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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1910)
Chinese Educators (Copyrlrht. 1D09, by Frank O. Carpenter.) HANUHAI, UOJ.-(Speclul Corra- S apondenca ot Tha lire.) Ona of I tha problama which China la booka. A public ichool ayatem la being aatabllahed all over tha unplre. Academies, collngca and unlvrl tlea are being organlifid, and books are needed for teaching tha new learning. When the ayatem la In full away mllllona of volume will be required, and at preaent thcra la practically nothing on liir.d. Tha old text books describe the earth as flat, with China covering the most of Its sur face,, and the other countries skirting tha edges. Tha chief studies of the pant were the reading and writing Chinese and the committing to memory the snylnits of Confucius and Menaolua. Today the nation WBnts on scheme of modern education. The government haa resolved that It shall have It, and a compulsory system of school Ing Is to be generally established. Buppoia that tomorrow our president and congress should enact laws wiping out our public schools, replacing them with others vitally different, with an entire new list of books. That Is the equation In China today. Books for Four lIUHdrod Millions. China, moreover, has four times as many people aa the United States. Its children of school age ar mora than 1O0,X,OOO, and In tha new scheme tha grown-ups as well as tha babies ar anxious to learn. There are kindergarten land primary departments for tha little onea, there are night achoola for civil officials, military schools for tta army, and law schools for would-be states wen. AH these are under way, and there are no booka to feed them.. The sltuutlon Is pne of the strangest In history. It haa no counterpart In the past, and will prob ably have none In the future. In the meantime books are being Im ported from half a doren different coun tries. The groat school book publishing houses of Great Britain, tha United Sttaes and Japan are studying the field and are hipping in translations of text books of on kind and another. The Macmlllans of London and New York hava published ome, the American Book company and (Jinn of tha United States others, and as for the Japanese, they arfe pirating the school books of other nstlons and sending them here by tha ton. t'hlsia's Blssest rabllsblna- House. Up to tha present time most of the mod- rn text booka Ir- us have been made by Omaha's 0 T -to. ,z k- v rf C ... u f Orsx i h -P Alft Cfiru. i. ..... . .. .j - 0km, mmm ........i. I m.im m ii.i.ni n.. i ,. m '" hum Seated, from left to right: brigadier General Charles Morton. U. 8. A.; Colonel Cornelius Gardener, Blxternth United States Infantry; Judge Lob S. Esieile; Major Jumes Dahlman; Adjutant General Hariigan. Blending, frum Uft to right: Ueiitmuuu Dtbu K. Miehatiis. aide-de-camp to General Morton; Major Adams, assistant quartermaster geiietrel on guvernoi's slsff; Captain Joseph K. Gohn, Sixte. nth United Btates Infaiury; Major Ed V, Berryman, governors staff; Captain W. K. Jonei, V. H. A.; Major Kesurson. governor's stuff; Lieutenant Colonel A. I'. Eetter man. Inspector general, governor's slatf; Major K. II. Phelps, ussistant Inspector general, governor's staff; Lieutenant Colonel A. D. Falconer, quartermaster general, governor's staff ;' Lieut Mian t Colonel W. E. Baetlir, Firat regiment, Nebraska National Ouatd.t. NO't AbLES WHO ATTENDED THE DEDICATION OF THE NATIONAL GUARDS ARMORY IN OMAHA. t HE formal opening of the now National Guards armory in old Fraternity hall, on Hamuy, op- posit the public library, wus male tha occasion of a brilliant military event Monday evening. 'tiieie w.er presunt, In addition to the representatives Of the local militia com- panles. a number of the governor's military staff and number of officers of the regu- lar army e-onnecled with Department of the Missouri headquarters and adjacent military posts. Those of the regular army wore Riigadler General Charles Morton, commanding , the Department of th Missouri; Lieutenant Otho E. Mlchaelis. aide-de-camp; Lieu- tenant Colonel F. F. Eastman, chief com- inissary; Major D. E. McCarthy, chler Q II jr. w uartriuMter ilv- ''i' uartermaster; Colonel Cornelius Gardener tn new armory will house the provl- The establishment or the new armory nss , , . T farm which. In the past, has been a most In England. A storage battery supplies th veyd by wlr from an f th sixteenth Infantry, Captain Joseph atonal battalion of the National Guard, already had th tendency to mcreas in ....... -.