"Like a Bally Surgery"

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 50, 27 June 1930, Page 34

"Like a Bally Surgery"

The Modern Kitchen "TT takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house | t? make it home," an American poet Says. Just what do people mean and want when they speak of Home? An old-time plumber was recently taken into a new electric kitchen and | asked what he thought of it, with its array of shining appliances, its polish, and its buttons. "Wot do I think of it? Why, it don’t look right ter me," said the plumber. "Give me a kitchen wot looks like a kitchen. This looks like a bally surgery." What a tribute to the appearatic and cleanliness of the electrically-rur home! Add to those advantages the cheapness, the healthfulness, the saving in time and labour, and what can compare with it? Too many people fail to reap the fuil benefit by going about the job in a piecemeal fashion. First, they are content with lighting by then. perhaps they ‘add an iron or a toaster. If they wish really to realise the benefits that electricity can confer, they should apply it in its entirety-let it do the work of the whole house. The

supply of power for domestic and power purposes is very cheap, which is more’ than can be said for any other form of labour, and the more. that is used the cheaper in proportion it becomes. Why not then electric power for cooking, cleaning, the sewing machine, the washing, and the radio? The saving, will offset the total electric bill an pay interest. and depreciation ‘on th

Fatigue of the eye is measured by the number of involuntary blinks over a specified period. More than three blinks 4 minute indicate that the subject is working under unsuitable light. Working by candle-light, a man was observed to blink seven tiftes within a minute. When this was changed to electric light he blinked only twice within the minute.