THE "NEW PERFECTION" STOVE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 25, 23 February 1909, Page 4

THE "NEW PERFECTION" STOVE.

5-y A writer whose words were considerfc*: ed worthy of being handed down in s,'*,., printed form to us in .this present ago once remarked: "Man is an animal who '- cooks his victual*." He might have added that man, as a, general rule, likes his victuals well cooked. To accomplish this thousands and thousands of people are daily sweltering over stoves that in weather such as we are now experiencing can easily be likened to furnaces. A great advance was made when gas became generally adopted for heating ■ and cooking purposes. Men of brains have long endeavored to provide a sub- I stitute for the gas stove in places | where gas is not, or even produce an improvement on it. It may be accepted as a basis ot thought that the man who gave us the "New Perfeotioa" kerosene . store was aiming at that improvement, r for he certainly aimed high—and hit. Saturday afternoon and evening, aud during yesterday, "demonstrations"— i ■-' th*t is the proper word nowadays— of •the value of the stoves was given on the , first'floor of Messrs. Okey, Soa and Arnold's warehouse, that firm having been entrusted with the agency. The principals are wise in their generation, and have engaged a first-class exponent of the baking art to introduce their wares. Miss Stewart's scones, tea-cakes and mittr loaves were delightfully baked to that orisp "golden brown" that cookerv experts tell us of, and that so many stride to obtain. To prove that there was no "fake" the numbers of people who attended were treated to a cup of tea, and samples ot the cooking The stove is an immense improvement on the "Perfection" stove, which, ra account of the odor ot burning kerosene, ■Was not exactly "peneotion." The asbestos ring that did duty in that stove has given way to an ordinary cotton wick and perforated metal film which produce complete combustion of the oil (with consequence absence of smoke), and, as we saw from the use of three stoves yesterday, absolutely pre- - "" vents smell. The oil-feed, flame-regula-tion, and cleaning are simplicity itself, „ and the method of ignition and use arc cleanliness itself. The ovens are port- '; able, so that the whole stove may be used for boiling ox broiling, or for baking and boiling. Another useful feature i is that the stove is very light, and could t. easily be placed in an outbuilding in summer weather. Fuel costs a halfpenny per hour per lamp, or a penny an 1 hour in the double stove, and the stoves themselves are offered at low rates. * They are meeting_ with a very rapid /. sale, having practically all the advant tages of the most modem gas-burning ',, supplies.