Electricity Saves

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 39, 11 April 1930, Page 26

Electricity Saves

FULEcCTRIC service is now recognise not as a luxury, but as an indispensable and inexpensive necessity in home, business and factory. Where should we be without it? Because its service:is the best with regard to safety, convenience, speed and economy, its work is daily spreading. As it moves further into the country, the farmer and his wife are daily realising the value and economy of electrified jJabour. By enlisting its aid, they can now enjoy the same advantages as do other occupations, since numerous aspects of their really burdensome toil have been reduced to the pulling of a switch or the pressing of a lever. Through the great gift of electric service comes the greater gift of inereased leisure, and from more leisure, widening opportunities for higher standards of living, self-improvement, eultural and social advancement, For many years past, most housewives have deplored the scarcity and the expense of adequate help in the home; but few, even now, realise how cheap electricity is. The average five-roomed home can be completely cleaned with a vacuum cleaner in about two hours at a cost for electric power of about the same number of pence. The same work cannot be accomplished with broom, dustpan, duster, etc., in four times the number of hours. An electric washing machine will in two hours do more than a woman can do by hand in a whole day, and moreover, leave little

or no cleaning-up to do. An electric dish-washing machine will within fifteen minutes wash, sterilise, rinse and dry the dishes after a meal that norMally requires rather more than an

en hour for a woman to accomplish, and that without the attendant worry of dirty tea cloths to be afterwards washed; the electric iron makes play of the ironing after the fear of the Monday’s washing has been removed by the elec-. tric washing-machine. To come into the realm of the kitchen (one of which the real woman at the back of her heart really enjoys, when not too hard-pressed), the electric range enables the lady of the house to enjoy her sojourn there, to leave it while the cooking goes on unattended,

or even more than that, to place her eooking on the range in the morning. and go out for the day, or pursue other avocations. If we consider what electricity will do in saving household labour, admitted the hardest and the most continuous, we cannot help but realise that it is cheaper than the cost of the food of one servant alone. Wlectricity is the only servant that pays to use to a steadily greater extent, especially in the homie,