SEW IDEAS IN SPACE SAVING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 13 (Supplement)

SEW IDEAS IN SPACE SAVING

Home-building experts have invented recently a new scheme for furnishing a one-room flat that will lighten the hearts of many bachelor women. It is an idea of solving the “short-age-of-space in-large-cities ” problem that has come from the United States. In a one-room flat the bed is built inside a panel of the wall. A dressingroom and bathroom are artistically partitioned off from one side of the room, and 0:1 the other is a narrow but efficient ly furnished kitchen. ■ During the d*y the bed is complexly hidden by a decorative panel. When the occupant or the flat is ready to sleep,, all she has to do is to turn a bundle, and down comes the bed. It is ;-t.r I :•» be particularly useful for those who wish to live within the heart of a city and cannot afford to pay the rent of a flat with two v* three Spare is so skilfully utilised that O’.’cu the electric lire is b jit within the wall. Women inte.CcLu'i in housework will be phased to hear that there are some oxccKent labour-taviag devices biitg flttd uuturistitaliy inside new houses. One of these i.= a stainless steei lined fink, which is always clean and shines better than silver Near the stainless sink is a washingup machine that will please every woman who sees it. ft is too large, however, to be ot practical use in the private heme, for it washes IS.OOG pieces of china and glass an hour. But there are smaller inexpensive machines that ran be fitted in the kitchen of a little One o the most fascinating new cupboards is of pale blue and grey, of ccllulesed limber, an ornament to any kitchen. They arc doing clever things with rubber nowadays. They have almost invented an alLrubber bathroom—rubber panelling, rubber accessories for walls, a rubber-edged hot-water can,

a non-slip rubber mat. a rubber stool 1 for use inside the bath, rubber shaving j brus h e s, toothbrushes, scrubbing- 1 brushes . . . the army of lubber articles in the bathroom is cndic.ss. | I Dr. Amr • Besant celebrated her SGth i I birthday on October 1. It, was ccle- | brated by millions, not only in India, • • but all over the world, and during the 1 of .! mlian | I history her great contribution to all < I the 1.: >•. ci;ent> 1 -ligions, spiritual, so- I Icin’ and political, cannot but be re- I I called. .She is one of the world’s great | rd in public • , life is one on which every woman * ico’.i’d pride herself. Dr. Besant played | a very active and prominent, part in i • the movement for securing political •'rights for women in India, and for bet jtering their lot. She has made full use jof her great opportunities and influ- ‘ ■. Ivanec ; th© cause of Indian women. ; Post.iic. i:. (• rmanv who are en 1 itiiisir ! wit’; money deliveries are to I I be provided with revolvers. 1 Sinks was making a hopless first at- : tempt ar golf, and to cover hir: embari rassment ho remarked, to the caddy, , isn’t it?” |‘ Sometimes it is. sir,” retorted the boy. “but it isn’t meant to be.” ODDS AGAINST HIM. Tin- much-sought-after bachelor was seated between two dear old ladies at the wedding breakfast. “Do you kn.iw. ” he said, making the conversation. “1 think single men are much worse off than married men.” | His neighbours turned on him eagerly. “Do you think so?” asked one of them. “1 most certainly do, replied the bachelor. “You see, the married man fears only one woman , while the single man fears them all.’ l