The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 145
thout a servant they of the near future. At present it isonly possible where there is a currentrunning through the streets, or wherethere is wealth enough to maintaindynamos and a competent engineer.Cooking by electricity costs very much^more than by gas. It is somewhatcleaner, and the heat can be… … A Steam Cooker. admit the regulating of the current thatenters the house. This puts the con-trol of the supply in the hands of theservant. There has recently been in-vented and brought into general use, es-pecially for the tenement-house people,a gas meter in which, by mechanicalarrangement, a…
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