Modern Home

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

Modern Home

Difference of Opinion (QUITE naturally, people have radi cally different: ideas about. the type of ‘house’ they would like to live in, To some a.modern house planiied and equipped to save labour is ideal, but there are, perhaps, just as: many who prefer an old house; with .the charm which age alone can give, However, this latter home is quite all righr to look at and enjoy the idea of its antiquity,. but unfortunately our present-day living has. made: me tuke electricity as an everyday event, and we only think about it when we are without it, and then it is brought home to us that it isan impossible thing te do without. I had an example of this recently. A friend had a beautiful old home which had been let for years to the same people; it was prabably about 30 years or more, but as they were paying an absurdly low rental nothing had been done. However, they left the district and the place was re: let. Evidently the new tenants had not noticed that there was no electricity; when they discovered it you would have thought the landlord had committed a crime, and done them the most terrible injustice. The gist of the conversation was as follows :-"‘Fancy not having a plug for our vacuumcleaner! Use a candle to go to bedan unheard of thing! Use gas? Good Gracious! How could we light it? Stand up on a chair? Absurd! What are we going to do about our morning cup of tea ‘without a plug to put our kettle or jug in? Use.a Primus! Cut wood for a fire! Man, you don’t know what you’re talking about. We're living in the twentieth century, -not in the time of: Noah. Send your electrician at once, and put plugs in every room and lights everywhere so we can see, otherwise we will leave immediately." After hearing about this conversation, I began to think of the men in the City Council’s electric depariment. I suppose, and believe, they have much the same to put’ up with when lights fuse in a home-peopie ring up with all impatience as if the greatest hardship possible had happened. Great praise is due to these service men who waste no time in rectifying fuses as soon as the SOS eall of "lights out’ comes through. Whatever the weather, or whatever the hour, you soon hear their motor bicycle pulling up outside your gate.