-....- .-....... oourBKlr factr In securing farm labor, current when the wind is not blowing. socket over the Ironing , Gohn. Sixteenth Infantry, and Captain consisting of Companies I and O of the enlistments In ths several companies, ana "'""""; "" ,"'"-" Electricity easily does the milking, sep- Th contractors building the Southern fiatlron. for there, was , K. Jn. Sixth Infantry, assistant Second regiment and L of the First rtgl- It Is hoped that In due Urn they .n oe " " al.allllj and churnUig as well as turnlnf l'aciflo exten-ion through the mountains ways at exactly lbs right United States AS my nienu mi provuionsJ battalion will be recruited to their maximum. - . .-- -U& y TTTJ the miHsionarles. One of tho lni'Rest presses of the far east is that of the Trsbyterlan mission at Shanghai, ar.othtr of connldor- able else btlomjs to tho MethoJlutg, and there are a few of other denominations. The only large secular house which has yet been organised to take advantage of new conditions Is the Commercial Press of this city. It was established a little more than ten years ago. with a paid-up cap- ltal of $30,0JO silver. It has since grown humm ng with modern machinery. I went out to-see this establishment last wetk. It lies within two miles or so of Shanghai proper, on the other side of liongkew cretk. On my way to It I drove past a mile or so of fine foreign residences, with wide porticos and galleries about them, by muny stores occupied by Chinese, by schools and colleges run by the mis sionaries and on out Into the country. X was acoompaniea oy ona oi me managers . and with him went through the various branches of the establishment. The Commercial Press Is making every- tblnw from kindergarten lesson books to English-Chinese dictionaries, geographies and booka ot mining and eugincorlng. It haa a large lithographing plant, where a dosen presses are turning out schoul booka In colors. In one room they were printing a. calendar for the coming year, using twelve different colors, and in another making earda of many colors, depicting plant and animals for teaching the Chinese babies. Much of the printing was done from u touts, but there were also large etching and half-tone plants with corn- plete photographic appliances. In one well lighted department I found a dozen Japan- ese artiBts working away, and In another was snown maonines ior reuucinB orawinss to any scale. Borne of the engravers were cutting out copper plates for new national currency, and others were etching out plates for achool book Illustrations. I spent some time watching them printing bank notes. The lithographic atones were placed on the presses and the various colors ap- plied In succession giving sufficient time between the different Impressions for the Ink to dry. Where many colors were re- tjulred tho sheets were passed on from walled the sides of a large room from press to press, a separate stone being used floor to celling. Anothr room was de for each color. This was to avoid wasting voted to storing electrotype plates, every time In changing Ink, one set ot presses thing being catalogued and as systematic being equipped with red, another with tally arranged as In one of our modern green and others with blue, yellow or printing offices at home, black. In the composing room each printer Our alphabet has only twenty-six let- stood In a littla alcove walled with cases, ters, and the characters used by our prln- Soldiers In New Adjutant Oeneral Hartigan of the Ne- brak National Guard was present as the special representative of the governor. Lieutenant Colonel W. E. Haehr of tha irt reglmant Nebraska National Guards, actd as master of ceremonies. Th Mix- ttumh United Stales Infantry band from fort Crook furnished the music for th affair. The address of welcome was delivered by Mayor J. C Dahlman, and short addresses were delivered by Urlgadler General Mor- lo"- Colonel Cornelius Oerdener of th H xteeiith United States Infantry, Judge Lee Katell and Adjutant Gjnerul Hartigan. All 'he addresses bore particularly upon the necessity for an organised National Guard, as a nucleus for a volunteer army In the event of war. TILE OMAHA Adapt American Books to Their School Needs w r. r7." Hf .t ' V iv L fV - iT .' ;( M A- n t ' ' '-I1! '.-i.it I' T I" I ' r, e ... Hi ' Hi if tn.:..