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Show Home Comfort Sought One of the significant and encouraging encour-aging trends of modern life, both urban ur-ban and rural, is the growing demand for greater comfort in the homo. This is indicated by the increasing em ployment in the household of modern conveniences and labor-saving devices de-vices which make for contentment and health. Engineers and manufacturers are bending their energies to the development develop-ment of ever beter equipment to replace re-place the old symbols of drudgery, such as the broom, the washtub and '.he coal scuttle. Incidentally, th" present perfection of oil heater systems sys-tems promises to cause the coal scuttle, scut-tle, wood box and ash heap to go the way of the horse and buggy. Among the new devices for the home described in a recent article on modern mod-ern housekeeping Is a heater called the disto-stove. so named because it uses distillate from crude oil as fuel, which is claimed to combine convenience, conven-ience, cleanliness and uniformity of temperature at a low cost. This fs only one of the numerous first aids to housewives- recently developed. Perhaps the introduction of appliances appli-ances which make the home more cheerful and comfortable will do more toward preserving our family life than all the preachments of pessimists ana reformers. |