For ¥. 720 a month you could Moodlight your house with lights of 100 watts, but whatever you phid you would get no current during the Jday. Under the simple system oper-fated by our local company the cur rent is switched on at dark and off Jat dawn. "Most of the villagers content themselves with one, at the most two, lights of it waste each, and the tariff is so computed as to show (presumably) satisfactory margin fof profit to the company, on the assumption that every light. is kept burning continuously throughout the night. "Our villagers know this, and take care to see that they get their money's worth by the simple expedient of never" turning out their Tights at all Electricity, by the way, is one of the very few necessaries that haven't yone up in price during the last {twelve months. Flour, butter, [coal and tobacco, to select at random, fare now anything from 20 to 30 per cent. dearer than a year ago. Char-numerable gadgets. Our cooking is sil done over one or more charcoal stoves, of the kind associated by the ignorant with the preparation of sukiyaki alone. Actually with the aid of a small portable oven to sit securely on the stove there is no rreflnement of cookery that cannot be practised, with results no whit me ferior to those you might get from the most elaborately equipped clectrical range.
Naturally the technique differs. The sort of directions you find in the more profusely-illustrated and expensive cookery books is valueless to the artist of the charcoal stove and oven. This kind of thing, for instance, "Bring to 263° and. gradually
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