San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-04
EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL
IN HOME so YEARS HENCE
By JACK o'BRlEN
Frigidairc.

old-fashioned ice boxes which were
relics of my childhood days. ! remem,,
Der there was an army Teller named
Mitchell who cause a lotta chair
! warmers in Washington TO vince on
account Of his statements in reference
to aviation. We did not think IN
those days that we would be flying
around in the air as universally as
] we used to do in automobiles.
"Just think. everything we do now
Is done by electricity. A maid IN a
household now sure has snap. Inc
dishes are washed by electricity, the
clothes are cleaned and dried by cleo
tricity, the home is cooled by Frigid-
aire. food is kept in Acknowledgements
ed Frigidaire. telephones have been
by the photophone and radio: =,
BY the way, / was talking to old
Sam Spillman in New York before l
left Denver this morning and the old
fellow looks pretty old. There was
a little static which marred my vision
somewhat but nevertheless I'm afraid
the old boy will drop off before his
hundredth birthday. next January.
ALL GONE.
Some times honey" continued the
old man, I'D Just give a fortune to
hear train whistle once again or
get behind old Dobbin and drive
down n country lane. All we hear
now is the whirr of airplanes or
the roar of the big passenger and
freight airships. Understand they
have specimen of a horse at the
Smithsonian Institute now. Going TO
drop over there some day real soon
and renew my boyhood days just gaz-
ing at that antique"
Another roar and whirr broke in
on the "reminiscences.
"Oh here comes daddy" cried the
junior Boykin.
Within a few minutes the man of
the household clustered into the liy-
ing room. loaded down with packages.
A new bar pin with a radio receiy-
ing set for his wife, an electric scooter
for the junior Boykin and several
radio evening gowns for the Mrs.
Then six fine penguins which were
thoroughly frozen in the Frigidairc
cabinet and kept in perfect condition
on the trip from Chicago.
SPORT MODELS.
ooh, yes, DEAR enthusiastically ex.
claimed Mr.. Boykin, Il attended the
airplane show at Chicago and l saw
some of the snappiest sport models
that have ever been put on the mar
ket. There is one especially, put out
by the General Motors Corporation,
the same people who perfected the
Frigidaire refrigerators and the house
cooling systems.
II has an electric starter, the body
Is made Of material as light as
weighs less than 1000
pounds and with a recently invented
fuel oil, We can get 100 miles TO the
gallon. ordered one for your birth
lay next month. Well. now. how
bout come food. dear. wife; I'm hun
Try as a bear"
Mrs. Boykin pressed series of cleo |
ric buttons. which produced the ia
DE. chairs and dishes and gave or
lers TO Gretchen TO put the food on |
he electric esculator ready for serv.
ng.
These things are not beyond the
'ealms Of possibility. Fifty years ago
We did not have automobiles, air
planes, electric refrigerators. radio,
wireless Photographic dispatches, war
to annihilate men with gases
u, any one of a hundred other things
which are making living. conditions
more modern and convenient. What
will the next fifty years bring to us: