AN ILLUMINATED BOUQUET.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20289, 23 December 1927, Page 10

AN ILLUMINATED BOUQUET.

FLOWERS OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL. WORLD'S FIRST ELECTRICITY SUPPLY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON. November 10. A charming electrical bouquet made its appearance when the new clubhouse of the Electrical Association for Women at Kensington Court was opened by the president, Viscountess Astor, M.P. Lady Astor was handed a sheaf of water lilies made of mother of pearl, in which each flower was illuminated by a small bulb, .the fitting had to be connected with the plug in a "table before the flowers were illuminated. . •‘All the work done by the servants is undone by the sons,” was one of Lady •\stor’s savings. “ Every woman knows, she went'on. amid laughter, "that the most difficult thing in a house is a man Electric equipment can never get rid ot that even though it makes life easier in other respects. We women welcome anything that helps to lighten the burden of the home. Every woman who keeps house knows that it is the men who make it, untidy. Although we have got the vote we women li:ive a way to bofoio we "ot a positive square deal. Men see a red light when they find that things they iiavc called their own—like intelligence—may he given to women, too. Colonel R. Ik Crompton said that the electrical business in London would never have been started had it not been for his wife. “We switched on 41 years ago,’ he said." “and that was the first public supnlv in the world, 'the ladies were our first propaganidsts. and from the outset we got most useful assistance from them." We wme looked on as mad cranks to hi l avoided. People ki-pt on the other side of the road when Hiey saw ns. We mm through because electricity is a dean, simple science.” The new clubhouse, which contains a model electric kitchen, is on the site of Colonel Crompton's original .generating station.