“Lovely!” exclaimed Lottie, to whom a “current” meant little, but who wanted to seem interested.
“That is to provide for the various kinds of cooking,” Jack said, jokingly. “Now eggs are weak, they cook by storage; but a Welsh rabbit is done by the dynamo.”
“It means something else,” Captain Cora remarked, “namely, if we have company for supper, and the storage current gives out, we will not have to make it a progressive meal, extending into the next day. The course can be continued from the extra current.”
“For the love of Malachi!” exclaimed Walter. “What’s this?”
“Our boiler,” said Bess, who knew something about the boat’s fitting up. “We have that for dishwater.”
“Dishwater!” repeated Ed. “You’ve got this down to domestic science all right. That rubber hose runs off the hot water from the cylinder jacket, and——”
“Oh, never!” cried Jack. “They will be making tea with it.”
“Isn’t it salty?” innocently asked Marita.
“Likely,” said Belle, for the girls had all taken an interest in the housework-made-easy-plan, and had arranged to use the boiling water as it came from the motor after cooling the cylinder. “But it won’t hurt dishes.”
“Now I call that neat,” commented Ed, “and to think that mere girls should have thought of it.”