WIRELESS MAIDS.
Wireless maids are the latest of late things in Paris, according to the New York American. George Franchette/ president of the French Society for the Study of Wireless, hits replaced servants in his home by—the Eiffel Tower. At 6 a.m. a wireless wave from the Tower sets ofl an alarm eloeok beside Franehette's bed. opens the windows and .mills hawk Die shutters, and starts an electric stove heating his morning cup of chocolate, which is automatically controlled so that it never boils over. Official time is given him by wireless controlled clocks in all rooms, doors are opened Itv buttons, the controlling force of which is waves from the Eiffel Tower, and every evening Monsieur Franchette gets the day’s news from a wireless receiver as he is seated at dinner. Next winter, he says, he is going to heat the house by wireless.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1399, 31 May 1923, Page 2
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