SAFE AT HOME?

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 14

SAFE AT HOME?

DANGER OF POLISHED FLOORS AN EASY REMEDY Safe at home —how instinctively these words come to our lips . when we return from a long journey. But are we safe at home? Accident insurance companies say “no,” for their records show that they pay five times as many claims for injuries received in the home as. they do for injuries suffered during railway or steamship travel.

Well up among the causes of injuries received in the home is slipping on rugs. The combination of a polished floor and a slippery rug is a dangerous

one and a distinct hazard in any home unless it is guarded against. Various types of rug anchors have been developed to keep the rugs in place and prevent dangerous? falls, but by far the most efficient and practical is a specially constructed fabric which, when laid under rugs, will keep them firmly in place as well as preserve and protect them. This fabric has been heavily coated with a special compound that clings to a polished floor with a suction-like grip. When laid over this material, which may be purchased at the shops of advertisers on this page, will not slip, creep or wrinkle, even when being vacuum cleaned.

Of great interest to the housewife is the fact that it does this without injuring or marring the rug or floor in any way. Besides keeping the rug firmly in place, this material acts as a waterproof resilient lining which prevents foreign matter from reaching the rug from the floor and lessens the wear from treading feet.