Cheating the Junk-Pile: The Purchase and Maintenance of Household EquipmentsPeyser, Ethel R. (Ethel Rose)
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Cheating the Junk-Pile: The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments
Peyser, Ethel R. (Ethel Rose)
Home economics; Household appliances; Kitchen appliances; Kitchen utensils
You can always supply a bed to the new-comer, or make your living room
into a more livable and sleeping one by the use of the new beds housed
behind a small door in the wall which swing easily to position at night.
The small door can be near the porch, so the sleeping porch by day can
be free of bedding and be an upper porch only. Furthermore, if the door
be placed rightly, the bed can be swung to the porch or to the room.
Rainy nights or cyclonic you could sleep indoors. It is not a folding
bed with that device’s many drawbacks. Of course this is more
practically installed when the house is built, yet it can successfully
be put in afterward. Its makers also offer a concealed ironing
board--behind closed doors--which for a limited home is a comfort.
Should your home not have enough electric connections which, of course,
it should have--you can now get electric sockets with two or three plug
extensions. This can double your electric elasticity. For example, a
lamp and an electric piano player can get their nutrition from one base
plug--and you can put two bulbs in one plug. A makeshift, of course, but
it doesn’t look like one; and if your home was built in the pre-electric
era you can keep up with the times with this device.
Lamps seem to-day to be one of the newer adjustabilities. A very useful
lamp to fix on the piano to light the eye of the musical page will be a
real convenience to the home in which the piano has to be in the living
room. The whole room can be dark except for this illumination of the
music pages--the audience can sit in darkness and have their comfort
evolve from the lighted region. Here is a time when from sitting in
darkness, light, comfort and good deeds may emerge. This lamp can be had
in all wood finishes and can be placed on beds or chairs if wanted in
these ways.
Not snubbing other devices at all, we must lump a few suggestions in
electric apparatus. For example, the hair dryers, giving cold and hot
air, the violet ray machines, the vibrator--all three made in convenient
size and light weight. With these three things your boudoir is much more
complete.
Yesterday, the silence cloth of cloth was all we had to put under your
tablecloth. To-day asbestos in all its fire impenetrability is to be had
in comfortable sheets for table use--to protect the polished surface in
entirety and enrich the tablecloth. You have known the mats in
asbestos--now you have the table rug.
Jars of pottery can be rapidly turned into electric lamps by a new
device made to fit down in and raise above a lamp shade, bulb and
complete paraphernalia. Think of the good uses some old wedding presents
can be put to! This device comes in sizes to fit jars with 3″, 4″, 5″,
or 6″ openings at the top.
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