Evening star., 1940-02-24
NewLow-CosfFa
Keeps Home Clear
OF Cooking 0dors
Improved Shower Head
Makes Bothing More
inviting for Children
BY LAWRENCE CROLIUS.


Those unpleasant odors that follow
the cooking of some of our best
tasting dishes can now be dis
PEELED by a new low-priced ven
tilating fan installed in either the
wall or ceiling of your kitchen. 1t
isn't necessary to suffer in a hot
room and be stif1ed by the potent
vapors given off by corned beef and
cabbage If you remove those old
fashioned atmospheric conditions
and toss them out into the open air
A new circular kitchen ventilating
fan is now on the market which can
be put in place with a minimum of
construction work and you will
probably be pretty surprised to see
what tremendous difference it can
make not only in the kitchen but in
the prevention of odors in other
parts of the house. This new unit
has an attractive circular grille
which is all that shows inside, and
is connected by means of sleeve to
either a short duct or chimney
vent.
A quiet 1O-inch fan of standard
make is attached directly to the re-
movable grille making it a simple
matter for you to take the whole
unit off for cleaning from time to
time. 1t is connected to the electric
outlet by means of connecting
plug of the separating type, and we
are advised that it consumes only
a small amount of current.
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If you have a yolfngster in your
family you more than likely have a
bit of problem getting him to
climb into bathtuh' at frequent
intervals. This reluctance to bathe
=. is not an indication of hydrophobia,
by any means, but only because the
facilities which are provided the
average small child are possibly
little staggering and awe inspiring.
The great waterfall which tumbles
out of the man-sized shower head is
almost cloudburst to the small one,
you know. and we think it would
help things lot if his equipment
were scaled down to his size.
You can get a new shower head
now which is installed right under
the valves of your present bath
spray that will deliver just the right
sized deluge for little people. The
head is adjustable, of course, and
junior can sing and dance around
under an invigorating bath just like
his father.
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While we are on the subject of
children we are reminded of a clever
idea to eliminate the haph@Zard
''art work" that so many youngsters
indulge in on your favorite wall
paper. or painted decorations. The
first impulse a parent has when he
finds scrawled drawing on the wall
of the living room is to spank out
this latent desire for artistic express
sion, but just think of the great
painters and sketchers that have
been stifled this way in their early
youth.
Why not install some wall paper
which will take these efforts without
damage. and provide a place for
your child to draw on wall" as
we'll? Whether he uses this special
wall paper or not is, of course, ques-
tionable and more or less up to you,
but at least it provides a central
place for him to try his hand.
This new wall paper forms hori-
zontal strip about 3 feet high which
can be placed on one wall of the
child's room, let us say, and has
number of small "blackboards" SIM
ulated upon its surface. These
blackboards are coated with special
finish which makes them easily
washable with some mild soap, and
can be used over and over without
wearing off, we are advised by the
manufacturers.
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Few things can be more irritating
to the average housewife than cord
on an electric iron which keeps
kinking and tangling. It slows down
the already tedious work with con-
slant struggling to disentangle an
otherwise adequate length of cord,
and also tends to wear the cord out
long before its time.
You have probably seen the coiled
rubber jackets which are now being
installed on telephone cords to pre-
vent just such condition. Well,
those same rubber devices are now
being used to keep appliance cords
straight and out of the way. They
are inexpensive and easy to put on
and we would think that they could
pay for themselves in no time at all
in trouble saved, as we'll as cutting
down on the consumption of new
cords.
If you would like to know the
names of the products described in
this column send a stamped, self
addressed envelope to Lawrence
Crolius, 81 East Sixty seventh street,