&?i-n . f';. ir (v ii m (in H ?iV HI I ft !'(.. w f; n ri v it .A !' w , ters are comparatively few. The claslc Chinese has many thousand diameters; and, In the slmprest or the school rookh, several thousand are uol. In the Chinese now In use eviry charcater expiess.-s a word; the language Is idloKiapnio; that is, It Is written In words, rather than let- ters and syllables. A Chinese alphabet Is now being formed and a new system of writing Inaugurated. J. T TirfSHfllT gill art I1II1UIII1I1IU 10 TWIil brush and India Ink, the brush being held - '.t perpendicular. About 2.000 yea,, PP hd LneuU UP" u,vtd 'bu' ,hlsJ!,'.f to produce by the brush, and It was prac tically abolished. Metal pens and fluid Inks will -now be brought In, and the old curves will come into usa. This will piao tically kill the brush-pen and India Ink business, and a great Industry will go to the wall. The new alphabet Is to have, fifty let- With ,, different system of print ,,n(f and wrltin wlll come nto being, and tn9 probability la that the typewriter will be so adapted to the new system that it will come 1 nto use. $ In the Casting; Room. At present every character employed In the printing houso has to have Its own inairlx and be cast separately, and the characters are so delicate that they must be now In order to do good worn. In the composing room I visitud, six dif ftrent lzs of type were employed, and of these more than 8,000 characters of each style are kept on hand. This neces sltates the making of D0.003 different charaoU.rSi etu.,, of wnlL.h mUst have Its own malrlXi OI. alei in, tha t,ape of a brass type from a yuarler to half Inch g(4Uare an)j an lncn long. This die is f(Ue(j (nto a casting box, and by turning a crank tho types are turned out at the rate ot twenty or thirty a minute. A ggore or so of such machines were busy at the time I went through the stereo- typing department, and their clicking made as much noise aa so many corn sheliers. In an adjoining room 1 was shown the matrices of the books already published. They filled the shelves which and he usually had a boy to run and Armory under the command of lieutenant eoionci Baehr, and for the first lime In the history uf Omaha, militia companies, the three companies are housed under one roof. Th hsll has been admirably aqulpped for tha purposo and will tend to Increase the esprit de corps of the militia organisations hera. Following the reception of Monday .veiling, which was attended by a large number of men and women of Omaha, a dance was given, being the Initial military ball In the new armory. Th regular nights for drill will be Mon- day, and the public Is Invited to visit the armory on these evenings In order to be- com better acquainted with th National Guard, and to learn what It is and what It Is for. SUNDAY BEE: JANUAUV j . 1 SI I f Vr 1'i-tx', , -A H ft f i p M a je ?i 1 fti hi u -i: i 'W ,4 JTf TT hii' n fr ir. r,- fetch the types from other parts of the room. With the Htndrry Ulrla. next wunt Into the binding Upan- ment and spent some time t.cre watch ing the girls. There , were hund.eds of them, Ureed in long blue coats and wida trousers, with bands ot black silk' over their oily , black hair. They tat at labia, with their little deformed feel just touch ing the floor. They worKd so ousny mat I r"mrkd upon It, whereupon the mana ger, who acted as our guide, said: "Wo pay them by piecework, and they have no time to waste." I asked as to their wages. The man re plied: "Oh, they are making much money, far them! Some of the best earn ' Mexican por week, or about 3 in gold. The aver age workman la puld iibout I1.D0." These girls were . Itching and sewing folding and pasting, and also feeding the presses. Their hours were about twelve per day. The department cuii.uined much modern machinery, and the work of bind ing was economically done. Celestial Book Pirates. China haa no copyright law. 1 found the Commercial Press stealing everything th.it Its managers think of value for the new Chinese school, No matter what the copy- rights are, foreign authors must be con- tent with the hope that their bonks may do good, even though tl,ty do not add to their financial receipts. As I looked over tne volumes printed by tnis company for the new education I found many well known American text books which have been translated into Chinese. I siw also stacks of my own "Geographical Riaders," published on cheap paper, with