AN ELECTRIC HOUSE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 26 September 1891, Page 420

AN ELECTRIC HOUSE.

The most interesting portion of the World’s Fair at Chicago,, as far* as ladies are concerned, will be the electric house, which sounds as if it might almost be a practical illustration of how to manage an establishment without servants. It is to be a miniature house, worked entirely by electricity, which is to be the motive power for the bells, the lights, the doors, and the burglar alarms, to at once illuminate the house in case of attempted ingress. The rooms are warmed by electric radiators, and cooled by electric fans. But the most marvellous part is that relating to the cooking. It is to be conducted on an electric range in a kitchen atthe top of the house, and the dishes are to be lowered to the dining-room by an electric dumb waiter, and washed afterwards by an electric dish washer, in which a child can wash 10,000 dishes a day. The washing, ironing, and scrubbing of the floors and woodwork, and even the cleaning of the windows will be performed by electricity. Everything which in an ordinary house is relegated to the dusthole is also immediately destroyed by electricity. My only fear would be that, living in a house so laden, with electricity—for even the library contains little phonographs for sending verbal messages to friends—l should, one day, find myself so highly charged that I might be unconsciously executed, and, perhaps, spirited away by electricity before any of my friends could know anything about it.