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MAN tlnjro was In u new home iilt ,
, wliii nniwlnnliiil n i. ,.!.. .. . . "Mil- '"
incuts vMth varlou kinds of urlt-
flclul illumlnnnts. but the results
WA ' woro ovcr tl,u same his monthly
"- light bills wore too high
-'Would that somo ono would Invent a
wuy to hottlo sunshlno!" ho cried out in
despair.
VIf you hud a nlco Burden nnd somo
anlmnl snenked In every night and uio
tin- elghly-flve per cent of yjnir vegc-tubk-s,
would you kill llr" asked the
young engineer, who overheard the la-
ll)Wlt.
'.'You bet your life r would," snorted
the. older mun, "but what's iliat i;ol to
do yliTi my rcgulur monthly trlbute7"
."It Is your own fault that your IIkIU
bills aro too high, livery night whrn
you turn on your lights a monster call
ed Absorption gumshoes Into your house
tho gas lamps, and It Is Uio
electric lamp, hcatod by the mysterious,
current, which gives It light. ,
There nro as many different colors of
light as there ure shades of negroes
in tho south. Tho 'sun, high in the
heavens, gives, almost a pure white
light, which Is the goal toward which
Inventors, aro striving. The light from
the north at noon has a bluish tinge.
uniy uio very uesl arc and Incandescent
lamps produce n light anywhere near
akin to actual sunlight. Tho light from
a keroseno flume Is orange In color, t)io
mnntlo burner gives a greenish white
light, the candle produces an orange
yellow light, old carbon Incandescent
lamps produce a reddish yellow light,
nals with the only perfect light In the
world a light without heat. Whenever
tlnrl Mtnnlu i.lt-litt.-flt.n i.1M .. .. lh
iw iiiu IIIUI.U ueui ui mcuiiucsceiicc.
blno to steal away mo3t of your llnht.
You uivo to pay for tho actual light
our lamps give, but In reality you get
only fifteen per cent of the light you
pay for, becaifso you aro being system
atically robbed by tho wall paper and
woodwoik, tho chairs and tho rugs."
Soon after this tho houso was rcpa
percd In light buff tints and tho wood
work was painted while. As a result
of this change tho electric' light bills
were cut In lialvos. Sovcnty-flvo per
cent of tho candle power of each lamp
was being utilized, consequently It took
less than half tho number of lamps to
light tho rooms.
tlo Into most any home mid-you will
flud someone following you about turn
ing down or turning off tho light, try
ing to economize on light and paying no
intention to tho costly errors which
make tho light bills excesslvp. As a
rule light fixtures aro stuck In any old
place to suit tho whims of tho archi
tects and tho economies of tho electri
cal contractor. Wall papers and paints
aro selected to please tho eyo Instead
bf for their light-reflecting qualities.
Without delving Into tho horrors of wall
paper color und design, sufflcoit to say
that If care woro taken In this respect
many, a hard-earned 'dollar would be
saved on the monthly light bills. Cheap
walljp.ipor of a dark and growsomo hue
Is about tho dearest thing any one can
put Into a room.
'Absorption Is tho great enemy of
light. -It lurks In every shadow and hit
of (Urkness, ready to eat up tho tender
light, rays. Tho best lamp In tho, world
cannot light up a room where a large
percentage of the light rays arc ub-i
sorbeU by tho finishings. A certuln
mulatto-colored desk lu a dark-finished
office required four powerful Jncandes-1
cent lamps combining 128 candlopowcr
lo glyo two-foot candles, or tho required
amount of light for woiklng purposes'
on the desk top. When tho desk was i
exchanged for a light oak and tho walls'
mid ceilings were finished in a light
buff It too kless than sixty-two candle
power to glvo thu same lllumlnutloii
a saving of half, .