abomlnablo illustrations. I was told tho whole series had been prepared for the press, and thai my books on North America and Europe were already in use. The matter hus been translated by the English-Chinese scholars, andl as far as possible, verbatim, but how correctly only those who can read the Chinese teachest characters can know. as I looked at my books tha manager of the company said they sold well and that he expected to get a good revenue from Carpenter's "Asia," which was then In the press. He explained apologetically that they had been forced to change soma of the literary matter In the chapters on China, as their people did not like to be told that they had buttonhole eyes, plg lalled heads and deformed feet. He made no bones about taking my books without pay, and even offered to make a royalty contract with me if I would write him a new reauer or so especiutty uuapieei iu inn busy, and he thereupon suggested that the book could be written for me In their office, und thut I could revise it. Hut In thut case they would e"xpect to pay u mueh less royalty. I told him such a proposition was out of the iuesilon. but notwithstanding this he bruiight it up axuin and again, and uir.iil It upon me at a Chinese dinner w hlch he guve me thut night. Among t lie other books In the ware house 1 saw piles of Chinese-English, dic tionaries. They were in two volumes eacu as big us an ordinary table Webster. They are practically a translation of the Stand ard dictionary, which Is so largely used in the United States. They were edited by Dr. Yon, who has been connected w.th our. legation in Washington. The tw o vol umes are widely distributed: they sell for about $U In gold. Pocket dictionaries are also printed, and a native law dictionary Is now In press. This will be sent out to the law schools, which are now being es tablished at all the provincial capitals. School supplies. After visiting the editors, 1 was taken to another large building, which contains a curious branch of this publishing house. It Is devoted to school supplies, and makes everything from detks to blowpipes for the r chemical laboratories. It munufaeuur. s pendulums, globes. Indian clubs and dumb bells. The dumbbells are cast lrom pig Iron; they are made In great quantities, and it Is Intended they shall be used In ail public schools. Every room of this school book factory is lighted by electricity, and all are con- nectcd by a telephone system. The ma- chlnery la up-to-date, and on the whole It shows one something of what is toln on In the new China. , Mission School Books. At present a large proportion of the new text books are printed upon the mission pietses. The missionaries have been at work in China for a century, and they have established schools In all parts of the country. They were the authors of the first new text books, and as teachers their graduates are now in demand. The American Presbyterian mission press at Shanghai has been pouring out volumes for a number of years at the rate of 90,- OUO.OuO puses per annum, and the cotisul- I.tmnrf miiHli.n nrcm of Ilia Ameiinan Ui.h. litutod mission prt ts or til Amei man M.n- odlsts has also published numerous edu cational works. The American Bible so ciety distributes between CiOO.ooO and 1.0U0. 0U0 volumes uf the Scriptures In Chinese each year, and there la now a mission edu cational association, supported by all the Protestant keels, which Is preparing new 7f lfi, 1910. 1 v t I " I 7 SCHOOL SOY OF wayt. They have printed charts, of tha Chinese provinces, with the principal In dustries and resources marked upon thorn, and have Inaugurated new methods of teaching the people. Ind.ed, the work which the missionaries have done cannot be overestimated, and the situation here just now Is such that money spent upon missions will return a thousand-fold. Carnegie of China. Tn this connection a bright woman clerk r the mission book store of Shanghai said of to me toilny: "AAhat China need more thnn anythlnx else is a system of circulating libraries, whloh shall contain the simpler Books of our modern literature, Including tho scrip tures, concordances and the western claslcs. Theue people are pining for the new learning, but they are unspeakably poor and cannot afford to buy books. The Chlni's women want them. In every com munity clubs are already established where the women come together weekly or dally to gossip and talk If they could have