The vogue of the electric stove is due to the convenience and sureness with which the cooking is done, the control which may be exercised and the positiveness of results. Furthermore, the cleanliness, lack of odors and gases, and the easy installation and convenience of placing are other important reasons why the electric stove has come to stay, if electric companies co-operate with the stove companies to give a cooking rate. Its vogue, too, is largely due from the fact that in the maidless home housekeepers find electricity simpler, cooler and cleaner, if more expensive and not quite as rapid as gas. POINTS ABOUT THE STOVES As with the gas and wood stove, the main principles must apply in picking them out, with but few additions and omissions. The electric stove is not bothered with its own deterioration by the combustion inside it of oils, woods, coals, cokes, etc., but has, of course, to be well wired, rust protected and insulated against mishap and fire. Accidents are contingent on anything that uses any fuel. With electric stoves it is unnecessary to have large or small storage systems, which makes electricity a convenient fuel for the small “rabbit hutches,” in which the wealthiest and poorest are forced to live in these days of homelessness. [Illustration: _Courtesy of Estate Stove Co._ THREE LITTLE FINGERS FIT IN THREE LITTLE HOLES AND THE CONNECTION IS MADE] [Illustration: _Courtesy of Bramhall Deane Co._ HERE THE STOVE LID IS SET ON A LITTLE ROUND PLATFORM ALREADY ATTACHED AND EASILY DISENGAGED ELECTRIC RANGE] Then again, if you employ electricity, whether it is more costly or not, you do not have to put in so strenuous a flue system when building a house, but just a hood over the stove as a vent to carry off cooking odors and a special wiring system. You do away, too, with the draughts necessary for coal or wood types and all the contingent engineering niceties, which harass and wear you if they are not perfection. The body of the stove should be built of non-rusting iron. Armco rust-resisting iron is often used in the best grades of stoves. It is free from impurities which invite corrosion and rust and has proved a valuable material out of which to make a good stove body. On some stoves the tops are made of gray iron castings which, with the black body and its polished iron trimmings, make a very stately and harmonious article without sacrificing anything of practical utility. The top of any stove is the place upon which are placed the utensils for frying, boiling, etc. This is true whether the fuel be coal, gas, electricity or what-not.