No Place Like Home… TO GET HURT
YOU face 266 times the danger of injury while reading a book at home, walking down the cellar stairs, or thawing a frozen pipe, that your neighbor does when he embarks on the evening plane for a distant city.
Unbelievable? At the risk of boring you, I shall prove my statement with a few figures.
This year, if the nation’s experience of former years holds true, fully 5,184,500 of our 125,000,000 men, women, and children will suffer accidents—from falling out of chairs to slipping down icy stairs— in their homes. Of the 561,370 or more passengers riding in transport airplanes, for a total distance of 49,000,000 miles, not more than 357 will be involved in seventy-three accidents, and only eighty-eight will receive so much as a scratch.
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I’ve never even considered sharpening my forks. What on earth were these people eating?
Inventors Improve Household Gadgets
A FOUR BLADED SCISSORS that may be adjusted to cut ribbons in widths ranging from a quarter inch to two inches is supplying the need of dressmakers for such an article. It is shown in action in upper right.
SHARP FORK TINES soon become dull. As a result a sharpener has been invented to maintain kitchen forks in perfect shape. As shown in upper left, the sharpener contains a cone of file edge ribs.
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New Refrigerator Has Built-in Radio Receiver
A REFRIGERATOR equipped with a built-in radio has been placed on the market. So popular was the first model that the manufacturer has made available a choice of several models in different sizes equipped with radio. This has been accomplished by having the radio mounted in the top of the refrigerator, and having the refrigerator constructed so that a top equipped with radio may be substituted for one without.
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Boxcar Homes for $3 Per Month
AN INNOVATION in living quarters is represented in a boxcar village which has recently sprung up in New York City.
Inhabitants of this unique village, pictured below, pay only $3 a month rent, or $6 a week for room and board—reasonable enough in these hard times.
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Stove Top Oven Among New Housekeeping Ideas
“What won’t they think of next?” the surprised householder asks as a compressed air toothbrush is added to the month’s discoveries.
An air gun which sprays the teeth with compressed air and carbon dioxide has been introduced in England at South Kensington, where dentists of the right little, tight little isle recently convened. Pressure and chemical action do the work. The action is said to be non-painful and harmless to the teeth.
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design for living in miniature
BY RON ROMERO
Planning a new house? Town? School? Try it out first with made-to-scale plastic blocks!
THE building boom is on! Skyscrapers, air terminals, houses, churches—they’re sprouting like mushrooms. Each one is made entirely of plastic and is complete to the last detail in one hour. You can put up a whole city in an evening. Your living room rug will make an excellent site.
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That’s a really neat looking house.
Jackie Gleason’s Round House
THE MANY TALENTS and accomplishments of Jackie Gleason would put him out of the ordinary class of home builders. And Round Rock Hill, his new home on the outskirts of Peekskill, N. Y., is just that—out of the ordinary. Built on top of a hill in the center of nine acres of dense woodland, the house provides the comedian-composer-actor with “a pattern for living and working” — it contains his office and a broadcasting studio as well as his home.
Everything about the home is round. There’s an eight-foot round bed with a built-in television set in the ceiling above it; a round shower room in glass and tile; round and semicircular rugs and furniture. Even the stairways curve to match the curve of the outside walls. In the center of the round living room is a huge triple fireplace. The studio room focuses on a grand piano.
The house is built on three levels across the 175-foot front elevation. Glass walls everywhere look out over the wooded hills.
Electrons Go To Bed
NO MORE clammy sheets. No more ice in the bed. No more flannel pyjamas. No more cold feet. No more midnight shivers looking for more covers. No more! The Electronic Age has produced the Electronic Blanket.
The electronic blanket looks like an ordinary woollen one of good quality, but hidden inside there’s a pair of flexible wires that go up and down and all around. One is a warming element, the other a temperature “feeler” that governs the degree of warmth of the blanket. Operation is automatic, through a small bedside control.
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Fifteen New Ideas for the Housewife
A handy receptacle to hang on the wall near the kitchen stove. It has three pockets to contain kettle covers and keep them within reach, thus saving steps.
Where to put the hot lid of a baking dish is an annoying question, conveniently answered by a metal holder that clamps to the side of the dish. It holds lid securely against danger of breakage.
Getting around an ironing board in a small kitchen is always a serious problem. This new board, which works on a swivel, solves the difficulty by swinging out of the way so the work is easily accessible.
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