Evening star., 1941-02-22
Electric Cleaner Fixes
Sewer Without
Tearing Up Pipes
Portable Humidifier
Another Godeet
To Make Eusier Living
BY DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON.

Certain household problems oc-
curing with comparative rarity
come as a surprise to many persons,
even after years of living in a house.
What transplanted apartment
dweller, for instance, would know
where to turn for help If sewers or
drainpipes leading from his house
became clogged up? Yet the very
nature of the problem makes prompt
action by the householder necessary.
In such a situation a hometown
er's best friend is his plumber, OF
course. But what a mess and
nuisance while the cleaning out
process goes on! 1t makes house
wife's blood run cold to contem-
plate 1t.
We have just learned of a spe-
cialized service for this particular
nuisance, which not only does the
job thoroughly but does 1t without
digging up lawns, driveways or
floors. You would do well to find
out where the nearest agency for
the new electric sewer cleaning ma
chine is. Tuck away the name for
future reference.
The machine is applied to the
clean-out opening of a residential
sewer line. BY electrical action it
reams every foot of the sewer from
house to street. 1t cuts away all
debris and stoppages, for it has sew
eral kinds of cutting tools attached
to a flexible steel tubing which is
driven in rapidly rotating motion.
Simple to use. it is plugged into an
ordinary modern lighting circuit.
Drainpipes, which have way of
getting clogged by tiny roots from
nearby trees, also can be cleared
with this machine without digging
up the earth around the pipes. Any
size of pipe can be cleared.
The patented machines are op-
Grated by the company's agents in
various parts of the country.
Charges for the work vary accord
ing to the nature of the clogging
and the length of time it takes to
put sewer and drain pipes into per-
feet condition.
Portable Humidifier.
Humidification has been regarded
by many persons as a luxury which,
even though they believe in its
health-giving qualities, they post
pone installing in their homes be-
cause they don't want to spend
much money on the addition of
moisture to indoor air in the
winter.
Maybe the new portable humidi-
fer will convince them that the
evaporation of moisture in a heated
house at this season is not so costly.
There is a model which sells for less
than S25, with no installation costs.
It's design is that of a pottery bowl
with cord and plug. The diameter
Of the bowl is Is inches, and it is 9
inches high. 1t can be placed on
/ table, desk or wide mantel,
into the electric outlet and
filed, and it will evaporate ia
gallons of water at a time, at a
rate of about l pint an hour. 1t is
meant for alternating current. 60
cycle and has a 115-volt motor.
This humidifer uses about the
same amount of electricity that
25-Watt electric bulb uses. You have
to keep it full of water, by hand, of
course. And here's a point which
is we'll to know. Homes of mod
crate size need only one source OF
humidiflcatiOn. You can no more
Confne air-borne humidity to one
room than you can keep air from
one room passing to another.
There are other models, too, more
elaborate in design, more delicately
regulated as to output of moisture,
selling from $3950 to s124.
Window ventilators.
With the March winds and April
rains in the offing, it seems good
time to think about installing WIN
dow ventilators in the home. Venti-
Iators which allow air to enter a
room but keep out rain, snow and
wind are no longer the elementary
products we knew in our childhood.
Those framed cheesecloth sections to
fit in the bottom of double hung
windows still are available, but there
are improved models which do a
more efficient job.
One of these is a ventilator pat
termed after Venetian blind. 1t fits
In a dOuble-hung window like an
old-fashioned ventilator, but that is
all it has in common with the older
type. 1t is made of enameled steel
lowers which can be opened wide,
tilted for a partial opening or closed
Each louver is about
inches wide, and the steel is treated
for rust resistance.
There is one model five lowers
high, with maximum openings of
about inches between lowers
and with a stationary outside louver
to defect rain. There is also a two
louver model, for use in extremely
cold weather.
Once you put the ventilator in the
window, you won't have to take it
out until spring, for you can adjust
the lowers to meet conditions
caused by outside temperature. In
deed, there is a locking device to hold
the ventilator in position under the
lower window for a whole season.
The ventilators come in three
for windows IA to % inches
wide, % to "a inches wide, or "a to
81 inches wide They cost from
S2.45 to 1896 each, and may be
in ivory, green or brown.