such books they would be read aloud at these meetings and a great educational movement might thus be Instituted. As to the Chinese translations, they are cheap. The concordance of the scriptures costs less than 20 cents gold and there me few books of any kind that sell as high as a dollur." I cite this conversation as a suggestion for some rich. American who would like to be known as the Carnegie of China. $ Chinese Literature. The Inauguration of the new school sys- tern and the new civilization Is bringing In translations of the most popular books Why Street Car Ltvhta Are Dim. HO has not noticed when riding w on the street cars it night that sometimes the lamps which light the carslairn very dim for a minute and then seem to burn very blight? Soniet.mrs they almost go entirely out, then suddenly come on again. To the ordinary traveler all this is very mystifying, but to the; elcc- trlcal engineer It Is simplicity Its.if. , If a Bmall hole was drilled in a water pipe just above a faucet, tho water, under pressure, would rush out at terrific speed; but if you should open the fauc-;t the pressure would Immediately drop down bo i,.u- tha vnt.i, unuM nil r,,,i n..n ... f . , ,, tiny hole. This I. exactly what o the incandescent lump In a . . . Buddenly ,.. dlll, on)v , ,B elactl.lolty we Bra tailfw wth ,a;,,nd pf water.. t0 tart a loadvd rtreet cur requires an enormous amount of cite;- tticlty, the motors fairly eat up th" cur- re;it in order to get the necessary etierling- puwer, or torque, us It Is called. UnV such a quantity of electricity relieves the uressure. or voltaire. of the svatem. and of course the lights burn dim until the cur is under way. Nearly all street car systems operate at C'O volts pressure. Thet lamps In the oar consume current at 110 volts pressure and they are connee'ed In groups of five In series across the b.0-volt circuit. When the voltage for these lamps drops below 110, because of the large amount of cur rent going to the motors under the cars, not enough electricity is blng forced through the lamp filaaient to heat It to In candescence and of course tha light is dim. Opening wide the current conductors to the motors suddenly lowers the line pressure, which In turn reduces the prc sure on the lamps. Once the car Is under way the motors do not reeiulre r,i much rnrriMif A nrt tho limRsnri fMhi.iu t, fht ,anipB all(, tlu,y continue to give their rated cand)e r unU, Uwo ,he CBr .,,. Prosm. In Klerlrlenl Farming:. There Is no longer any reason why evi n the farmer of moderate means should not enjoy all the home comforts of his city cousin. The day when bath tubs, lighting Plants, water systems ior .ue jjuhc. i.uu nd heating furnaces were to be found ony 1,1 larger villages and in the cities ha one forever. Today there are few 'ural villages too small to boast of all these things and the farmer has caught the spirit of the times and his up-to-date farm house Is lighted with electricity and heated by steam. It Is supplied with fin bath rooms and running water and other modern conveniences, A few years ago the electric light and power plants Installed on farms were very few and far between. A few adventurous farmers had dared to harness their moun tain pasture streams and turn their water energy into electricity for use about th house and barns; a few more had Installed gasoline engines for th same purpose, These early Installations proved a succss . i. - ...... i. .. .... ..... iron, inn iimt nuti a uv iuiii, uwum . ,.. . . . .,... ...... ,.,.... llieir wui in w-M iai.ru film niiii'M about until almost every well-to-do farmer was considering ,th question of a similar installation. Aside from the many benefits-and econ omies of electricity for lightly, liratlng and cooking In the farm house, it readily us- eumes must ot the hard work about the 4. n 'V . .. , 'i., l ; .... . 