Excerpt from The Other Way: Respectfully Dedicated to All Good Housewives
Preface; The Spoiler; The Old and the New Way; In Plague Time; Burners and Valves - Their Use and Abuse; Black Ivory; Heating by Gas; Mahommet versus Vishnu; Instantaneous Heaters; The Power of Luchnmee; Broilers; Some "Other Ways"; An Artistic Innovation; 'Awkins at 'Ome; Table of Comparison between Cost of Cooking by Coal and Gas; Table of Comparison of PerCentages in Loss After Cooking; The Passing of a Landmark; Wrinkles; How to Read the Statement of your Gas Meter; Wrinkles; Hanuman's Servants; "Don't"; In the Land of the Lamas; Wrinkles; Dainty Dishes; A Plot that Failed
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