THE ELECTRIC HOME JOURNAL

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 34, 7 March 1930, Page 22

THE ELECTRIC HOME JOURNAL

NTERESTING demonstra- | tions of electrical appliances are carried out week by week at different addresses in the eapital city. Residents should certainly make ‘a’ point of attending at least some of them,..while visitors will find any time they are able to devote to one or more, very profitably spent. One enterprising firm has conceived and carried out the idea of installing a model electrically equipped kitchen, which is always on view. Demonstrations are invariably given on Friday evenings of each week, and can be arringed for at other times, with or without an appointment. The visitor is shown into a .delightful room, where the decorations, woodwork, floor-covering, curtains, ete, are all carried out in a refreshing scheme of dark cream and clear blue. It is a kitchen in which any woman would love to work. Immediately under one of the large windows stands a table, or what is really in appearance more like a flattopped desk, the top of which is made of a beautifully cool, unbreakable and pasily-cleaned substance (ideal for pastry-making) composed of marble ehips in = a~- foundation of smooth’ vement. Immediately on the left-hand. side 4s the electric range, ideally situated with regard to the work-table; and close to it is the Kelvinator, a handy storage for all perishable foods. On the right-hand at right angles runs the sink. At the side of this sink, where one would normally expect to find the ordinary draining board, is fitted a detachable garbage-tin, into which the cook can conveniently place all refuse and waste matter without moving a step from the table; and also an electric dish-washer, a veritable realisation of the dreams of many of us. , The sink itself deserves special mention, being deep, roomy, of a convenient height and fitted with chromiumplated, non-tarnishable taps, and ‘an ingenious arrangement for mixing hot and cold water, regulating the flow of either at will. Next to the sink stands the kitchen eabinet, the upper part enclosed behind

glass panelled sliding doors. One door of the cupboard beneath opens to disclose the washing-machine, neatly tucked away out of sight when not in use. When required, it is easily run out on its smoothly-running castors the few feet necessary to bring it into working position at the sink. The lower portion of the cabinet also contains a division for soiled linen (which ean be made to open on the other side also, say into a passage or bathroom, for conveniently depositing the linen), and a drawer for soap, blue, ete. Adjoining is a spacious linen-cupboard, aired by the electric water-heater overhead. Against the next wall stands what appears to be a neat-looking bureau in the. same colour scheme, the flap of which lets down, making a convenient ironing-table and revealing the actual ironing machine. A stool provides a seat, and ironing .can thus be accomplished. in a comfortable sitting position. The machine itself works autogoods, is fitted, with an extension arm for the purpose of supporting lengthy articles, such as table cloths, sheets, ete., and a small red lamp which indicates by its glow that the power is on. This model kitchen is emphatically a sight to be seen. At another address, too, on Friday afternoons, most interesting cooking demonstrations are given on electric ranges of all shapes and sizes, from the large cabinet models to the small ranges which can be operated from the ordinary heating-point. Here, also, is another most efficient washingup machine. Not only is there much tobe learnt here of the actual use of electric ranges, but many useful cookery hints and recipes are obtainable, and the ease, grace and skill with which the lady demonstrator cooks, explains, and "clears as she goes" is alone worth going to see. At this showroom, too, are to be seen other washing-machines and the latest designs in lighting fittings for every purpose. ‘ Demonstrations of all makes of wash-ing-machines are carried out almost daily at the different suppliers’ showrooms, and are an unfailing source of

interest. So marvellously near perfection stage have these machines become, with their ease, speed and cleanliness of operation-many,.of them with special features of their own-that it is really only by attending these demonstrations that one is enabled to make a final choice. Electric vacuum cleaners, too, of all makes and sizes, can be seen in operation, and the use of all the various attachments displayed. Indeed, it would seem that we are rapidly approaching the millennium of the housewife’s dream-happily a dream that practically any woman can turn into reality, if she:so wills.