TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 37, 30 March 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Emergency Heater, To make an ordinary oil lamp into a heater in times of emergency, invert a large flower pot over the chimney. See that it does not touch the" glass anywhere, and support it well. It will throw off quite a good heat, Cheese Custard. Ingredients: jib. cheese, grated or shayed finely, a teacupful of breadcrumbs, one pint of milk, one egg. Well butter a pie-dish. Put a layer of breadcrumbs, then a layer of cheese, until the dish is nearly full, breaderumbs being on top. Add a little salt. Well beat the egg and add the milk. Then pour gently into dish until nearly full. Bake in a siow oven as you would a custard. Serve with mashed or chip potatoes. Hie is a very delicate and nourishing dish.

A Useful Night Lamp. | Into a four-ounce bottle pnt a piece of phosphorus the size of a pea. ‘Then fill the bottle to about a third of its capacity with olive oil which has been heated, not boiled, for fifteen minutes. Cork it well, and in the dark jt will he bright enough to see the time in the middle of the night. This lamp ought to glow continuously for six months, but should it become dim, uncock the bottle for a few minutes, and it will glow brightly again. Cooking in Thermos Flasks, A thermos flask (pint or quart size) is a handv and useful ‘‘fireless" cook¢r, in which almost any food that is cooked by boiling in water, stock, or milk, is cookable. Raw food put in the flask at night is hot and deliciously cooked in the morning. Put meat, fish, vegetables, and fruits (cut small) and cereals in flask, then add liquid for the cooking boiling and seal at ence, INo food cooks under three hours, but it keeps hot for twelve hours without overcooking or losing flavour,

"Modern Misfits.’ A "Reconciliation Bureau" is part of the work of the Salvation Army (says the ‘‘Morning Post’), Its business ‘is to mend the quarrels of husbands and wives, uncles and aunts, or, as the yearly report so aptly terms it, "of other such contentious individuals," The work of the first year can now be studied in detail, and an eighteenpage booklet, published recently, is edited by Mts, Booth. From these we learn that of 300 cases analysed by the Salvation Army during the first few months of the burean’s work, 69 were brought 10 a happy issue. In 171 cases people were advised and helped by employment or by being given financial aid, and in 22 cases legal or medical aid was found. Marriage as a ‘‘Release."’ Salvation Army officers have learnt many things from their inquiries into other people’s troubles. Here are some of the things they say: **Foo many boys and girls leave school without having obtained a rudimentary knowledge of the things that are vital to their future happiness." "Young people should know more about the elementary laws of the mind and spirit, discipline, sacrifice, and hygiene,"? "Many youths who contemplate marriage are actuated only by the desire to possess, while some young women regard matrimony as a release from the monotony and drudgery of factory, shop, or office life.’’ Unemployment and the housing shortage are responsible for many unhappy marriages, but Mrs. Booth also blames the ‘marked materialistic tendencies of thought which have a deteriorating effect upon family life." Lack of propet respect for parental authority and over self-assertion have made many marriages which have afterwards proved failures. Britain First Again.

Less than a year ago Mr. John L. Baird, the inventor of television, set up a receiving screen ‘n a Glasgow hotel and, over a telephone trunk line, displayed the antics of a London of-fice-boy. Recently New York cabled the news of successful television installation in four or five private houses. All this within a year! Where shall we be within ten years? In public entertainment, education and the like a revolution is coming which will transform the world. And once again it is Great Britain, with her young Glasgow engineer, that has made another mighty contribution to the welfare of humanity.

Education, at long last, will become a living thing, at least, in the humanities. Children will leave school knowing the Chinese better than neighbonrs in their own streets. They will have seen Canada and New Zealand for themselves. Agriculture they will have studied at first hand under ali conditions, They will have been on personally conducted tours over the great engineering works of the world. Yes, a fascinating game this to dip into the future. And then, reealling with pride that the genias of a Briton has provided the means, we may well express the sincere hope that the material which we provide shall be fully worthy of our nation’s greatness. At the least, television will make war more impossible and ridiculous than ever.--A. Corbett-Smith. Care of Linen Enthroidery. A great improvement on stareh for doing up linen is the following "steck"’ : Dissolve: one ounce of gum arabic in half a pint of warm water. For use, add one tablespoon of this solution to a quart of water. Nothing is easier than to spoil a good piece of embroidery by washing it carelessly. Every trace of soap must, of course, be rinsed out before the drying process is begun; and then, as it is most unwise to wring an embroidered article, it should be folded in a clean dry towel, and as much moisture as possible pressed out of it. The embroidery should then be pinned right side up over a piece of clean blotting paper on a beard or deal table; and if the pins arc many and stuck in firmly and the miateriai stretched as tightly as possible, the delighted embroideress will find waiting for her next dav a beantifullyv

crisp, clean piece of work which needs no ironing, and probably looking much finer than when the last stitches were being put into the embroidery. ‘The storage of linen is of importance. A cool, fresh room in a press from which daylight is rigidly excluded is the ideal storage for linen. Under these conditions it will retain its white coldéur, preserve its silky sheen and far oiitlive linen which is stored in a hot press or which is constantly exposed to daylight. MRS. R. THOMAS, 2YA. A Telling Retort. A certain American statesman, welt known for his ready wit and the tell. ing retort he always has for an jnterrupter, was on one occasion addressing a rather rowdy meeting when a turnip was thrown at him. It fell harmlessly on the platform, and the statesman, picking it up, showed it to the audience. "Good heavens!’ he exclaimed, "one of our opponents has lost his head!’ Irishwomen spend £1,000,000 annually on silk stockings,