How To Use Gas

1. Have the article ready and on the burner before the gas is lighted.

2. Never turn the gas so high that the red flame shows that means imperfect combustion.

3. As soon as the liquid begins to boil turn the gas down until there is just enough heat to keep it boiling.

4. Use the simmering jet whenever possible. It sup-plies sufficient heat to keep a large kettle of water boiling.

5. In most baking, turn out one oven burner or lower th after the first fifteen minutes.

6. A small oven set on top of the stove over one burner, r baking small quantities, will reduce the gas bill. In a st of baking a pan of muffins, 4 cubic feet of gas were msumed with a small portable oven against 12 cubic feet the large oven.

Rates Of Consumption Of Gas

The following figures are the results given by careful sts made by Miss Bertha M. Terrill:

Top Burners. Single burner, full, consumes 1 ft. in 4 to 5 m., or 12 to 15 ft. per hour. Single burner, just boiling, consumes 1 ft. in 15 to 19 m., or 3 to

4 ft. per hour. Single burner, simmering height, consumes 1 ft. in 29 m., or about 2 ft. per hour. Double burner, full, consumes 1 ft. in 2 m., or 30 ft. per hour.

Oven Burners. Two burners, full, consume 1 ft. in 1 m., or 60 ft. per hour. One burner, full, consumes 1 ft. in 2 m., or 30 ft. per hour. One burner, half on, consumes 1 ft. in 3 m., or 20 ft. per hour.

Electricity

Electricity is the ideal source of heat for cooking, but most places is too expensive for the average home use. is absolutely without dirt, can be controlled perfectly, id can be used in any part of the house where the con-ection with the electric wires may be made. Recently electric stoves have been greatly improved and ssened in price, and there are now on the market "electric eless cookers," which use little current. With electricity 4 cents a Kw. they are said to cook a meal at less expense an with gas at $1.00 per 1,000 cu. ft.

At the present time electric toasters, heating' plate chafing dishes, and coffee percolators are largely used dining rooms where attachments can be made with t electric current. These are very convenient and if use carefully are not expensive.

Gasoline

Accidents arising from the misuse of gasoline has created a prejudice against it as a fuel, but if used with care and judgment, it can well replace coal and wood the warm, if not in the cold weather. When open to tl air gasoline is constantly giving off a highly inflammable and explosive gas so that it should never be used in a room where there is a fire or an open flame.

Coal Oil

Kerosene of coal oil is much in use as a hot weather substitute for coal and wood. The objections to its use are the odor, soot and grease. If the stoves are ke thoroughly clean these objections are minimized. A cloth wet with gasoline will take off the grease more quickly and effectually than anything else.