6-.u!Aijurun of the western world. Today I21 novels, orlalnally written in English, French or German, are In circulation. They havo been translated Into Chinese, and tde de- """A for thn' Increasing. In one year "fty-even such novels were Issued. Thoy Included translations of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Jules Verne's "Voyage to the Moon" and Charles Lamb's "Tales from Shakespeare." One of tho mont pnpulur of the new issues is Conan Doyle's "Memories Of Sherlock J. Holmes" and another Is "Robinson Crusoe." Among translation from the French are "Les Miserable" and '"Manon Lescaut." and the most populur English storlts are 'Ivanhoe" and other novels of Sir Walter Scott. Thfse works are published on cheap paper; they are sold by booksellers In various cities, some bringing a little as 10 cents apiece. Ono of the reoent translation of this nation sold to the extent of 400,000 .copies, and that within a year; another had a circulation of 138,000 copies within eighteen months, In addition to novels, some heavy works, such as Darwin s "Origin of Species," Hpencer's "Evolution" and Mill's "Essiy on Liberty," aro bUng published, and the new constitution has created a demand for treatises on politics and parliamentary v - miioiiiiiiuijr law, Dr C. D. Tenney, formerly head of the Chinese university at Tientsin, and now the Chinese secretary of our legation at r V In the Field of Electrical Experiment tha washing machine and the wringer. In he barn it Is applied to feed cutter.", corn snemers, ieca giuiuiis una eo uo oi.icr small machinery, such as the grindstone, lathe and a small burs saw for cutting fir wood. The threshing machine and fanning m"l very easily belted onto the port- ble motor. In Germany and a few other foreign countries electricity Is also used to advantage to pull the plows, harrows, rakes, cultivators, binders, mowers and "tber outdoor machinery, In the house the farmer's wife can have ner electric cooking devices and electric fatlron as well as her oity sister. 1 ne numoer or electrical plants on farms is increasing with marked ruuldltv. A few these plants run by small wuU-r powers, but the majority use smalt gasoline en- glnes and storage batteries. Tho time Is surely coming when the majority of far- l'"r wl" consider electricity a necessity und matter how far they ure located from elee trlc power stutions, or power transmission lines, they will find means to l,ecur Plenty of cheap electricity. Many uf electrie:al eiigiiieers of Hie General r.lectrlc company predict tnal in a rew more years tha electriu power lines will ex tend out from tho cities and large towns into the highways mid byways of the coun try where every farmer can tap the Una und purchase at a very reasonable figure all the power he requires for his farm woik. Train IHapa tclilngy by Phone. Reports from Hannibal, Mo., stale with out qualification that train dlupatching by telegraph on the Burlington system be tween Hannibal and tit. Louis Is to be dis pensed with tiiis month and the telephone substituted. Nearly all of the telegraph Instruments on the Hannibal division and also on the Mexico line, were silenced a few nights ago, but some dispatching is yet being done by telephone, owing to the fact that the telephone line is not quite complete. About a year and a half ago the Bur- lington built a line between Chicago and Mendota, III., on the Aurora division, and began dispatching trains on that stretch of track by telephone. Soon the entire Aurora division was equipped with tele- phones, and later the Galesburg division, Only recently the telegraph Instruments on the Brookfttid division between Han- nlbal and Brook field and Brook field and Qulncy were removed and train dispatch- lug on that division is now being carried on with the aid of the telephone. Several other divisions of the Burlington system are equipped with telephones, but not all. However, th officials expect to eventually do away with th telegraph In- truments altogether, and probably by next summer not a sound of the telegraph in strument can be heard over the great "Q" system. Kleolrical Notes. The North Dakota is the first ship of our navy to he equipped with electric ranges tor in. uon'n The wireless apparatus on the Cunard ii.,Mf t'vmnla t tha most Dawerful of anv - ' i ,,,, ..hit. aereiee. bavin? a. ud ui nt r . - 1,200 tulles. In a few more months It may b possible to tele-graph photographs serosa the At- luntlc from New York to Ixndon by pro- crssts now being perfetcted. A new windmill apparatus for generating electricity for farm use has been perfected I) v. -f 2 .a 1 It tm- w ML it !'"V-. 7 0. t f-t-i -jnij...v . Teking, rta published a number of school nooks, which are In a general we. Indud- 'ng readers, primers end geographic, nnd Mr. Mylle of tho London MIfkIoii ho, piv- Pr-d a complete series tf text books ar,l mathematics In the Chines, for the Jap- anene translators. A large number of tha. new :iun:atlors como from the Japanese. The written languages of Japan and Chin t are soiue- what simllur, and the Japanese scholar learns quickly to speak, read anil write the Chinese. In tho Comm.