TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 47, 8 June 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

The Latest Novelty. ;PHE latest novelty on British and . French receivers is a small, neatly-constructed clock, which can be let into the panel of the receiver in the same way as a meter, or the "peep holes" often ased to exisnre that valves are alight. With the correct time on the receiver, one can alwayr turn it on at the proper time to hear an item desired. In fact, the automatic switch clock, which turns the set on at any desired time, is also being adapted for panel mounting, and indications are that it is likely to become popular, Another interesting movelty which is being developed is @ time chatt clock, which enables the listener to compare his own time with that in any part of the world. Such | apparatus is iikely to be fairly popuJar in Europe and America, where there are matiy different stations working in different time zones, but at present Australicn listeners hear too, few foreign stations for a time chart of this sort to be a really useful adjunct to the receiver,

Britain Fiz: 5 Again. WVIRELESS installation work has : been developed more in Great Britain than iti any other country. Tiere, it is quite a common practice to install the receiver in one part of the house, generally somewhere ont of sight, and to provide a system of wiring, similar to wiring for electric bells, to connect it to several different rooms. ‘The wiring in each room is terminated in an unobtrusive wall plug, into which- the loudspeaker can readily be plugged. Very fine fittings have been made for this purpose. The latest adjunct to this imstallation system is remote -control switching apparatus, which enables the receiver in one room to be turned on or off from another room, saving the owner the trouble of leaving the room in which the loudspeaker is working. The use of this’ wiring system has many advantages, and it is surprising that it has not been used more widely in Australia. In a great many of the older houses the wiring installation provided for electric bells which are now seldom used can be employed for the distribution of broadcast music. Expensive Japan. THE monthly minimum expense for . a foreigner living alone averages about 200 dollars (£40), and this assumes that he either takes advantage of mess accoimmodavion or lives at a less pretentious residential hotel. A couple mainteiniug a hore must asSume a monthly expense of at Jeast 800 dollars (£60) for household expenses, with a minimum of 400 dollars (£60) for all neccssary expenses. {Add about. one-fourth more for each child under eight years.) From this it will be seen that a imartied couple with, way, three small children, requires an income of close on £1700 a year to live properly in Japan. More, of course, is required if they ar¢ not prepared to live ecsiomically. It is stated that it ccsts more for a foreigner to live in ‘loxyo than anywhere €i32 in the Far Fast, and tlic "Japan Advertiser,’ the leading Ametican puper in Japan, in commenting tecently on this assertio". added somewhat plaintively, "We know it costs more than anywhere in the United States.’ Fashionable Monsters. HE eraze for boudoir toys must haye its fashions, like everything else. One must be absolutely prehistoric to be thoroughly up to date. The spindle-legged pierruts and other dolls that have reigned over sett¢ees so long are giving way to small reprodnetions of such horrifie creatures as the ylesiosaurus ! It is hardly pleasant to picture an enthusiast’s room! Engenious Fashion, TIERE is no end tu the ingemuities of fashion. The latest novelty in Paris is the knee-bracelet made of woven gold or platinum and set with Fprecious stones. Perhaps these ornaments will later on be transferred to what the doctors call the upper extremities, and will then be known as wrist-garters. One might even. speak of gloves as hand-socks or hats as head-shoes, which would be another Pleasing novelty. A Poultry Roasting Secret, WHEN roasting a chicken or any : other bird place it in the baking dish breast down. ‘This will prevent the breast being dried up, which so ofien happens... This is unknown to many people,

Fair Hair Vogue. THE very latest hats are very small and follow the shape of the head closely. Black is used a good deal, es‘pecially in conjunction with a coat or costume in pale colours, "A striking en‘seinble seen recently on the terraces of ‘Monte Carlo was a pale rose-beige coat with upstanding collar of beige fur. Under this was worn an angora wool sweater of exactly the same tome and a pleated crepe de chine skirt; a small, tight-fitting black hat and black patent shoes completed the toilette and gave character to the ensemble, as well as showing up the golden hair and fair skin of the wearer Bionde women, by the way, are becoming increasingly popular, and many matnequins in the famous couturieres have fair hair, not always shingled now, but done into a small roll on the nape of the neck.

‘The New Cards. . if Be 80 new black playing cards, with white pips for diamonds, yellow for spades, red for hearts, and green for clubs, may be more picturesque ‘than the old-fashioned kind; but one can hear the indignant snort of the experienced player when he is asked if the new colour scheme is likely to be of any assistance to him in the way of preventing revokes, Of course, tnere are others; but the player who is capable of mistaking a spade for a club or a heart for a diamond is hardly to be reckoned as a player at all, There is a story of a bridge maniac who received a telegram while playing at his club, He excused himself, read it, and remarked, ‘By Jove, my poor old governor’s dead." Then, with a barely perceptible pause, ‘"I'wo hearts." "Well,"? remarked one of the other players in a shocked voice, "I think you might have had the decency to eall a black suit!"