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Show THE HOUSEHOLD HORSE Summary: Our conception of a horsepower is based on the livery stable animal we hired for the afternoon after-noon drive rifPcult to picture horse performing daily household tasks Yet the power of a team may be had at fraction of cost of four legged friend. True, the automobile has done much to relegate buggy riding to the dark ages, but with the exception of the very young most of us remember hiring a horse and wagon for a dol- iar or two an hour at some local livery liv-ery stable and deporting ourselves down Main street and out into the country. To many is was the first introduction to horse-power, not that the bease pulling the buggy was capable ca-pable of delivering a full horse-power, but unconsciously we associate the strength of that horse with the power measure. To our un-trained minds, this represented a considerable consider-able amount of power, for the use of which we did not hesitate to pay several sev-eral dollars during an afternoon or evening. The advent of the automobile, with its motor capacity of developing power pow-er far in excess of that of all the horses which even the most skillful skill-ful of drivers could possibly handle, somewhat, shattered our Ideals of the value of horsepower. We still retain considerable respect for a horse's strength, however, and would have some difficulty to picture a horse engaged en-gaged in sweeping down a house and performing other of the many ordinary ordi-nary household tasks cleaning the dishes, washing clothes, grinding the coffee, mixing bread dough, shaking drinks, making ice cream, operating the sewing machine, massaging my lady's face, and other duties which kept the maid and mistress busy all the day and evening in those good old days. Nevertheless, something comparable compara-ble to this has come about in the domestic do-mestic use of the electric equivalent of the old buggy horse. In fact, the electrical power equivalent utilized in the average home, well furnished with electrical labor savers, if these appliances should be put in use at one time, is equal to the strength developed de-veloped by a team of such horses with that of a colt to help out. Even more surprising is the fact that the expense of utilizing these 2 1-4 horse-power, or so, for domestic service amounts, as a rule, to less than 20 cents an hour. Compared to this, our childhood dependence upon up-on the horse was indeed costly. , |