Thu following table gives somo Idea
oft 4ho reflecting qualities, of different
Miuidurd colers:
Mirror 95
White blotting paper 82
. Chrome yellow C2
Or; i n'go so
Yojlow 10
I'Jljk, 30
j:n)(;t,ihl green 18
)ajk, brown , 1,1
Vermillion ; 12
Ulaek paper '. 0.5
i;fl chocolate 0. II
DIack velvet o. I
Incandescence.
A piece of red- hot carbon large
enough to glvo tho nameamount of light
as iio wouin American glow woian
thlough tliiTgrea'tor part of the dunnd Klcctrlelty Is the only tiling I can rc-
nlght. Tito (i'()! ilrtuiKlil wilt ipilckly " ii' louny llinn It did
bring up the tin when It Is needed. I "' your, In Its history, owing to ns-
cnlor of the light In which wo see them.
For this very reason one should try to
procure u light of the same strength
Mul chat-acler iim ucttiiU stlnllghl, "wlllt
the same proportion of colors, liyes are
only devices to catch the.riiptd vibra
tions of llnht. There lire llcht ravs
which travel too fiAt for human eyes "UIrcsIb" Hie fueli-lcavlng a clean whlto
Wtira" imor ehftnuey the flro has to be
run nt tuft speed all the lime, wasting
tho coat, The coal stove should also
be Watched and " regulated so that It
to r.ec, such as the X-rays, and others
which movo too islowly for us to roc
ogiilr.e, but which I'tinUk other uulmnl.i
to seo In what to us Is darknwi's.
Tho Kola lu tho Conl Bin,
Heat, the scientists tell us. Is but a
form of tjilergyyTconslstlng of rapid to-and-fro
vlbratims, among the molecules
of matter; Whether this accepted the
ory be true or not, tho average house
holder Ik-ready- to, bWonr..,Umt-the-lieu(
supply In the .modem homo Is tho re
sult of untold energy represented )iy the
dollars which vibrate through tho pock
ctbooks to the coal man.
Fuel for healing the house ami cook
ing tho food Is u very costly Item In the
course, of a year. Coal costs about $7 a
ton In most places, nnd any hints which
will help-to get the- most heat energy
out of lids pu-cloiiH material iju-ol with
thu Instant approval of every house
holder. '
Let us first put on trial Unit black,
lron-tontacled octopus in tho basement I
Tho nppetlto of the average house
furuueo 'would mako a cannibal chief,
ready to dlno off tho fat lady of a cir
cus, die or envy. Coal thrown Into Its
yawning, red maw produces nothtng but
ashes and bnckacho. All the average
man knows about a hot-air furnace I:t
that hot air x rises, and when it refuses
to. do this natural phenomenon his only
resourcu Is perspiration, profanity nnd
more coal. l)ut there was a man ono
day who reasoned that tho flro was
pot nt fault, and fell to cussing the hot-
would burn- tho insect to a clndei' In mi ulr flut'H- ln '- t1"11 resolved to
Instant, but this worm Is capublo of make them draw, whether or no, so ne
.
Somo Ideas on Meat.
Out on tho front lawn lu tho early
oKuujng tho tiny fireflies flutter back
and for.lh, wigwagging their lovo slg-
xllillll 1 Itullil . IikVA " ft.
fitfiilll v.lUmvl , pvt vuvvXt
nivrflv!jfiSiwY
m Ml I" vssmu "' hi 'y J lw I
ush. Koine stoves do not leally burn
Inoro than sl.-te'n(hs of the conl. AV'lh
n good chimney and a good slove welt
'regulated there W no need to sift the
nshes, for iiohlug thalXvlll burn will
bo left.
