or another to clean seventy five pairs of ot shoes b by machinery It will drive machinery long Ions enough to clean knives or saw feet of ot deal lumber It will keep your feet teet warm for tor five hours In ordinary cold winter weather After one ono has read this list of ot things s that can cnn be accomplished with one kilowatt hour o of electricity It Is 0 his own fault If It he ho do does s not have a pretty practical Idea of what the term means mean when translated ed Into common language Figuring at the usual rate of or 10 cents cent per kilowatt hour It Is not nota a difficult matter to estimate approximately approximately the cost of or various tasks |