Don'ts for Safety

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 11, 26 September 1930, Page 31

Don'ts for Safety

HAR Mabel,-Bver since our childhood days, when mother used to tell you to "find out what Phyllis is doing and tell her to stop," my longsuffering family has been wondering what I would do next. Well, I have bus’ loose again, and in a direction that you would have great difficulty in guessing. I have spent every single penny of Aunt Mary’s legacy in electrifying the whole house. I mean this figuratively as. well as literally, and I have"received a budget of advice from that stern brother of mine that would make a persistent young woman .like myself want to test everything out to see if he hadn’t committed an error of

Oe TT eT SIT STIS nn tt 1 judgment. Mabel, just listen to what he has told this poor back-block homemaker :-NEVDR. (1) When using an electric jug or kettle, never fill or empty with the current switched on, or the plug-other-wise you will probably ruin and burn out the element. (2) Wlectricity and water do not combine well, so to avoid shocks do not handle electric appliances when the power is on with wet hands. (3) Use your light socket for heating your iron or radiator, it will probably blow a fuse. ~ fuse, or change plugs on your appliances. It pays to call in your electrician, With much lov; PUSH.