SHAVINGS

Evening Star, Issue 20128, 19 March 1929, Page 2

SHAVINGS

Jn.it ms in the can l ill electric light, the HisL electric radiators quickly revealed (lie essential advantages ol electric heating. Electricity lias made lire and warmth a portahlo thing involving no Haines, smell, or dill. 'When electric radiators first appeared they were regarded as extravagant, because it was lound to he cheaper to keep a coal lire burning continuously than to run an electric radiator all the time, 'ill’s objection is to sonic extent still true, though modern electric tires arc more efficient and electricity is much cheaper. * * « • 1 1 i- nut a difiicuh matter to restore yellow :#d dis<-oloured piano keys. J.‘or general purposes a .solution ol loss ol nitric acid to lilor. ol water will do all that is required. The mixture should be applied with a piece ol clean, soil Ihmnel. using care to prevent it dripping between the key--. li tbo keys arc very yellow they shoukl he carcfully nibbed with lemon and then covered with prepared chalk and lelt I<> drv. Tins should then he brushed oil and the keys polished with a piece ol soli, drv material. An old silk handkerchief is excellent for this purpose. * Tlio oiiltuvc piilou* pcivliml on n imlsler which has reigned supreme at the head of our beds tor so long is rapidly being supplanted by a couple or more big. "square pillow s, Hat and luxurumslooking, such as tiic comfort-loving Frenchwoman Has preferred tor some time. The advantage of these pillows m that they give rest and support to the back and shoulders, as well as the head. Also, they lend themselves to the display of most attractive pillow slips hi the daytime, of eour-c. in the modern v.*;iv limy nic concenlcd in liailuMMim si ik ;i ml sntin cushion cover?, ano piled negligently on the l>cd. * « » « American husmess ami industrial buildings soon will be built almost entirely ol gins.® reinforced wil ly steel, in lhe epimon ol ’A illiani .h. Hailey, piotVssor of sociology at North-western loiivcrsitv. "The skyscraper of the future will he almost one huge window." sa vs Professor Hailey, “with glass Homs and glass ceilings. With the development of knowledge of the therapeutic value of the ultra-violet ray office ami factory lighting will underm, a radical change. W hen thousand-, of workers are gathered in poorlylighted office buildings eaeli day it is lithe wonder that their efficiency is unpaired and thcr deposit ions arc soured. P,ncL- and -tone buildings with narrow clils for windows are medieval and tilings j,a- the pa-i, ami the. whole emplmsis „f the future will be placed upon li's-hl and air. The American skyscraper will be one of the health wonders ol the world.”