A Widow's Dilemma

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 9, 13 September 1929, Page 25

A Widow's Dilemma

An Earnest Appeal J{VERY week our "Record" seems to ' have more letters suggesting that the company spend more money, but there is no "woman’s point of view" any more. A. suggestion how to save money should be welcome, especially from one more than satisfied with the service given already. Wouldn’t it be possible to pay off "Cathode," "Pentode," and all- the construction notes experts for just a week or two? I’m quite sure I’ve earned one for them if they aren’t tired themselves. If they are married, think how their wives would enjoy help with the garden, particularly in the spring! . This particular radio widow writing has almost every . conceivable thing which has appeared in the construction notes of your journal (from the very first) lying in and under her house. A big twenty feet living room is nearly full with exponential horns, cone speakers, other horn speakers, as well as the new dynamic cone speaker; all take room. So do wet B batteries when they are 180 volts. Once upon a time a plate rack ran round my living room wall. In the last four years it has become a shelf for every imaginable spare part, and where it isn’t taken up with valves, odd coils, chokes, ete., there are radio books of eyery kind obtainable. Until lately we've had to dine elsewhere. Your expert’s six-valyve set takes a fair amount of space on the table when spread out down to its smallest screw. Still, even if the table was bored while boring the panel it does work and work

oe we. ae ee Bm ES well, so perhaps he deserves a holiday for his own sake. There must be lots of wives like . myself who. would . like .a "woman’s page" and less construction. All the same, the "Radio Record" is eagerly looked for here, espécially for the "moans" about the concerts. It would be an impossibility for the Broadcasting Company to arrange even one concert ‘that would suit everybody in our immediate family, where some community of tastes can be expected; so how any sane pet'son expects them to please all the time is beyond me. It is a help to have the week’s programme ahead, too, as then we can make arrangements to suit visitors’ tastes as far as possible. Ours, we have hundreds in the course of a year, are usually well satisfied, and at least six sets have gone in lately through hearing a set here. The "Pied Piper’ is something like someone in this district who complains bitterly about the standard of the programmes. His gramophone records, presumably of his own choosing and taste, consist of "Horsey, keep your tail up," and the like. In conclusion, I do thank the "Reeord" for the help it, gives, but all the construction, with three baby girls to keep out of mischief and sitting up half the night with other radio fiends; is almost too much sometimes. For instance, at lunch time one is warned that there will be about seven in for supper at night, and bang goes all idea of an afternoon gardening with appetites like theirs ahead.-‘‘Radio Widow. sd