HOT AND COLD

Evening Star, Issue 19941, 10 August 1928, Page 2

HOT AND COLD

It has been said that there is nothing: in the round of household activities that cannot he better done by electricity. We have examined some of its application and seen how immeasurably superior are electric cooking, electric cleaning, and electric heating over the former-day appliances! Blowing hot and cold is supposed to be the index of instability: m the realm of electricity it is the sign of universality. To explain:— At present it is cold and damp, and wintry. You utilise your domestic power supply solely to give you heat and cheer. In sis months’ time your radiators, your electric fires, your patent bed warmers will bo put away. Your switches and plugs have given you warmth. You will shortly require from them balmy coolness. And so you attach whirling fans, to stir the humid atmosphere. Out in tho kitchen, too, it is very hot, not on account of the electric range, but of a stifling summer. But tho lady of the house is not worrying about the meat, or the butter, fruit, or vegetables. A thoughtful husband had installed an electric refrigerator. His wife would not on any account go back to the dreary “ ice chest.” Massive and ugly, it occupied too much space, and was at best a clumsy contrivance. On the contrary, her electric refrigerator is pleasing in appearnce, takes up less room, and is in evey way more satisfactory. All tho best homes are using tho new system of summer cooling.