Some Ideas for The Future are Revolutionary

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 587, 13 February 1929, Page 7

Some Ideas for The Future are Revolutionary

Telescopic Room is Greatest Prediction

The home of the future, however wild in its imaginings, has a fascination for some people, and much ink has been expended upon it, says an editorial in the “Decorators’ and Painters* Magazine.”

Rounded angles, the scrapping of picture-rails, carpets, and so forth, are now a matter of history in this class of literature; but the idea of telescopic rooms, by which their size and arrangement can lie varied at will, have received attention only about a couple of hundred times or so. Added to these now, in the very latest article, are aluminium shutters “which will open and shut in a perpendicular direction from the bottom”—-it is difficult to understand how they will both open and shut from the bottom — “operated by a ray of light or an electric switch in the ordinary way.” One is tempted to ask what ordinary way; but we will let that pass. All fireplaces will be removed, for instead of heating houses “we shall probably heat people” by means of electrict clothing, thus avoiding "the risks of going from the suffocating atmosphere of the centrally-heated house into the biting chill of a damp winter’s night.” How colour is to play a “much more Important part” than it does now in these houses of bare sliding aluminium telescopic w#dls, we do not quite see; but it has to be introduced, we suppose, owing to its “medicinal qualities.” Discoursing on the “art” side, with utility as its governing factor, the writer has recently seen a modern operating table "so very satisfying and well-balanced” that he had to make a drawing of it. It is possible that every house will contain a satisfying and well-balanced operating table when rooms are telescopic and subject to untimely bi-section by means of sliding shutters!

Raspberry Jam.—To every pound of fruit allow one pound of sugar, and, if possible, one-fourth of a pint of red currant juice. Put the raspberries into the preserving pan, and let them boil for an hour; stirring well, and skimming them. Then add the currant juice and the sugar, and boil threequarters of an hour, again skimming carefully.

Before cemented work may be safely painted over it must be coated to keep the alkali from injuring the oil paint, and for this purpose it is generally conceded that nothing is better as an insulator than a solution of sulphate of ziuc, in the ratio of 31b of zinc sulphate to a gallon of water.

Is there anything more nerve-racking than a creaky door? You need never have any in your home if you take a little precaution, Every now and then dip a feather into a little lubricating oil and touch up the hinges, of all doors.