Evening star., 1940-03-16
New Type Shower Batt
Fixture Is Boon 10
Women Of Family
Adjustable Arm
May Be Set
To Protect Her Hair
BY DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON.

By DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON.
Most men love a shower. Most
women prefer baths. Have you
ever wondered why?
The answer. of course, Is Woman's
preoccupation with her hair. Show
ering either takes all the curl out
or, if she wears a bathing cap, fiat
tens the waves numerically. Her
vanity keeps her from enjoying the
invigorating morning or evening
shower which her mate indulges in
regularly.
But now she, too, can enjoy a
shower-without paying the cost Of
'unset" tresses. There is q new
combination tub and shower fixture
which makes it possible to take q
shower without having any of the
spray touch your head. It's one Of
the newest and most definite boons
to the feminine half of a family
that we have come across in ages.
The shower fixture and the tub
filling fixtures are all one. It con-
sists of two handles and spout, set
high on the wall over the tub. The
spout is elongated like an elephant S
trunk, and on its end is the shower
head which also acts as spout for
a stream Of water, if you turn the
rim only half turn. This long tube
may be turned down toward the tub
for filling it, may be raised high and
the showerhead adjusted so that the
water hits the showerer on the head,
or it may be bent forward so that
the shower starts at your shoulders
or chest.
The adjustable quality of this fit
ting for your tub is what makes it
attractive. You can set 1t at the
right height for each user-man
woman or child. You can even take
Q sit-down shower with it, or stand
beside the tub and bend the spout
over to shampoo your hair with the
greatest of ease. And you can clean
out the tub from end to end by di-
recting the flow of water from the
movable arm.
But the adjustable quality is also
responsible for lower cost. Because
one fixture does the work of two,
only one set of valves is required
for tub and shower and the separate
tub-flling spout is eliminated This
means less to pay for materials.
With only one fixture to be installed
instead of two, installation time is
cut in half, which means less cost
for labor also. Added convenience
plus savings. We think it is well
worth investigating.
Even though you won't be using
your warm air heating system much
longer, it might be good idea to
change the filter through which dust,
pollen and dirt particles are strained
out of the air you breathe inside
your house.
New filters cost only about $1.50
In residential system sizes, and are
designed to be replaced at least once
Q year. If you have neglected to do
this ever since October, open your
blower and look At the filters. II
they are black and dusty, 1t proba-
bly, means they have become choked
up. This not only wastes fuel, but
tends to make a house chilly and
uncomfortable, for air won't pass
through them as easily as it should.
OF course, when filters are dirty
that means they have been doing
their job well, for all that dirt would
have been deposited on your wall
paper, draperies, furniture and
floors, not to mention your lungs,
If it hadn't been collected by the
alter.
The filters we have in mind are
made of glass fibers doubly coarse
on the intake side. The coarse
fibers stop large particles of dust.
The fine fibers on the intake side
collect tiny particles. Thus the dirt
load is distributed through the
whole filter.
If you plan to use your warm air
system for the circulation of night
or basement air during the summer
you particularly will want to have
every part of it clean, ready to per-
form the air-purifying task.
Even If you have no blowers in
your heating system, you can equip
It with filters, you know. Many
makers of gravity warm air heating
equipment have designed their fur
naces for the application Of replace
ment-type air filters. Filtered air /,
healthful and economical. Find Out
more about it.
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Have you been satisfied with youl
heating plant this winter? If not
do you realize now is the time tt
start thinking about what improve
ments 1t needs? For soon you will
be turning off your heat, and thai
Is the time to have all heating mod
ernization work done.
If you are thinking of installing
an automatic heating system, com.
plete with oil burner, you may wan
to look over new model of one o,
the first boilers designed exclusively
for oil In the days when oil burner.
were new. It Is nothing like tn,
earliest ones, Of course, for eacl
series has incorporated new features
ard improvements. The present new
model has its innovation, too.
This boiler is fired from the front
The casing is extended for % inches
to inclose the oil burner, and larg'
grills In the sides of this exten
sion provide fresh air for the burner
This front-firing is advantageou
because it makes the oil burne
readily accessible both for installa
ton and to the service man. SOM
oil-burning boilers, with burners /,
the rear, are crowded up agains
the smokepipe and the service mai
has to work In cramped and linn
tied space. You may not thinl
much about servicing . new oil
burning system when you buy II
but every heating system should b
taken care Of regularly, even II onl