Cook stoves are only about sl.ty-fve
years old. Previous Jo their advent .ill
the cooking was done over a bed or
coals Iir the fireplace or In hugo Dutch
ovens, , ln those gladsome days wood
wus plenty nnd'tlie fuel cost was not
Importnnt. In the early days ,of the
parntlvely small, but todi; wlth our
coal supply limited and the price tin
limited, the cost for filet td "do our
cooking Is vory huportiint.
lonlshlng Improveniunts.-ln eh-ctilc ap
paratus. One dollar will buy ten times
Hie amount of electric light, of a vast
ly better quality, than It would pnreh
ase twenty years ago. I'oWer rates have
been dropped each yenr as the cost of
producing electricity has diminished,
and wherever electric cooklr,. Is advo
cated a special rule ill about o'le-lhlrd
the price usked 'for electric light Is ob
tainable.
In the modern eleclrlc kitchen, where
tho heat Is applied direct to the devices
and utensils Instead of thiough the me
dium of a wasteful stove, the" curre-il
Used will approximate 300 watts a meal
a person. This, translated Into, power
rates for current, means $t to fl.fio a
co.il .stovo the cost for fuel Was com-l month a person, Hvon this cost can be
considerably reduced by the Judicious
Use of the flreless cooker.
Ono family of Tour, where coal was
used for a long time, averaged $7.45 a
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For Matching Colors
A well lighted store Is The Mecca to a
woman shopping. She delights In a storo
whore she can match fabrics easily. In
buying silks, hats or any other article she
wants to seo what sho is purchasing.
A bargain, under bright light Is twice
a bargain. It is a bargain in the store and
continues to bo a bargain, when at homo
sho examines it closely.
.j. .T"0-,1308 light electric light pays big
dividends to every merchant
Try It and prove it.
Rogue River Electric Company.
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ho Cdst of Heat
11 costs Just as much to keen a coall
flro for a family of two ns It does for
n family of eight, therefore tho coal fire
Is very economical lu largo families
and very oxpenslvu lu small families.
One cannot with ptoprloty recommend
large families to lower the cost of coal
u meal, so the next best thing is to ad
vise gas or electrlo ranges for small
kfamllles, because (huso, sources of boat
show greater economies In small doses.
auoiii miriy ytmrs ago gas rouges
month to cook tho food. When gas was
Installed this cost dropped to $5.12 a
month, and when gasoline stoves wore
used tin) avetago cost per mouth drop
ped ns low as t', a month. Now elec
tricity Is used exclusively at an aver
ago cost of about 15.10 a month, the
average cost a person a meal being
l.i:i cents. In other words, for foui
persons It would- take about- four
horsepower of electricity a day to do
tin; cooking. At the special heating
rates available In most places this
9
Why All
Progressive
Merchants
Are Using
Electric
Light
Progressive merchants everywhere have found
the wonderful General Electric Mazda Lamp an
immeasurable benefit to their business. This lamp
radiates brilliant white rays nearly like those of
the sun. This superior quality of artificial
light is produced by a rare metal filament that not
only radiates a perfect light, but gives nearly three
times as much light as the ordinary incandescent
and costs no more to burn. It is this remark
able combination of facts thai is causing thousands
of people to have their houses and places of business
wired for electric light. In fact, this new G-E
Mazda Lamp is swiftly revolutionizing artificial
lighting. It is making electricity the universal
illuminant.
You owe it to yourself to at least come In and tee
this wonderful lamp. We can show you to your own
satisfaction that this G-E Mazda Lamp immensely in
creases the advantages of electric light.
Rogue River Electric Company.
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wero Introduced Into tho kitchen, and would cost but 18 .cents
lighting up Its own misplaced headlight purchased a smnll i lectrlc fan for about
tho mcrctiry aro tube gives a greenish jjo, cut a hole In the cold-air Hhaft, put
light, und so on down through tho long ulr through tin plpn lu a fine clicu-
lists.
