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Show oo FLATIRONS GO TO SCRAP HEAP. In one eastern city more than 15,000 electric flatirons arc now In service in private families. Not only do these new electric Irons Bavo an enormous amount of labor but they have relegated relegat-ed 135 tons of old flatirons to the junk heap. Every electric Iron displaces at least three old fashioned Irons, because be-cause two irons had to be kept on tho fire heating while one was being used. Forty-five thousand displaced sadirons sad-irons would weigh 270,000 pounds. An engineer has figured out that substitution of an electric laundry Iron for three "sad" irons saves for the woman, who has mado tho change, 200 miles in a year walking to and fio in a lira! en path between the iron-,in iron-,in bwird agd the range. |