-tolal Press editorial room a large number of Jap.inesn men are rmployid as translators, and 1 find Japanese teachers In all tha ChineH" educational centers. Much of tha new school furniture has been made In Jspan, nd a large number of the modern maps anJ charts. The Japanese teachers will work for lower salurles thun other foieigneis, umi thla is one reason for their employment. As a rule, they are not thorough, niul the probability Is that they will eventually bo replaced by Americans, l'Jns.lshinui or Germans. I look for the ,te :dy Increase In the number of A mm lean teachers. There are hundreds of Chinese now studying In the United Stutes,. and tho re are many Ainer- I..B n-l h I uric mtrlnuhH In All rP . ,, , ' these have a high regard for our nuthous of education, and they would favor the election of our oullege graduates as lead- ers for the new schools FIIANK Q. CARPENTER. near the Jalisco-Teolo uoun.larv there U heavy tunnel work, will Irnve the urn of electric power. , A gyroscopic car weighing twenty-two tons and carrying forty passengers has been successfully tested In England. The car is propelled by electricity produced from a gasollno engine-driven g, n iator. American ?how window lighting is b.-lng introduced in London. It is customary in the English capital for shop keepers to barricade every window with heavy Iron shutters Just as soon as the day's business Is over. This is a relic of tho.se ancient ' days when It was not safe to leave tha shop unprotected, but the American plan J' 'IM"wl l"I"Uya and, ""'""i'11 8t" f,"tH beln -cessfully Introduced. u 'lneU for a boarding house full' l,t M 1,1 "t Boston to discover real merits and possibilities of the "" eiuetron. imii many of these girls economy in their habits m strictly ueces- saiy, and when they found out t.n y could vt a small electric flatiioi, whlc.i could be readily attached to the lighting fixture, an meir luces or ev n u shlrt- waist, they were quick to Invert their savings for this little household econ omizer. Hut one of these self-same guis. witn a bit of Inventive genius iilcKly ells- covered that the electric Iron could be very easily turned upside down and used es a. iuvn mure, un me rial taco or lier Iron shu easily boiled uat.r, niHtle fudge or even frlfd eggt: and Unl other c.i.iking. The Ivllclien ui Hi. IT :ri-. Science, which has fe.r iL..ij woikfil to lighten the labors of man, has now turned to aid woman in the household. Shu who once prepared the family meals over a red-hot stove; washed in a stcumltiK laun dry and cleansed her floors l vi;;.i ,i;is broom strokes, ran now practically ! It all by the manipulation of a Outlo:i al- tached to the electric liKht sys:.-m In li. r house. At the recent electrical exposition In New York, according to Gertrude IVnros in the Van Norden Mugajflna the "kitchen of the future" exhibited there, hud nona of the disadvantages with which women fur eenturlcs have had to contend. An elect r!o motor, on a porcelain stand no bigger than an ordinary card table, turned the crank of a patent bread kneader and cake mixer, ran a fruit press and an lire ere. un fi reacr, churned butter, beat eggs, whipped cream, chopped meat, ground coffer, scouted knives, polished silver and even peeled pu- tatoes. With th aid of these appliances a cool and smiling young woman turned out to admiring spectators bread, cuke, pics and biscuits as crisp and crusty as any from th beat coal oven that ever I ni ce, roait meats that wer all crackly brownness out side and Juicy tenderness Inside, ste:.s and chops broiled Just right over their e i tlre surface, stacks of golden gtiddleiuke.i, piles of brittle toast, pots of steaming cof fee, doughnuts, "rabbits." Newhurglis; ev(rytnlng tn, hsart-or at leaM lie p4 uto ,,f ma could desire. whita (be vouna woman In pink demo.i- . . . . ,uin,iAM r ,in i.e.... liriiea UU po""llu" .. ,..il , nnOiner yuuil wu.i ....w, iimn, smiling and unruffled, did a futility w,ih. A nlotor connected with an electric Mailt .ouket turned a highly modern v ashing machine, wringer and mang e. urieut Df iotiieally hrated sir drle.1 ' :!h-.s jn an enclosed space no blgy. i t .in an ordinary bathroom. And electrlcty co v electric llglft . board heuted th but one, kept al- heat. i t: X ' 4 I i ' I I I J