When considering tho lighting of the
homo care should bu taken to avoid all
lights-which lutvoi.u reddish or violet
cast, as they aro most Injurious to the
t-yes.- Tlmflxture,-!, should bo so placed
huto reap Urn full benefit of overy
lamp. Don't spoil u good lamp -by cov
ering It with a llght-kllllng shude. Many
of those ornamental shadrn aro nothing
inoro or less than light sponges which
absorb most of the light rays. In burn
ing gas, remember to chaugo tin- man
tles often, as tho ciiudlopowur of these
lamps drops last when tho mantles hi
gh! to g t old. lluy llfelit colored rurnl
ture and seo that tho ceilings are neurit
ly whlto und .tliut Jhcwull.s nro papered
with somo simple paper of a' very (light
color Many of. tho,durk flnisuru;
sombre furnlshod rooms aro mule
M-Ioomy caverns, dismal and depressing.
Light Is fully as essentlaj to man us
i air and Just as much euro should be
taken to got good light, free from all
contaminating Influences, as to get the
purest mountain air. t
1 Witro thero is no light tlmro Is no
color Nearly every one will dlsputo
this fact and urtfuo that red Is rd in
the dark Just as In the sunshine. A trip
to un Illuminating laboratory will
iiilcklv dispel this popular llluiin. Itwl
Is rrd because It bus the uullty of ab
sorbing all tlw rays of the spectrum
.but the xwl. fimmU)H urv rubc!l wrd to trxprww the tiQonomlc laluy at
for un Indefinite length of time without
an, uncomfortable umount of heat. Mun
luis not yet read this slmplo riddle of
the lnsot world. Some day we may en
Joy light with very little heat, but until
thlin we must go on fallowing the ex
cellent example of the sun. whloh Is a
gcyat muta or white-hot mutvrlul.
throwing off wava Into the aurrouiid
lug ether, whloh gives us light und heat.
All ijlght from upon flumes comes from
heult-l .rirleHlir-- th flni H "
Jack to gur eyes and we suy the ihlng
Is red. Put this same piece of oloth
under the mercury upr aro lump
which contains no rel ruys tind It will
b hUck us midnight Intrnee bluck
under a yeunw iigiu hmiwi i jr-m,m
hitlou and tin house was soon warm.
Now. whenever the furuueo. 1ooh nut
work properly, ho does not waste Ilts
coal but presses a button und (ha fun
does tho trjjjk. ,
" Klectrlc fujis cuji -be utoU. also lo
suck, the air through tho hot-air plpoa.
Tho fan Is enclosed lu a small box with
ono sldo removed und a circular hole
tho Hl.o of the fan blades out In thu
opposite side. When this Imix Is set up
against tho wall register or over the
floor legister and tho fan star led the
libidos suck the air out of tho pipes and
distribute It about the room. One fam
ily saved nearly two djJlurs a inonllf
all last winter by Uflng sugji aifun.
even after deducting the ifdded clmrg
for elcotrlolty to run. the rifn, .which Jk
not -more thun hulf a cunt an hour. The
electric fun oun also be used In connec
tion wlh steam heat by allowing the
breezoto play upon tho heated surfuce
or the radiator, which will quickly
rudtate tho heat. about the room.
One or tho most expensive tilings In
the home Is tho common kllchfii vuriety
or coal stove. Not only does It require
almost constant attention', including tho
lugging or fuel und unIikh, but it con
sumes vast iuuntltli-s or high-priced
coal and Is leeponslble for most or the
dust und dirt uboul the house.
Kxtruvugance lu a weuk und puny
the kitchen ooul stove. Our of every
hundred shovelful of coal thrown Into
such m stove only the actual heut -n-ersy
of Mbout mU are u-ed for cooking
end Imklng The het from the oth-r
ninety and four either goes whistling
lull olive, under a green Hgh It Is green-1 up the chimney or Is radiated out Into
Ish yellow and under un orange Hftht it th- room to make the kitchen Insuffer.
Is a deep muroon. A dep blue under un,ubly hot At ihie rate ono lias to' pay
iiraace iteht 1h aray. Jillirhtly orange, for a hundred Urns of ooal to get the
under u yellow light It U a green blate
aad under n green lht It la reen. S
I Hi. itdArM. hm.I"" and -riiti or-
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l)w W H ",a-",j XU llimV '""' '' "' rtw'U 4 " ' tW ' W'k flW I'lvell uf .l.d HHv
heut energy or nix tons.
