Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 Winnipeg free press thursday january 8, 1976 victorian Era labor savers Farewell the los Angeles times los Angeles the Good old Days arc gone and that s of. With them went Oak ice boxes with overflowing drip pans ovens without Thermo stats lighting fixtures so convoluted they seemed de signed to catch dust and vacuum cleaners that required two operators to do a mediocre Job. Those were products of Eaton s it s a Bride s world Reserve your seat for Eaton s bridal fashion shows now Reserve your heat now for one of Eaton s bridal fashion shows. See All that s new and different for the "76 Bride. Show times thursday january 22nd., Friday january 23rd., monday january 26th, at . Grill room fifth floor downtown. And on tuesday january 27th, at . In Garden court upper level Polo Park. Refreshments from Eaton s hostess shop will be served. Plus a door prize each night. Reserved seating Only. Tickets available downtown information Booth main floor. Bridal Salon fourth floor and Brid Al registry China third floor. At Polo Park service Bureau lower level bridal registry upper level and no. 1 shop main level. Tickets each 2.50 Early industrialization labor saving devices of the turn of the Century victorian Era. To see them and perhaps to better appreciate the efficiency of today s household goods requires no More than a trip to the new Garland Hall of american history at the los Angeles county museum of natural history. Stepping Back into the Vic Torian Era require a lot of Barf breaking labor and mind bending frustration we Don t even think about today. Consider the Regina pneumatic cleaners advertised in 1910 As the most perfect the most practical and easiest to operate of All vacuum cleaning machines and the greatest labor savers Ever maybe so. But you had to pump them like a Farmer drawing water for the hogs. They were Watermelon sized Metal cylinders on wooden bases with wooden feet. While one person pumped on a 3 1-2-foot Oak handle an other wielded a slotted pickup Arm on the end of a Hose leading from the vacuum Cylinder. Housewives try ing to use the Regina Neu a Al Paradis or. Bruce d. Wood manag ing director of checker Board realty Ltd. Is pleased to Welcome Al Paradis a qualified realtor to his new position As sales representative. Al Paradis a lifetime Resi Dent of Winnipeg has recently completed the com Pany s comprehensive training program and has already achieved consider Able Success in assisting his clients with Checkerboard s Brand of old fashioned personal Al invites his Many friends and acquaintances to con tact him on any real estate matter at his office a 340 Stafford St. 284-3173 or at Home 253-8285 anytime. Hell be Happy to say on now till Jan. 31 v Sale savings up to selected items from our Complete Stock. Reduced from 10 50% watch for our Orange Sale tags. Unlimited Chah Gex Polo Park 775-9048 uni City 889-7645 Matic cleaner Solo found it required strength patience and agility possessed by few. A person with the inclination and Energy to Cook a meal after a bout with the vacuum might have faced a stove branded reliable a massive cast Iron and chromium adventure the front of which was All but lacking in smooth easily cleaned sur faces. This wonder cooked with natural Gas 46 per cent cheaper than Coal an and and its manufacturer promised there was nothing useless put in nothing useful left exposed pipes carried Gas to four burners and an oven. Criss crosses and leaves and other grease catching decorations were cast into the stove front adding to its attractiveness until cleanup time came around. The oven had no Thermo stat. But that did t have to bother the Crafty not if she could read Chicken feathers. That Art required suspending a Feather in the oven and judging. By How much it was singed whether the temperature was too hot too Cool or just right. A Cook lacking Chicken feathers could resort to a form of masochism demanding inserting a hand into the hot oven. If pain did t Force withdrawal for 60 seconds the oven was a 45-second ordeal was equated with a moderate oven. And if one could tolerate a count of Only 20 or 25, the oven was the reliable stove has come a Long Way since 1910. Its descendant is today s magic chef Brand Range. Casting Light on the Good old Days was the Job of a new convenience for which a 1902 and urged throw out dangerous unhygienic stink ing Gas and kerosene1. You can afford electric Light what one could afford now was often at the end of an impossible to clean brass dust Catcher that came curving and Curling out of the Wall like so Many rams horns and pigs tails. Glass lampshades were usually Bell shaped a remembrance of Gas fixtures that needed shades which Al Lowed heat to escape. Be Neath the shades of electric lights Metal cups could often be found built into the fix Tures reminiscent of earlier Days when tallow candles dripped on parlor floors. He rested on a base of Oak gloriously carved with ointment of career Diplomat spirals and fluting. From that base emerged a Crank which when spun encouraged the scratchy tons of Enrico Caruso or an other recorded artist of the Day to float from a handsomely carved wooden Horn 21 inches in diameter. A turntable Speed control Al Lowed the operator to make Caruso squeak or growl finding just the right Speed took a Light touch and a Fine ear. What became of the carved Oak spirals the fluting the cast Iron leaves the Curli cues and convolutions and other ornamental design glories of the victorian Era they fell victim to a Corn Industrial and aesthetic Dev Bina Tion of emerging social Elo ments. Judith Ransom Miller instructor in design and technology at the University of California at los traces the social develop ment Back to the Middle of the 19th Century when Cath Arine Beecher whose sister wrote Uncle Tom s Cabin was teaching and writing about elimination of unnecessary household work. Catharine Beecher preached miss Miller said. She Felt one should not have servants or slaves and that House wives should not become slaves to their own household by the Early 20th Century the Middle class was expand ing and in miss Miller s words there were fewer servants and Maiden aunts to do the cooking and clean As years passed women increasingly wanted libera Tion from household Drudgery. The Kitchen was no