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Show EleririP. Stoves Growing Tn Favor ' NOT AS ECONOMICAL TO USE AS GAS ONES, BUT ELEOTRICITZ PENETRATES WHERE GAS DOES NOT GO. IF tho inventor has his way the old saw "man'a work is from sun to sun, but woman'a work is novor dono," will soon havo lost Its point, for overy day sees some now labor-saving dovico for tho kitchen registered at the Patent Office, a device de-vice which will savo many stops. And evon tho Real Estato agent ls beginning begin-ning to havo a heart. Nows comes that In a certain vory up-to-dato neighborhood In an Ohio town overy houso is equipped with an electric stove and with a large variety of olectric appliances. Think of the Joy of thatl Fancy the pleasure, whon the cook fails to arrive of touching a button and hav ing an excellent flro for cooking ready to hand on tho minute; Imagine tho bliss of sitting at tabic and baking your own waffles on a pretty aluminum Iron at your elbow whllo you wait: or scrambling your eggs, or boiling your coffeo. With all due respect to tho amiablo and convenient gas stove it la outclassed out-classed hero; you cannot bring it into the dining room. If our ingenious men over again withdraw their attontlon from submarines sub-marines and aoroplanes and fix it upon domestic appliances wo will soon have all our problems of sorvico solved for us. Once upon a tlmo there was a very fortunate woman who had a husband who was an Inventor; ho was also a porson who lovod his homo and who spent a groat deal of timo in it and bo he gavo much of his leisure to lightening his wlfo's burdens. In tho course of his labors ho arranged her sewing machine bo that it was run by a motor; ho had an electric fixturo by which tho windows could bo closed on cold winter mornings without anyono getting out of a warm bed to do this work; he contrived an olectric alarm to arouso the cook at a proper hour, and his ingenuity per-feotod per-feotod a plan by which a serving tablo could bo brought along aide the dinner din-ner table, when used dishes could bo placed upon It and it could bo shoved into tho background again. Tho pleased and proud wife of this skillful porson admlttod that ho had thought of moro ways to caso the burdens of housekeeping In ono month Imagine Tho Bliss Of Sitting At Table And Baking Your Own Waffles Whllo You Ent. than she and her mothor and her grandmother had in tho entlro term of their apprenticeship at the trade, and sho declared sadly that while women aro clevor enough In other things they seem to lack that particular particu-lar turn of mind which makes for Inventiveness. But it ls a very unusual household now which does not boast somo electric elec-tric Implement upon which cooking may be dono. One reason for this is that electricity creeps into rural districts dis-tricts where gas never penetrates and whero thereforo the gas stovo ls out of tho question. In a certain neighborhood they were having water troubles last month. Thero had been a drouth and the water wa-ter supply furnished by a small com- :' flail I pany nearby proved insufficient; there- . j 85I foro a largo company was importuned !f jJ3d to tako ovor tho neighborhood, and ! SSI! whllo mains wore being laid and " llil I trenches dug that country wont dry; SSj' 1 much drier oven than William Allon ', Hg 1 Whito lmaginos Kansas to be. ' B! I Thero was no gas in this land and S tho fires in ranges had to bo aban- m doned lest all tho empty water Doilers ' ?j burst. Coal-oil stovos wero forbidden jjSj by tho authorities for fear that some g inadvertent match might Bet a Are which could not be quenched In that i Ilj' waterless land. ' Sill It was thon that tho little electric 5j stove camo into its own. It was then , i that tho valuo of a small pleco of ' I M 13 electrically heated metal about five by i twelve Inches was demonstrated. In J 9 111 ono household tho entlro cooking for iwB a family of four was dono on such 'all1 a stove for a fortnight It requlred f i, somo Juggling to bo suxo, but many f Q an appetizing meal was prepared on fl j this midget In its triple character of 'HI plain stove, brollor and toaster. J a Alas, that tho electric stovo has al- jflfl most driven the chafing dish out of Jj JH 9 oxistenco for though the chafing dish ' W& Is picturesquo and lends Itself admir- v 1 ably to romance tho olectric stovo is jffi qulckor, needs no draughts of alcohol ' '.' and may bo pressed into servlco at a r fi r moment's notice. 'S f And so many's tho Welsh rarebit II ji that will bo made on it when autumn , Sjl j and the theatre season como together, j whllo old chafing dish sits neglected "I II J on tho Bholf. :) Jj r |