The flint eattenUal to save coal Is a
KM.il tthbnm-t w4ili m ainnit, tlruughi
f " '
jfliico llieii Ihey liay liuld.-t)lgliv own
more beoause of thylr alanlliiesH aifd
hundlueNS thun for t)?oir j-aai saving In
uctuul cusri. " '.
AVhon "j-Mii come tii qompurti thu gas
blljs of h ramlty of thru ,)r four with
tho coal bills or u slihjlur fumlly for
" i'vi-iuu u nu )pM.v4ri .uuitirunco ib
very slight. Uolli liuvo tiiolr udvun
tugos und dlKiuhuntagiiM. With the
coal slove. hot m uter l uvallublH at any
time of day ut no further cost, but with
gus it hue to be hw(,t"d wctru. und (his
e(uullzi-s the monthly bills.
HeverKl yeura ago moIuiiIIhIh notel
tliut electrlolty wus the only form of
energy whluh could bo 'liutuiiily eliung
ed Into heut with pruotloully no low.
This leil to the duveJopment of the
electric cooking devices which ure ao
common iodu As ofeotrloliy is the
one form or power whluh oau lie ourrled
to any old plan- with IlltluvloxH nd ap
plied In motors email enough tor u
wuich oltarm, or oipablo or tiOOO hoiae
power, in It in the most flexible form
or hunt. It qpu be liiHluntly made to
wurm u plile, or the suine preaaure of
a finger will let loose energy enough to
Nut i Mu.tri of iitafitmt,!- i it, ,,,. a ,
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Cost of Cooklnff,
ance" lu lis iuli. Tho current, under
pressure, flows easily along a copper
wire, but If you cut thls wire and In
sert a bit of iioueonduallng wjri, such
as platinum, which Resists tho flow of
the curent, tli electricity wll .work
hard to get' b'y 'this obstruction, liiiil this
work will change tin electrical energy
Into heat energy. ' If you nib a coin
briskly on the carpet It will get ulte
hot, because tho work expended on
moving the coin Is changed Into heat
energy. In nature nothing Is lost; all
mechanical o;fergy Ultimately chupges
Into heiil energy and Is radlalud away
lu particles too small to bo noticed.
Upon this principle, all the ejiictrlcal
cooking dyvlces aro constructed. A
flexible cord leads the current to the
chafing dish, ooffeo percolutor, rrylng
pun or broiler. Concealed In tho bottom
uf these utensils Is u disk of resistance
melal, which getH tpilte hot tho Instant
the; uui rent Is turned on. There Is no
waiting for slow fires. A touch of the
button and the illsh Is hot, and at the
'piussiiro of a finger the heat Is releas
ed, liow fast It goes can bo estimated
when 'It Is remembered that electrlolty
tin vein ut tho istoulsilug into of ISO,
000 miles a second. , .4,..
Kleutrlclty Is too costly to bu wasted,
so tho heating units or the cooking de
vices nro applied where they will do
the most good, so that no heat will be
lost by -radiation. The electric kitchen
Is Uio Ideal kitchen, for It Is never hot.
never filled Willi evil gases, never III
teied with coal and ashes and the
"wooden, slove" Is oimy lo" keep clean
A good coal stovo costs about ISO, a
gus stovo about I'JR, and an electric
kitchen outfit costH S7C. This Heems
high -for the latter, hut It must bu ro
membered that (he cost Included all the
kllchuu devices necessary for ' cooking J
-.-:..
