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The House and Servant Problems Solved at ? Bv Anne Lewis Pierce, Director, Tribune Institute-_. One Fell Swoop Be Your Own Landlord, Buy Your Own Apartment and Have a Real Home With Outdoor Life GENERAL HOUSE WORKERS?24 HOURS A DAY WANTEI>-PosU!on? by an unlimited number of ?errants willing to do general housework, cleaning, washing and Ironing and fancy cooking Will amuse the children In their spare time and do light sewing Farlv broakfasts, afternoon tea. and after th? theater sappers a specialty Ex? cellent performers on -several musical Instruments?classical or jazz re? pertoire. No days or fining? out. Wages from one to four cents an hour ?o work, no pay. M ?l furnish their own board and room. Excellent refer? en?* furnished on r-fquest. Honesty and reliability guaranteed by leadin business men and The 1 ribune Institute. J "dQin? Apply to the Queensboro Corporation, Elmhurst, New* York (telephone Newto?n M6t>,or .?0 Last Forty-second Street (telephone, Murray llili 7057). or The Tribune Institute, 154 Nassau Street (Beekman 3000) for further information. '? ,ul farther information. //?^IKAZY?" Not at all. Simply! I we never recognize the \ V?4 blessings and possibilities that he nearest. This advertisement is not a flight ' of fancy; it can be translated into ?facts by any woman who "electri -, fies her home." It has actually been I materialized and can be seen by any , ? ?one who cares to visit the "Apart? ment Electric." a six-room suite in ? the Jackson Heights community of | garden apartment homes (apartment ownership plan), which has been: 'fitted out from kitchen to drawing idom?parlor, bedroom and bath? ! with the typical necessities and lux- : uries of an up-to-date electrical . home. This has been done that those who : can't believe a thing until they see it; (doubting Thomases, one and all) may have the facts brought out in ,,ihe advertisement visualized for them. A frog that sits in a rut and blinks would naturally bo sceptical about the stellar system. Don't be a frog mentally. Look out and up! And one way to do it is to take the Queensboro subway (Corona Line) at Forty-second Street, and in twen? ty-two minutes you will be at the Twenty-fifth Street subway station, Jackson Heights, and some one at the office, opposite the station, will show you about, Sunday or week? days (10 a. m. to G p. m.) and Men day evenings, 7:30 to 10. If you can see things through the inner eye come with us down this page of print, without moving from your easy chair, and see what an apartment looks like when the maid's name is "Electra." The Kitchen First "Come into the kitchen" first, for there is the heart of the matter. In a space 7 feet by 11 (a kitchen is no - - . i ? ' ?^?m ?.4// photos by nuits Brothers } TIERE is the Heart of tlie Home, the place where Health is Braved and the Foundations \ i " of Contentment and Hospitality are Laid. Room enough for a large electric stove, a j ?washing machine,a dishwasherand a refrigerator, all electrically driven but all within easy reach place to do a marathon?it should be no larger, and especially no wider, than is absolutely necessary, in or der to save steps) there is found a I large electric range, an electrical j washing machine that does its own wringing; an overhead dryer, both ? right by the window, where they should be; an enameled sink, an electric dishwasher, a tireless cook? er, and in the unseen end of the YXf ITH a four-ply outlet under the dining room table, wired directly through the floor, and. "" an ovenette on the buffet, the only worry is that the kitchen will not get a chant chance to show off properly India Gurry Plus Makes an Easy-to-Serve Supper With a Cosmopolitan Flavor By Marion Hatheway NOW that warm weather is at hand one naturally turns to a menu which has at most only a meat basis. Instead of a heavy meat course, a thick soup of white stock with rice, peppers and okra \ is most satisfying, especially if served with a French loaf which has ! been crisped in the oven and un salted butter. Follow this with a salad made from shredded cabbage, a few rings of green pepper and Bermuda onion which has been sliced and chilled in ice water. Add as a final touch a bit of cheese with crackers and black coffee, and even your tired business man will feel that he has had a real dinner of tempting variety. Why not try, al60, some of the dishes which are so widely used in (Testedand endorsed by The Tribune Institute) FR?ETBIAL IN YOUR OWN HOME of the Grand Prize, IVACt'JM CLEANER SOLO ON EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS Write, c-Ul or 'phone tareka Vacuum Cleaner Co. 31 WEST 43rd STREET Telephone: Vanderbilt 7498 Uention Tribune IREETOYWi FOR IODAYS THC WQ*L0S ?AMOVS Wa-i^* SeM The World* Standard Makes Vacuum Cleaners washing Machines ???ST 35* STREET warmer climates, where, as the Southerners claim, "We have to eat moro highly seasoned foods?our livers are torpid"? A chicken pepper-pot, a dish of chile con came, with a hot tamale, if followed by a green salad and a light dessert, make an agreeable change. Eut there is nothing that quite compares with a real India curry made after the fashion of the East, provided it be accompanied by all the relishes and side dishes which should appear with it. One hostess, an army woman who has lived in the Philippines, re-, gales her guests at Sunday night suppers with an alluring menu of "India curry?plus," as she laugh? ingly calls it. She learned the art of preparing it from an old Chinese cook, and to this fact she attributes | the great popularity of her Sunday night spreads. Her guests might deny