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Show ADVANTAGES OF GAS SERVICE IN THE HOME With a gas stove there Is 110 carrying of coal no dirty smoke or soot and the price is much cheaper. Not only is gas for the stove but for healing. The gas fire place is very beautiful and only needs to be turned on, it also gives the required re-quired heat. The small gas heaters are for the bath room, they heat the room up in a few minutes after being lighted. Iiy using the gas for lighting you get a good clear light. The Marvel, the gas water heater and tank combined is used for heating heat-ing water when you want it very quick, this does not cost much, saves you building up a large fire and waiting for hours for rf to get hot. Gas takes a very important part in every modern home now. And soon every home will have them. Because without gas what could be done? In the Estate gas stove oven the baking is always done by pure fresh air going through the oven. By KATHLEEN EVES. Provo Junior High School. Every American home should have gas of some kind in it. The most important ones are, gas stoves, gas for heating, gas for lightiug. , Gas stoves are very much more convenient con-venient than the old time cook stove, which you can not control the heat, the Estate gas stove has a regulator which regulates the heat to either slow, fast or medium. If you want to go out and yet have a nice dinner you get it ready thpenuttl you get it ready then put in your oveu and turn your regulator to a certain degree and when you get home your dinner will be cooked. Also with a gas stove you don't get hot or tired standing over it because be-cause it does not let heat out and make the room hot. The house wife will find the Estate very handy when it is the fruit season. Putting up fruit is a task to most women but to women with an Estate stove it is not task at all. was fixed for the children, it being their favorite desert. Many other goodies and tempting foods were prepared. Then just before noon, Helen hurried home to finish fixing fix-ing dinner. When John and the children arrived, ar-rived, everything was ready, and mother did not look so tired and hot as she usually did. John even explained how pretty she was. The house was all so cool and refreshing. refresh-ing. The dinner was a wonderful success. The children were delighted delight-ed by the pudding, and the bread had such a beautiful golden tint on the crust. And it was baked to a turn. After dinner was over they all made comment on how they had enjoyed en-joyed it, Helen told them of what she had done, and of the wonders and pleasures of cooking with a gas stove. She had definite figures to show how gns would make it possible for her to ''spend more time doing little lit-tle things she liked to do. For instance, in-stance, many a time she would liked to have gone to a movie or lecture, but couldn't because she must stay home and finish baking the bread, or something else. Helen Hart sat thinking over the trials of her life. It was perfectly true that she had become nothing but a drudge for her family. There wasn't one that thought of the work mother had to do. They seemed to think it was her duty to spend nil of hor time at home, working, After oil, May Beck hud been right when she had said that. "Keeping up with olden days was merely a long route to suicide." As Helen pondered this thought she become convinced that here lay one of the big reasons why she had been made a drudge. Always she had believed that children loved the Mother find who would stand by the old cook stove and cook delicious cooUie.-i and other tempting goodies. : Even .Tohn, the adored sweetheart ! of childhood, and now her husband, seemed to hang to the old fashioned ideas of a home. lie could not be convinced of the necessity of g;is in the home. It wjis just ns ensy to buy coal as pay I for gas. Of course, it took longer to heat a home with coal, and longer perhaps, to cook a meal. But Jhen his mother and father had used coal and got along quite comfortably and he was satisfied. Helen was more than usually tired today, everything seemed to have gone wrong. And then she had noticed in the advertisement sheet, a picture of a beautiful little home all complete with gas fixtures, from the gas stove to the lighting system. All at once she thought of a plan, "Yes, she would do it. True she had never worked against John's will but this time she was going to try it." Getting up she went to her room and slipped on a fresh little bungalow bunga-low apron, and her hat. Then she hurried down the street toward May's. "When she arrived she found May busy at work in her flower garden. 'Hello, Helen." "Oh, May, I have just conceived an idea. You know how I have always slaved for my family, supplying sup-plying their every want?" AVell, and without waiting for May's answer she continued, "I want to know if I can do some baking in your gas stove? I am going to prove to .John and the three children that I can bake just as well, and a whole lot better with the gas stove." May was delighted over the plan and said she would like to help. IlL'len and May spent practically all of the morning cooking. First they prepared applie pie. John was so fond of it. Then chocolate pudding Then she told how convenient the lighting and house heating was. It was much easier and quicker to heat the home with gas. It was no trouble at all to heat the water, because all you had to do was to turn on the gas and in a few minutes min-utes the task was accomplished, all without any. kind of smoke or soot blacking the walls and ceiling. She showed how everything about it was clean and convenient. Their home was all modern with the exception of the gas. Why couldn't they have it put in too? The children were more than willing will-ing to accept the plan if it afforded afford-ed all tile luxuries mother described. John was rather uncertain. His mind slill pleaded for the days of long ago, lint when he turned and looked at his wife so pretty and expectant, he smiled, his fears all vanished and his heart missed a beat. Going over to Helen he drew her to him saying, "well, if gas in the home-can, make my little sweetheart always so beautiful and charming as she is now, and make her house-work so much easier, I think we had better have it installed right away." Then turning to his son he said. "Junior, call up the Utah'-Valley (Jas and Cuke company and tell them to send out their men to the home of Mr. John Hart, and install ' in our home all the conveniences of gas." "My biggest wish," he went ; on, turning to Helen, "is to make ; happy, the most wonderful wife and ' mother in all the world." ' Helen's worries were over. X0 ' more trials of being a tired house- ' I wiXe, |