The sun., 1919-09-25
ELECTRIC SHOCKS OF
ALLKINDS AT SHOW
Giant in Harness Cures Ills
and Does Wonders to Make
Life Worth While.
CROWDS AT THE OPENING
Exhibits at Grand Central Pal.
ace Cover Wide Range Of
Household Devices.

Electricity, which can shatter most
1t, has shattered one hoary tradition at
the electrical exposition at Grand Cen
trail Palace. Any one going In there last
night, which was the opening night, and
seeing large wholly feminine crowd
Ground one booth. and a large wholly
masculine crowd around another booth.
would, IL ruled by tradition, which most
people are, take II for granted that the
first booth had something to do with
beauty and the second with food. Not
so. These booths demonstrated that
mans heart is not in his stomach and
woman's in her. complexion. but vice
versa.
The booth around which males of all
ages and sizes and nationalities and
builds pressed in such numbers and with
such breathless eagerness that 1t took
two able bodied attendants to keep them
from swapping all the contraptions on
the little tables was the one where you
found the contra-pole violet ray genera
tor. warranted to restore youth, beauty
and the bloom of health to the skinniest
and least attractive Of individuals. And
the one where women and even girls,
young girls, fairly climbed on tables and
ratings to see over one another's Shout
ders had nothing but pretty damsels
baking pie. cake, biscuits and bread.
VIII Cure Many Ailments.
In Justice to the males 1t should be
mentioned that the violet ray. besides
making homely folks beautiful, cures
whooping cough, sore throat, pimples,
paralysis, obesity. rheumatism head
ache, insomnia, brain flag. hay fever and
most other ills. A wonderful thing. the
violet ray. Seeresses and people who
lecture on the things Of the spirit to
select audiences in delicately curtained
rooms have long talked about the ultra
violet ray. but here 1t is harnessed and
made visible in little hammer shaped
glass things, some with teeth like combs
and some ball shaped. and you Just pass
It. over the place where the crows feet
are and presto they are not.
How does II do It? Well, by cutting
down the amperes and increasing the
Voltage to fifty times as much as there
is in the Sing Sing death chair the fire.
quency of interruptions is such that the
peripheral vessels are widened, with re-
sultant hyperimia, and the absorption Of
exudant tissues is facilitated. and meta
bolism or change OF cell life is assisted
to that degree that the ills of life slough
of like--like anything.
At least that's what the demonstra-
tors say. and by the way the crowds eat
It up it's fascinating stun.
A wonderful thing. electricity. Every
body is always saying this. but 1t takes
a show like the present one to make one
realize what a versatile giant 1t Is that
Edison and the other wizards have har-
nassed. A giant which not only pre-
pares and cooks a mans dinner. hens
the table linen and washes and irons 1t.
but by means of a vibrator does his ex-
ercise and gets up his appetite without
his moving a limb, and after dinner re-
moves whatever discomfort he may suf-
fer from a too heavy meal.
Show Opens on Time.
The show opened at o'clock, and
pleasant It was to see the Grand Central
Palace. which during the war was used
as debarkation hospital, Its huge white
walled floors sheltering thousands Of
soldiers racked and torn by German bull
let's reconverted to its former function
of the biggest exhibition palace in New
York. All day yesterday carpenters and
electricians labored frentically to bring
order out of chaos. and only little
while before the doors were thrown open
il seemed as IL It couldn't possibly be
in readiness but 1t was. At the stroke
of the band was playing in the bal
conys machinery was hummipg. demon
strators were demonstrating and the
show had begun.
Washing machines are a great fea-
ture, and from the way both men and
women hung over the various kinds and
listened open mouthed TO the explana-
tons. It is evidenet that washingday
is a problem in many families in these
days of scarcity of help. The kinds of
washing machines are myriad. Some
of beautiful shining copper rock gently
back and forth. rendering clothes. clean
and pure by the same motion that sends
| baby 10 sleep. Some have inverted cups
that whack the dirt out of the garments,
and some are of wood with the water
| spoutlng out OF little holes In the cylln-
der that goes round and round. Some
have glass windows through which one
| sees the beautiful suds swishing; and