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electric washette—a portable six shirt¬ 
waist or twelve soxer which washes 
clothes and will spare the fare on silk 
hose or lingerie. Most city and coun¬ 
try dwellings have electricity and in 
a few months this vital little machine 
will be yours for the paying. 
Bathrooms today without the shower 
would be like the kiss to the strange 
maiden who liked it not, were her lover 
unmoustachioed. In order to have a 
faultless shower—for they are often 
built haphazardly so that they leak, 
spatter, burn and scatter—a standard¬ 
ized shower has been put on the mar¬ 
ket which when ordered by the archi¬ 
tect can be put into any bathroom. It 
can be in curved or square design and 
in almost any size. After installa¬ 
tion it can be finished in paint, marble, 
tile or in whatever uniform your bath¬ 
room mobilized. The fixtures are the 
most modern, completely covering the 
bather with sprays enticing and afford¬ 
ing thorough refreshment. 
Practically speaking, the electric 
washing machine in which boiling 
water is put is a perfect instrument. 
Yet we can see some instances where 
the self-gas-heated electric washer 
might be a great convenience if the clothes 
are not permitted to have the dirt boiled in 
and the gas jets left burning beneath them. 
Today, to meet the demand of a self-heating 
washer, there are a few being put on the 
market. 
Along the line of washing machines is a 
“filler” which acts promptly and swiftly so 
that the washing machine is filled and emp¬ 
tied of water with a minimum effort. There 
are two or three of these assistants on the 
market—two of which are good but one of 
which we think better. They can be tried 
before purchasing. 
Electrified Tables 
Furniture is furniture. 
That seems rational—it 
has beauty but not life. 
Yet in the Middle Edison 
Period in which we live, 
furniture arterially sup¬ 
plied with electric current 
has come to pass. Table 
tipping has gone out, but 
electrified tea tables have 
come in. There is no limit 
to what the electrified tea 
table might not be, or 
might not contain. Tea, 
toast, lectures or music fill 
its usual shallow depths. 
But now a veritable com¬ 
panion to man—not only a 
pal but an advisor. Yet 
one must be careful lest 
the amiable invention ousts 
the charm of tea itself. But 
all new inventions when 
they seem the most peril¬ 
ous are the most useful. 
Think of the charms of the 
The instantaneous electric water heater is less than a foot 
high and is attached to the faucet. Courtesy of the Aqua 
Electric Heater Co. 
There is on the market an efficient little portable 
washing machine that attaches to any faucet. Cour¬ 
tesy Bernard E. Finucane Co. 
The conversion of a pottery jar or vase into an electric lamp may be 
accomplished by means of an adapter that is rigidly and invisibly held 
in place. Courtesy of J. B. Timberlake & Sons 
electrified toilet table—shaving-water 
hot, curling irons ready, lights in 
perfect range. It is beyond imagina¬ 
tion lovely. Then think of the elec¬ 
trified bed! 
Overlooking the fact that an 
ironing board and iron are pro¬ 
hibited in many hotels, they seem 
to arrive in other guises. A fold¬ 
ing contraption looking delightfully 
like a little box has been made 
and charmingly cretonned, which is 
itself the telescopic board and inside 
of whose folds repose the leveling 
iron, electric connections, etc. 
Sleeping Accommodations 
Gunpowder can be made out of the 
air, but that isn’t what we are looking 
for—after all it’s a constructive use 
we give it—breathing and health. Of 
late people are longing for health— 
see the new religious sects. So the 
home longs for it, and devices are con¬ 
tinually being made to give the home 
more air and better. An automatic 
device to make rooms breathe is now 
a practical thing. It looks like a little 
box of copper wire on one side, open 
on the other and fitted with little shutters so 
that the warm air escapes and the cool fresh 
air is imprisoned in the room. It is put on 
outside the window sash and without draft 
you breathe clean, fresh morning air. 
One can always supply a bed to the new¬ 
comer, or make one’s 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 fold¬ 
ing bed with that device’s 
many drawbacks. O f 
course this is more prac¬ 
tically 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 con¬ 
nections which, of course, 
it should have—you can 
now get electric sockets 
with two plug extensions. 
This can double your elec¬ 
tric elasticity. For exam¬ 
ple, a lamp and an electric 
piano player can get their 
nutrition from one base 
plug—and you can put two 
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