Eureka Reporter | 1904-09-09 | Page 5 | In an Emergency

in an emergency one bright woman whose gasoline stove broke down at breakfast pre pared a palatable dinner in the fur nace by roasting potatoes and onions for an hour on the ledge just inside the door turning them several times ind broiling the steak over the coals chere was no odor through the house t om either onions of steak one who fas tried it writes that beans baked in the base burner are delicious the covered crock being set in the pit chere the ash pan Is but the palm surely will be given to the woman on a ranch in california whose gasoline stove broke down and she prepared a dinner of stewed chicken with rice end dumplings over a small one burn er oil heating stove it took sit hours for the dinner to cook but there was nothing eatable within twelve miles and ho neighbor nearer to borrow from