tho meals, such us cereal cooker, (Vying
pan, oven, broiler, percolator, grid,
toaster, etc. An electric' device Is Jdudo
to ,heat water to tho bulling point ps
runt as It Is drawn, the turning on nnd
orf orT lliu water perforins a llko servlcu
for tlie electric uiiilcDU
Wo -aro already waking up lo tho liii
portanco of harnessing our water pow
ers for cheap electricity,, liy.nnd by,
Pitfdlols not less a person limn Chailts
Proteus Htelmnotz, the electrical wlss-
urd, thorn will bo little, ir any, coal, unit
then Wo will have to depend upon moral
available wnterpower to glvo us aji
abundance or cheap electricity for our
heating purposes, to cook our rood am)
to keep our buildings warm. Am certain
us night follows day and sqmc new and
butter source or .beat Is not discovered,
our ruturo meals will bo cooked over
tho Invisible flren of electricity, which
bus alreudy demonstrated that l Is Jiihtl
um cheap as coal or gas and vastly piora
sapltary and handy.
Ily hir the greatest drudgery about
tho houso Is the weekly wushlnjr iftnl
Ironing, lif (ho olden days, when wash
ing and iionlng were done entirely by
hand, this wan u loilg und tedhnm pro
cess. Today In tho electrlo homo the
smallwiiotor turns tho washing machine
and wrings out tho ulothlng while ihil
housewiro reads tho latest novel. Ceiv
Irirugitil dryers, run by nrutor pow.-r,
nro mado lu sixes small enough for th
larger, homes so Hint the clothing can
be dried us fust as washed, regaidhss
of Hit weather, and doing away with
all the old bother ohanglug up and
biking down the wuah. When tlm i-luii.
Ing Is' dry the electric limi Is rcutlj In
an Instant to do tho Ironing. With elec
tricity; the Ironing 01111 bo douo op tho
pack porch during the hot weather, ullii
110 ruunlng back and forth between lb
board und thu hot stovo after hot Irons.
M
'fjic cost or eltiolihj cooking with a
rule or C oents u kllowutt hour will i,ot
bo over tiiut or u good hard coal 1.1 ,
and It Is vastly nioro convunleiit Inn
any kind or coul fli. where coul imi to
io curried, ashes removed and fris!
KinijiBd, in jme family of two lb. n
tire winking and baking wus d-.n i.
eleotrlolty ut u oost or ?3.J2 a mo- n
Aiifilliffi fmttllv. ,.r ii...... , .
... ..,.,,,t . nil Vll uiHlh' M 1V1 II,
electrlo heut at a monthly u,n i.f'
tl.Vi. The electrlo fiutlruiiH can l -i,
orated tor lens than 6 oents un i,.i.
u pot of coffe cosla 1 cent to brew ov r
the JnvlsJIlp riruai lun slices of lin-a.. 1
oun be toasted on the dlnlng-rooui t
ble for I cent; the gliuftng dish can 1 .
run for t coats un hour; the teu initio
will boll 1111 hour for S cents, Ibc dm
stove will heep shutting nt r ,
hour for r, cents; for 3 ueule tin- c-nn
tsipper will work one hour; the lieuhit;1
lud will roniulii wurm for two hours
for u slnglo copper; 7 oents wilt biuil a
large steak; the huby's milk can bi
wurmwl half u doen' ttmea for u CL,,t
und s on down a long list.
UiiKMi it Oal h 1 h.m'.i .1 it.- .1.11 , '
lulu iieei 1 iiibtiUug a bil of Hsiht '
" THE
BURGLAR'S
ENEMY.
Inthoconfosslons
of a burglar recent
ly publi3hod In tho
Ladlos Home Jour
nal, tho man said.
"Othor things bolng
mttmm oqual, a burglar will
always pass a
. houso llorhtod hu
olootrlolty. Housos 00 wlrod aro
practically trans for tho buro-iar'
Ho oxplained further that by pros
suro of a button on an upper floor, the lower ono
might bo Illuminated, and light Is a bad thins for a
burglar.
Sond for our representative.
Rogue Rivor Electric Company.
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