Keeping Warm
|JOBBERNS: Well, Mr. Bowman, I think that we’d better make this talk a completely informal one-something like one of those fireside* chats of
your Mr. Roosevelt in America. BOWMAN: Though perhaps without the fireside-the White House has central heating you know. Incidentally, central heating is one of the great comforts of American life. Until I was instructed in the proper method of making coal fires within the rather constricted limits of my boarding house fireplace here in New Zealand, I spent many an
evening thinking about the bounties of central heating. By. the way, Dr. Jobberns, didn’t you find it rather convenient while in America to be able to go from the bedroom to the parlour without having to put on your overcoat? JOBBERNS: Yes. I remember the winter in Chicago-a warm day was about.10 degrees above zero and at 14 below it was just beginning to get a bit chilly. What I appreciated most was the warm bathroom-that’s America’s greatest single contribution to civilised living.-("Life in America and New Zealand,’ 3YA July 31).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 61, 23 August 1940, Page 6
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176Keeping Warm New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 61, 23 August 1940, Page 6
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