Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion permitted—without the slightest fear of being poisoned. For tastes which run in an aesthetic direction, Messrs. Battam and Heywood have turned out some very ingenious devices in the way of orna- mental ventilation. An extracting flue does not very readily lend itself to artistic treatment ; but Messrs. Battam & Co. contrive to make theirs really ornamental; whilst a Tobin tube, disguised as a classic pedestal, only wants surmounting by a Ferrierized bust, or a “ too-too ” jar, with the bottom knocked out, to be complete both from the sani- tary and the aesthetic points of view. It would be as well to make this addition, not merely on artistic, but on practical grounds ; as, otherwise, the “ pe- destal ” will inevitably be utilised ere long for some more solid burden ; when its usefulness as a venti- lating apparatus will be somewhat impaired. How long it will be before the domestic use of the electric light makes us a little less dependent than in these dark ages of gas and candle, upon artificial ventilation of any kind, it would of course be rash to prophesy ; Mr. S. J. Mackie’s electric-lamps are at least a step in that direction. Messrs. Siemens, Swan, Woodhouse and Rawson, have also shown us how artistically this beautiful light may be adapted to private dwellings. In the humbler regions downstairs, we have only two small novelties to note. One, the grease-trap of Mr. Whiteley, which has a contrivance like a fish-strainer for lifting out the grease ; the other,