USES OF ELECTRICITY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 January 1928, Page 10

USES OF ELECTRICITY

THE WORLD'S FIRST SUPPLY INCIDENT OF -11 YEARS AGO LONDON, 16th Nov. A charming electrical bouquol made its appearance when the new clubhouse ;of the Electrical Association for AVonion al Kensington C'nurl was opened by the president, Viscounteta Aslor, M.I 1 . Lady Astor wfih handed a sheaf of waterlilies made of mother of pearl, in which each flower was illuminated by a small bulb. The fitting had lo be connected with 'the plug ( in a tabic before, the flowers were illuminated. "All the work done by the servants is undone by the sons." was one of Lady Astor's sayings?. "Every woman knows/' she went on, amid laughter, "that the most difficult thing in a house ii a man. Electric" equipment can never get rid of that, even though it makes life easier in other respects. We women welcome,anything thai helps lo lighten the burden of the home. Every woman who keeps house knows thai it is the men who make il untidy. Although we have got the vote we women have a long way lo go before we get a positive square deal. Men see a red light when they find that things they have called their own—like intelligence—may be given lo women loo." Colonel R. E. ■CYoniplon said that the electrical business in London would never have been started had it not been for his wife. "We switched on fortyone years ago," he said, "and that was the first public supply in the world. The ladies were ,our first propagandists, and from the outset we got most useful assistance from them. We were looked on as mad cranks to be avoided. People kept on the other side of the road when they saw us. We won through because electricity is a, clean, - simple science. The new clubhouse, which contains a model electric kitchen, is on the site of Colonel Crompton's original generating station.