Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — Clock for the Kitchen. [ARTICLE]

Clock for the Kitchen.

There Is perhaps no more annoying task for the housewife than the boiling of eggs, especially where the family Is numerous, for each individual member has his ocvn taste in the way he wants them boiled. The regular kitchen clock does not offer practical help, since the minute hands are difficult to watch and time glasses are often very unreliable. It was left for a German genius—a Berlin watchmaker named Damm—to solve the problem. He has constructed a clock which can be set in motion by touching a spring the moment tlie eggs are put in boiling water. When the baud points to the mark “soft” on the dial the egg clock sounds a brief alarm, The eggs that are wanted medium are taken out when the hand points to the next mark, when a longer alarm is heard. After the hand has turned to the word “hard” the clock continues to sound the alarm until the spring is pushed iu. This most practical of kitchen apparatus will be gladly welcomed by housewives and cooks, who heretofore have been compelled to remain in close proximity to the vessel containing the boiled eggs, and who in future will be notified by the handy instrument when the eggs are ready for the table.—Philadelphia Record.