such an allegation, but? any : one may put it to the test, for here I are the recipes necessary to prop ! erly prepare the various dishes. With the exception of the boiled ' rice, the fried bananas and the black coffee, the entire supper may ; be prepared in the morning or even I the day before. The amounts here ! given will serve four persons. MENU Carry of Veal Boiled Rice Fried Bananas Chutney Sauce Pearl Onions G rated Cocoanat Salted Nuts Pear Salad Roquefort Cheese Ginger Ale ? Gula Malacca with Strained Honey and Thin Cream Coffee Rice Wafers Boiled Rice There are several ways of boiling rice and they are all good, provided the rice comes to the table white and flaky and in separate grains. In the East there is but one method and that is to cook the rice, after it has been thoroughly washed, in a generous amount (twelve times as much water as rice) of violently boiling water, which has been salted. In fifteen to twenty minutes test a few grains and if they are absolutely soft when pressed be? tween thumb and finger the rice is sufficiently cooked. Pour into a colander, allowing the water to drain into a clean bowl. This water must not be discarded, jas it contains considerable nourish-; 1 ment. It may be used to dilute a I ! can of soup?r-any of the advertised \ concentrated brands?and the result- ' j ing soup will be mon? nutritive than j ? when diluted with hoi; water. Place the rice in the hot oven | with the door left open for about ! ten minutes to dry. Or draw cold water through it and steam, uncov? ered, until hot and dry. It should j then be piled lightly on the platter | and surround the curried veal. Use I a fork when arranging the rice ; around the veal?a spoon is far too likely to mash the grains. The I amount of rice required is one cup and the large, whole head Carolina rice is especially liked by many. Fried Bananas Peel four thick, large bananas, using the red ones if possible. Split j in half lengthwise, dust lightly with I powdered sugar and fry in oil or ] ?^UNSH?NE streams into the nursery to supply growing j ^ power for the home's best product, and electricity makes \ \ a wonderful playmate. Health and Happiness are the chil dreh's birthright butter substitute until a rich dark brown glaze covers them. Serve on a hot platter with the rice and curry. The relishes consist of pearl onions, which may be purchased in a bottle from any delicatessen shop, and Major Grey chutney, which will be found in the larger grocery stores carrying imported delicacies. This is the real mango chutney and is full of large, delicious "chunks" of mango and ginger and fruits. The grated cocoanut must be made from a fresh nut cracked open, peeled and grated a short while before serving. It is more moist I than most of that sold in packages, ! chough some quite moist brands are ; now available, and the work of grat j ing the fresh is no small matter. One pint of Jumbo peanuts, ; shelled, salted and then rolled with ! a wooden rolling pin so that they ! aro slightly crushed, must be in ; eluded. The relishes should be placed in \ the different compartments of a ? relish dish, but failing this they may | be served in small dishes and passed I at the same time on a small tray. A j little of each relish is placed on ; top of the curry and rice, each guest y ? j Does it look like this out of your back win* \ \ j dows? We wot not. And yet it might if '' \ you were willing to live half an hour fA *** from Forty-second Street AWE " i kitchen an electrical refrigerator I that is never empty and never leaks, and storage and broom closets. Any one who could feel unhappy cr burdened in this kitchen must have inherited a congenital grouch that nothing but another incarnation would cure. Under the window, by the way, is a "cold box" sunk in the wall, and an electric iron ia mod-1 estly hiding on the shelf under the : range. Clean heat from the range; dishes stacked in the dishwasher to be washed once a day and dried by evaporation, since such hot water can bo used by the washer; no ice? man coming and going to track up the linoleum-covered floor?these are some of the incidental blessings when housework is done by "pushing the button." Wo do not mean that there is no work to be done and that pushing ; the button does not call for intelli? gence. There must be brains and executive ability in housework when Machinery Revolutionized Industry and Will Do the Same for Home Problems if Given a Chance It becomes electrified, Just aft there ] must be in running a railroad?but the drudgery ?s taken out of it and you get much better results with only a fraction of the effort, and a comfortable, even luxurious, air surrounding it all. Think of some of the dark, steamy, hot, laborious kitchens you have known, and then of this one, and see if it is any wonder that every? one who could has escaped from the old kitchen into other walks of life. Perhaps we may even lure superior people back into the kitchen when a suitable environment has been evolved for them! ?A Maidless Hostess Presides Serenely Over an Electrified Table i WITH all this in the kitchen it! might seem that there would be j nothing left to put in the dining! room, but this is far from the fact. For informal meals, be they late ! or early, for luncheons with one's i women friends or the kiddies, the ! chafing dish, waffle iron, percolator and toaster go right on the table with its four-ply outlet underneath, so that one can have four appliances going at once. The coffee will be done with the toast and eggs, and no one need get up from the table to adjust cords or plugs, the special wiring necessary being through the floor. With