New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-14

II would be delightful, as Tennyson says, TO
"falI asleep with all ones friends" and sleep a
hundred years. and then awake 10 enjoy the
wonderful inventions and discoveries that will
have been made by that time. For thing,
the lucky person who could do that would prob
ably wake to find humanity living in labor say
ing electric houses
There is one Of these electric houses already
in existence. It is in Troyes. in the Rue Pierre
Gautier, and is owned by Monsignor Georgia
KNAPP.
The description Of the house sounds rather
Weird. Had it stood in old times in Salem, The
Inhabitants would surely have been hanged for
witches For when, desiring 10 enter, you press
q button at the side of the door. instantly the
door flies open, and mysterious voice bids you
1velcome-a hidden gramaphone There is an
electrically animated door mat in the han OF
this house. and it rubs the visitors feet clean In
the most thoughtful way Along the wall are
dozens Of labelled buttons. and the mere pres
sure Of the right button viii do almost anything.
from setting your tea dinner before YOU to
window.
When the guests are going in to dinner the
host presses button. and the doors open; an
other and the chairs place themselves The
centre Of the table is arranged with its flowers
and silver and food down in the basement. Elcc-
tricity lifts st. all adorned, 10 It's proper place
and along with il come the lighted candelabrae
From the chandelier above issue the strains Of
soft music as you eat At the end OF the meal
the host presses button the table vanishes
and windows open to air the room
There are no hot water bottles in the bed
ties electrically treated which keep warm all
night. human Inasseuse is never needed
Massage machines there. and can be set in
motion by touch. and applied to any part Of
the body
OF course the food is all cooked by electricity
There Is a human cook employed in the house
also a flesh-and-blood butler. and a ladv's maid
But housemaids. fOOtmen and kitchen maids are
eliminated by electricity in this marvellous house
Of the future.
THE Throne enters protest against the craze
for pets that has taken possession Of a certain
section Of English society No amount of mat
iracuveness in an animal renders it ineligible for
the position OF household pet Neither are ans.
sderation. Poor little monkeys accustomed 10 lie
nor sun OF ne tropics shiver in blankets furs
Tor the qualification Of idle women. Creatures as
dangerous as the python and the black naoflIer ar
as repGIslVe as the lizard, are taken 10 soclety's
been made TO DO duty IN that capacity ana one
NoIlan mss an apartment for her ard mice
fort '''7ii7i'' iof household com
! SEE said New York woman who docs NOT
agree with President Roosevelt about the .iz.
families ought 10 he that member Of she Enc
fish Parliament has thought out a new plan for
popularizing marriage and increasing births oye.
there' HIS notion IS to allow every two persons
VINO are courageous enough 10 marry withog,
much gold 10 go upon rebate on their income tax
and 10 give further rebate for every child bo~,
10 them That IS certainly jus.c~ scheme. .tar
lie che so often nooted. cf taxing bachelors :.-I
spnsters. who may have Il dozen excellent roa
sons for RETAINING from marriage
AS there's nc income tax in the United States
the Ii P.'s plan couldn't De followed here b.f
adaptation Of IL might no device, O. -
JsIHhg landlords 10 offer reduced rents 90 -
;~onits ,5upes ana lhen 10 knock off a dollar a
would be such radical reversal ~ The rvoeent
@e'noaS OF landlords thA' the idA- .2ht at