THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2762, 17 March 1910, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

THE ELECTRICAL HOUSE

Electricians- dream that, in addition to its other uses, electricity will be harnessed to- .most of the operations that go on in the home. It .is now (says the “Scotsman”) applied to half a hundred such purposes. New York leads all cities", in this movement. More families in New York now do all their cooking by electricity, and there are homes in which 1 all the \vork—sewing, washing, ironing, sweeping, and cooking—is done just by pushing buttons.

The electric kitchen of 1910 is a table, with a row of knobs at the hack. These knobs are for the wire connections. Each utensil has a heater in the bottom. The cook, to set it going, plugs the short wire attached to the stewpan, or Avhatwer it is, into a socket in the -back of the table, just as a telephone girl makes a connection, and the pan hea ts up' at once. A 'now electric range lias- just been developed in New York. This looks like an ordinary range. It has pads on the top that, are heated red -hot by electricity. The cooking is done in ordinary utensils set on the tops of these pads. The new electric range'has an oven, also Avhat- is known as a quick oven, for pies and similar things. Besides-its use in Abashing, ironing, and cooking, for sweeping and for running the sewing-machine and the pianola, electricity will be applied to many other devices in the electrical house of 1910. The electric razor is one of the .most recent innovations. Several arc in use in New York. It is built on the prineij-’e of the laAvn-inower. It has severe; blades that turn at the rate of several thousand evolutions per minute. You connect it Avith an- electric , light globe socket and uioav your face*. The electric shaving mug is more familiar. It heats the water in the mug. Of CQurse, it- Avill, just as well, heat water for a nice hot drink. Electric toilet articles are numerous already. Electric massage jiggers are 'veil known. Almost every barber's shop has one. A similar-looking machine is now made for women. It contains small fans that reA r olve rapidly and blow a blast' of hot or cold mr for drying the hair. Electric heaters have been in use for a Tong time. The head of a family residing in an electrical in New York pushes a button that closes the bedroom window before be gets out of bed in the morning. He pushes another button, and that turns on the elec trie heater. Before he is out of his hath the water is hot in his electric shaving mug, and a turn of the button sets his electric razor humming. 'His breakfast is prepared on an electric range, with the bread toasted on an electric toaster on the table. When he has finished, lie takes his electric motor or an electric train to his office down tmvn. After he lias departed and the breakfast is out of the Avay, the house is swept- and' cleaned by the electrical devices, the linen is Avashed and ironed and all the other AA’ork is completed wit l ’ the aid of electricity. When the head of the family returns for dinner at seven o’clock the meal has been cooked by electricity and is ready to servo.

SOCIAL NEWS

(From, the- Society Papers.)

Lord Plunket, who will scon be l«a\ ring New Zealand, where ho has been Governor for the last five years, is 45. He is tike fifth baron. The first peer Avas created in 1527, on his appointment as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, and afterwards held the office c/f Lord Chancellor of Ireland for 11 years. Tliie third baron was Lord Chief Justice for Ireland, whilst the second and fourth peers held high offices in the Church. Lord Plunket served an able apprenticeship to office as private secretary to two Lords Lieutenants of Ireland, Earl Cadogan and the Earl of Dudley. In 1894 ho •married the younge-st daughter of the first Marquis of Dufferin. and succeeded in 1897. They have two sons and five daughters.

Viscount Morley of Blackburn is 71. It will always bo difficult to think of him as anything but John Morley. the friend and disci pic of Gladstone. Politics have had a- largo share of Lord Morley’s time 1 , but literature bar. always claimed liis heart. He is a mine of 'knowledge—the knowledge of the library. He did not enter Parliament until 1883, being then nearly 50 years of age, but he went there Avith a political reputation fully justified: by his powerful journalistic work on the old “Pall Mall Gazette.” In the early days of his Parliamentary career party feeling was a stronger barrier to the common good than has happily been the case in later years, and pis fearless utterances and claims for liberty of action apart from party issues created a lasting impression. There are comparatively few public men avlio have followed such lofty ideals or avlio enjoy such a reputation for integrity and honesty of purpose.

The Marquess of Tavistock, who has just attained his majority, is, of course the only child and heir of the Duke or Bedford. The fifth Earl of Bedford was created Marquess of Tavistock and Duke of Bedford in 1694, but the connection Avith TaA'istock dates back to 1540. John Russell, afterwards first Earl of Bedford, who found favor with that capricious monarch, Henry VIII., lived in Devonshire before he went to Court, and .when in 1540 the monastries were dissolved he obtained a grantof the estates of the Abbey of Tavistock, with which he must have been very familiar. Nowadays the Duke of Bedford ranks among the best landlords in tho United Kingdom; his great estates are managed on scientific principles, and ltis treatment of his tenants is uniformly generous and sympathetic. Lord Tavistock has been educated on thoroughly sensible lines.

Mi\ George Salting, who died a few weeks ago, is reported to liave been one of tiie wealthiest- men in England, and the Chancellor of -the Exchequer is likely to reap a rich harvest from his estate. 'Like the millionaire cago” Smith, who lived at the Reform Club, Mr. Salting lived in two top rooms at the Thatched House Club. His bedroom was full of works of art, pictures of enormous value being stowed away under the bed. A great part of his -collection is at tho South Kensington Museum on loan to the _ Government. He was extremely parsimonious in his habits, except in connection with liis art purchases, and his friends used to relate that on one occasion, when one of Ms lady relatives was to call and have tea with him, he went to a confectioner’s near by and purchased a shilling cake. The lady did not arrive to- time, so, taking the cake back, he exchanged 1 it for ninopence. Soon afterwards" the lady put in an appearance, and the millionaire, much to his annoyance, had to noturn to the confectioner’s and buy tho cake back again 'for a-sliillino.