AVERY LIBRARY 
 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 
 
ELECTRICITY IN THE HOME MEANS ECON- 
 OMY, COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE 
 
 The House Without 
 a Kitchen Chimney 
 
 A house without a kitchen chimney may 
 not be within your grasp or may not be desired 
 by you at the present time, but a home containing 
 a reasonable number of modern conveniences is a 
 necessity. 
 
 There is no more reason why you should put 
 up with discomfort and positive lack of ordinary 
 necessities in your own home than there is for you 
 to tolerate poor service and out-of-date methods 
 of illumination in a modern hotel. 
 
 The private residence which does not utilize 
 Electricity in some shape or form is as antiquated 
 as a hotel of the period of 1860. 
 
 The old-fashioned housekeeper would not have 
 believed you if told that a house without a kitchen 
 chimney was a possibility—that hot water with~ 
 out a boiler was simply a matter of turning a 
 switch—that laundry work required no stove for 
 heating irons—or that lamps required no oil ; and 
 
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BURGLARS AVOID ELECTRICALLY 
 LIGHTED HOUSES. WOULD YOU 
 LIKE TO KNOW THE REASON? 
 
 vet; that is what Electricity has done for the 
 housekeeper of to-day. 
 
 The illustration on the middle pages of this 
 booklet is a reproduction of some photographs 
 taken of a house which does not contain a kitchen 
 chimney. There are, 
 
 to-day, quite a num-~ 
 
 ber of these houses 
 
 in various places in 
 
 this country, and 
 
 these houses are not 
 the homes of the 
 rich or the homes of 
 the faddist. We 
 have reached the 
 point where the use 
 
 of Electrical ap- 
 
 paratus and Electric 
 Light 1s no longer the 
 exclusive privilege of the wealthy. 
 
 The rates named for the use of Electricity 
 in residences in Philadelphia are lower than any 
 cities of the first class in this country, and in 
 
 Bathroom Conveniences 
 
AN ELECTRIC HEATING PAD IS 
 NEVER TOO HOT NOR TOO COLD. 
 SINCE LY DURING THE SWITCH 
 
 addition to that fact, the liberal user of Electric 
 Light in residences receives a rate which is lower, 
 lamp for lamp, than any other modern illuminant. 
 
 Now-a-days, housekeeping really is a busi- 
 ness—quite as exacting and difficult for the 
 housewives as ‘“money~grubbing ” is for the men ; 
 and if there is one function more than another 
 which Electricity can be made to serve, it 1s 
 that of making housekeeping simple and easy and 
 
 economical. Hundreds of two-story houses in 
 West Philadelphia are using Electricity in some 
 of its many forms. This fact, alone, should be 
 conclusive proof of its economy. 
 
 Many of the little Electrical helps and practi~ 
 cal conveniences to which we call attention else- 
 where in this booklet have become necessities in 
 thousands of Philadelphia homes. They have 
 done more to simplify household work, to econo- 
 mize labor and clarify the servant problem than 
 all the theories and advice to housekeepers that 
 have ever been presented. 
 
 We could tell you at length of the advantages 
 of the use of Electric Light from a sanative stand-~ 
 
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FOR THAT HUNGRY FEELING 
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 point—and so on; but we would like to tell you 
 those things verbally. There is just this to 
 remember about the cost: at 10 cents per kilowatt 
 hour, Electric Light is on a par with gas at $1.00 
 per thousand feet, and the liberal user of Elec- 
 tricity, as stated 
 before, obtains a 
 discount which 
 brings his rate for 
 Electric Light 
 below that which 
 
 he pays for gas. 
 
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 Electric 
 Kitchenette 
 
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 Electrical Helps 
 to Housekeeping 
 
 The trouble with the average person is that he 
 or she thinks the uses of Electricity begin and end 
 with its two most useful forms—Electric Light and 
 Electric Power. 
 
 We call your attention to the following table, 
 which has been compiled with a view of showing, 
 in a small way, how extensive the use of Elec- 
 tricity can be made, and also to demonstrate how 
 very inexpensive Electrical apparatus is to operate: 
 
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 Chatinge Dish « s206 is 23's 20 minutes 2% cts. 
 Pint Baby Milk Warmer and 
 Food Heater es: vas 4 6 F Y ct. 
 Quart Food Heater. .... 8 - yes 
 Coffee Percolator. ..... 20S Lae 
 Stove,6-inch. . . 2... .. 15. 7" 1% cts. 
 Stove.8-inch." ¢ .. i.) 6 56.. 15 Sas p Ae 
 Broiler: 9)x-127inches =<. . « 15> 7-* Stes 
 Curling Iron Heater. . . . . | Ee ead 3a ct. 
 Wteating Padme sso. 5 ohio = per hour i 
 Pressing Irons, 3 to 6 lbs. . . 30 minutes 1% to 2% cts. 
 Frying Pan (7 inches dvametes) 30 2% cts. 
 iWattletironss)ca.ive sto Po 12 Sy It ct; 
 
 iiea Pobre wae ee ok 20 1% cts 
 GlieeP otto ecw est tees 2 Ora 1 et 
 Soldering Iron, 2 lbs. up . . .30 =“ | A” ae 
 Doctor's Sterilizer ..... 30eaa 5 cts. 
 
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 WATER PRESSURE IN YOUR 
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 Dentist’s Sterilizer . .... 30 minutes 134 cts. 
 Bathroom Radiator ....30 “ eon 
 Spray. Coffee Pot. 2-. a. 20) aS 134“ 
 Shaving Cup, 12 shaves .. . Lose ct, 
 Luminous Radiators ....30 “ 434 cts. 
 Vacuum Cleaners . .- . .  .~ per hour F hachik 
 Vibrators 22. o.%0) ace = . . . 15 minutes XK ct. 
 Hair Dryers . . Sete. LD = 2% cts. 
 Washing Machine <3» per.tonr Os 
 Bread *Foaster i> 9.. 53s on fake 2 minutes Y% ct. 
 Sewing Machine Motor . . . per hour | ee: 
 Portable Fans .. . Ac hag a % to % et. 
 Ventilators = eget er ea 1% cts. 
 Water Sterilizers. . . ... Pat SE % to % ct. 
 Ozone Air Generator ....“% “ Mao 
 Floor Cleaner and Polisher . . “ “ 2 cts. 
 
 NOTES 
 
 @ We offer to our light and power customers a free trial 
 of practically all the above-named Electrical household 
 devices. Of course, this is done with the expectation of 
 an eventual sale, but there is no obligation to purchase, and 
 the free trial has no “string tied to it.” 
 
 @ An Electric Fan, with a little care and attention now 
 and then, will last a lifetime. A portable fan may be used 
 in any part of your home. It may be carried from one 
 location to another, and used wherever there happens to be 
 a lamp socket. 
 
 @ If you introduce Electric Light into your home, after 
 you have purchased the first set of lamps, there is no 
 further cost on account of lamps becoming worn out. We 
 » renew all standard lamps for our customers free of charge. 
 
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 The Philadelphia Electric Company 
 
 ‘Tenth and Chestnut Stress 
 
 Philadelphia