LEAVES FROM DAILY LIFE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1923, Page 2

LEAVES FROM DAILY LIFE

A WOMAN'S DAY. (A Serial Day by Day.' (Continued). After tea comes ‘“the children's hour,” and then they have to be, bathed and put to bed. I-'or this purpose a really plentiful supply of hot water and a warm room are essential. To ensure the latter it is simply necessary to light the gas fire. In many households, however, especially where a mid-day dinner is taken, the kitchen tire is allowed to go out. or nearly so, during the afternoon. This results in the hot water system becoming cold, and at the time when really hot water is required for the children's baths very often none tail he procured.

The kitchen lire has to he stoked t:o. and even then a long wait is compulsory before the water can be raised to tbt- required temperature. The children are consequently late in being put to bed and often have to be deprived of their warm baths altogether. Ihe housewife is distressed My the irregularities in her nur-ing and is robbed of it portion of her evening, which in all probability she had intended to devote to her own recreation, away from the anxieties ol the household. Where there is a nursery a constant supply of really hot water is iiccessaiT ready tor use dav or uie.l'i and for this uni-pose nothing can i-.pial a Gas Water-Heater. It is quite simple in its m iion and is entirely independent ol the kiltb.n range. (Watch i'or continuation to-morrow.)