a buffet on wheels rolled up to the table for a serving table, as the two or three storied tea wagons can be, and a "curate's de? light," one can serve quite an elab? orate menu with ease and gracious ness and give the meal all the in ; formality and charm of a picnic af? fair, plus the good hot food of the kitchen. For more serious cooking still there are hot plates and a kitchen stove with the ovenette on the buf | fet, and real baked foods may be ! pulled out from underneath this im | provised oven top without any magic at all. The lighting of these rooms is also a feature, as the indirect light employed, even though centered, is most agreeable, and is further sup- j plemented by lamps easily connected with the many convenient base board outlets provided. In this connection notice that even ! in the living room the side wall out lets make an electric samovar and ! toaster possible on the tea table, and ? the side lamps present no unsightly lengths of cord. The advantages of an up-to-date apartment wired to accommodate all sorts of electrical devices is very obvious. When building, rebuilding or buying or renting always make a point of this. Demand will create supply, and am? ple electric wiring and convenient outlets must be thought of when building, if the full possibilities of electrical conveniences are to be realized. Electrocuting Drudgery From washtub to electric piano, from refrigerator to portable heater, whether it be to get work dono or to promote pleasure?if you want to sew without pedaling, or clean quickly and thoroughly without dust or effort?you have the answer in a home electrically equipped. Wheth er you are sick or well, on work or pleasure bent, it is at hand to give you the help you need. If only our imaginations were not so overworked by the wonders of. these later years, we would realize that fairy tales have gone out of style only because real life is so much more wonderful than any Arabian Nights ever written. What are magic carpets to airplanes? or Aladdin's Lamps to these little buttons in the wall that we can press for any kind of service? Whether we have servants or have them not, this equipment means com? fort, content and well oiled domestic machinery. You can use it either to keep, servants happy or to get along without them. Even machinery and electricity must have some one to run them. But drudgery is electrocuted ' in a home wired and equipped as is this six-room apartment. Not all the rooms can be shown, but in bedroom and bath also the electric conveniences abound. Curl? ing iron*, electric fans, hair dryers, bedside lamps, radiant heaters, elec? tric pads, milk warmers?they are all there, and even if you can't have them all it is stimulating to the imagination to see them all gathered together, and each one of us can at least have a few of the electrical servants that she needs most. The eight-hour program for one's self or one's maid can certainly be comfortably carried out when ma? chinery and electrical power are called in to cut hours and effort. Most of us are "eye-minded"; we must see a thing before we really believe it, and so whether you can have the whole loaf in its perfection or not it is a liberal education to the inquiring, progressive housewife to see such an apartment?electrically equipped from every point of view. "Hitch your wagon to a star," which is Emersonian for getting out the Henry Ford, the Packard or the subway ticket, as the case may be? and go to it literally. You will find it an inspiration to see how far we ! have come on the Electric Way. I TI/ HETHER you want music or tea and toast, or.both, "Electra" will furnish them when j '" ever a guest drops in, and there will be no grumbling or ungraciousness as an unwelcome sauce. Electrified hospitality is always on tap and is painless serving himself. Ginger ale is a very suitable beverage to serve with curry and should bo poured into high, thin glasses with crushed ice. The salad may be varied to suit the taste. It_ should, however, be j a fruit salad with a French dress ing. Canned pears, the halves filled with Roquefort cheese, are very de? licious. Cnrry of Veal Cut into large cubes for stewing one pound of lean veal. Roll in flour and saut? in drippings in which one small onion has been minced. Fry until well browned on all sides, then sprinkle with a teaspoonful of salt, a heaping teaspoonful of curry powder, a few grains of cayenne pepper and pour over all three cups of boiling water. Cover closely and cook very slowly until tender, when the liquor should be thickened with a tablespoonful of flour which has been rubbed smooth in a little cold water. When ready to serve place the stewed meat in a mound in the middle of a large platter, pour over it the gravy and surround with boiled rice. Gula Malacca This dessert, which is found in China and in the Philippines, is made from sago, the pith of a na? tive tree. It is usually served with a syrup made from the milk of the unripe cocoanut, but as this is not cbtainable strained honey and thin cream will give the desired effect. One-half cupful of minute tapioca, one-half cupful of sugar and three cupfuls of boiling water are placed in a saucepan and allowed to cook until clear. Add a sa?tspoonful of salt and the grated rind and juice of a large lemon. Pour into indi? vidual dishes and chill. A tablespoonful of strained honey and the same quantity of thin cream , may be pjaced/on top at the time of serving. Or a sugar syrup, using the milk of the ripe cocoanut, may be used, though it is not very rich. Black coffee and rice wafers com? plete the supper. 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