NOT A FAIRY TALE

Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 2

NOT A FAIRY TALE

FACTS ABOUT THE HOf,lE DEMONSTRATIONS BY TRADE This is not a fairy story, but a few facts concerning women, and their homes, though some of the happenings recorded may sound very extraordinary. Everyone nowadays realises that there arc available many devices_ which perform really wonderful feats hitherto accomplished by hand, but lew appreciate the full extent to which these appliances can be utilised with the aid of electrical power. Electric light, which at one time was considered almost magical, is now accepted as an essential part of the homo itself. Electric cooking, which a few years ago was considered as a luxury, has become a servant in the working man’s homo. And so it is with all the many electric domestic" labor-saving appliances now available for the woman in the homo. The electric toaster, iron, kettle, and sewing machine all perform wonderful service if only wo take the trouble to investigate their ipowers. Seeing is believing. Hence the local electricity tradespeople throughout this little isle of ours arrange from time to time practical demonstrations at their showrooms for the purpose of showing women, and men as well, what can really bo accomplished in the home with the aid of electricity, and how much time and labor it will save—and money. We often hear iff said that our American cousins are far ahead of us in electrifying their homos, and we may even sometinigs envy the American housewife, with her retinue of electrical gadgets doing this and that about the house, but i£ we reflect for a moment wo shall find that all these amenities are ours if w© just “switch on.” Here are a few things that electricity will do in the homo, as revealed at the Electrical and Industrial Exposition held in New York a few weeks ago• Toasters that turned the toast, electric irons tjmt turned themselves off When they got too hot, clocks that wound thcmselyes, doorbells that rang when the visitor crossed the threshold, cook stoves that turned themselves on when it-is. time to get dinner and off again when dinner was conked, an appliance that turned off thq heat when the three-minute eggs was done. After breakfast the housewife in the electrical home puts the dishes in an electric sink, where they were completely washed and dried without being touched. She then took a collapsible washing machine out of a drawer, put it together, and inserted the clothes. They were washed, rinsed, and wrung out. transferred to an electric dryer, and in a short time the clothes were dry ready for electric irone.rs. Despite the title of this article, there are a few who may still regard the above narration as emanating from fairyland. Inquiries wall show otherwise.