longer a social miss Miller said. In fact the Kitchen and its doors became socially outcast. Only its product the prepared meal was socially defensible. So w Omen were looking for ways to make their time in kitchens Shorter and Clumsy stoves covered with intricate cast Iron de signs did not fill the Bill. Nor did fussy lighting fixtures dripping ice boxes or awk Ward vacuum cleaners. Women searched for House hold goods that were convenient efficient easy to clean and Good looking. The Advent of mass production simplified the search for mass production was compatible with Metal Shap ing methods that dictated simplicity. Casting which had Lent itself to elaborate design gave Way to cutting and multiple stamping. Martin Siegel associate professor of mechanical Engi Neering at the University of Southern California pointed out that mass production Metal cutting methods such As lathing and milling essentially limited parts and products to symmetrical smooth surfaces. And multiple stamping or forging that produced simply shaped Metal parts replaced the More cumbersome casting methods that were compatible with in t r i c a t e decorations. Interchangeable parts and standardized components of mass produced products fur ther encouraged simple de sign. Household goods were also influenced by at least two de sign movements in the first Quarter of this Century. The de still movement in hol land sought to reduce Art to its simplest forms straight lines and primary colors. That movement which took hold around 1916, resulted in some Beautiful but impractical household a c o r d i n g to Aimee Brown Price who teaches Art history at California Institute of technology and Otis Art Institute. It led to items that did t function Well Beautiful chairs that made your Back she said. The de still movement preceded by several years a highly influential school in Germany that took into account Bot i appearance and practicality. That was the bauhaus in which the forms of manufactured objects were determined by the objects functions and the nature of the materials of which they were to be made. Super cows to Baboons researcher moves up Washington a the Man who pioneered trans planting fetuses to develop a race of super cows has moved a step up the ladder doing the same with Baboons. It is the first time that a successful Transfer of a fertilized egg was made in a Pri mate the highest order of an Imal. Such transplants have become common in cows since the technique was perfected in-1971. The technique developed by Duane Kraemer an associate professor of the col lege of veterinary Medicine in Texas involves removing the embryo five Days after Conception and implanting it in a Foster Mother. We do not want to find a Way to Transfer a human pm said Mark Stem a spokesman for the National institutes of health which financed Kraemer s work. The significance he said is to Speed up production of non human primates with certain characteristics As models for the study of human disease. Scientists doing research in diabetes and cancer for example use the Supply is too Small. That is where the new technique comes in. Kraemer transferred the Baboon embryo March 20 this year. A male Baboon was born to the Foster Mother sept. 5, weighing 30.6 ounces. B y freeing the natural Mother of the Burden of carrying the offspring through its Normal 154 to 183 Day Ges tation period the Mother is Able to conceive again almost immediately. The genetic characteristics Are determined at Conception. The Foster Mother who May Lack the Correct character i s t i c s adds nothing but nourishment to keep the baby alive. Well be Able to build a stockpile we Are building said Stern so that we have enough to do a really effective he emphasized this has nothing to do with taking a human embryo from a Mother who does t want to carry a the transplant technique first was used on the lower order of animals beginning with rats. The Dairy Industry now uses it All Over tie world to increase the number of off Spring from outstanding cattle. 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Letters to the editor yes clickers Aren t too Bright sir Back in the forties a lot of Farmers raised Chic kens. In those Days they used to let the hens sit on the eggs instead of using incubators to Hatch the Chicks. Nests in some of the Hen houses were two or three feet off the floor and were in reality wooden boxes. They were closed in on three sides top and Bottom. The front was open except for the Bottom two or three inches. A couple of handfuls of Hay and the nest was ready for a Hen to add her finishing touches to the arrangement. The As a setting Hen was called usually Laid about 15 eggs and then sat on them for about three weeks or so until they hatched. The Hen left the eggs during incubation for Only a few minutes at a time in order to drink and toilet. T remember when As a nine year old i was helping a neighbor with his farm chores. We were pretty Good wends even if there was Over 50 years difference in our Ages. He and his wife lived just a couple of Hundred Yards away from Home and i spent a lot of time there. He taught me How to milk a cow and How to squirt warm milk across the stall to the cat. One time we went Over the the Hen House and there on the floor was one of the sitting on a single egg. In the nest were the other 14 eggs getting cooler and cooler. My Friend or. Dayton reached under the Hen As she pecked at his hand in pro test and took the Lone egg and put it Back into the ii est and then put the Hen Back onto All of her eggs. How come the Hen sat on the floor instead of her i asked. The Hen meant he said the Hen could see the single egg on the floor when she was in the nest but she could t see Back up into the nest when when she was on the floor. She did t want the egg she could see to get cold so she jumped Down and sat on it. Once on the floor she forgot about the other eggs would the other eggs All 1 asked. Yes they would to said. That seems real stupid of the i said. He nodded a bit and said yes clickers Aren t too spending million of tax payers Money on an air plane factory that has yet to sell an air plane was done to create jobs we Are told. A lot of people would believe this too because they can actually see the jobs being done and the workers being paid. But let s look a Little deeper into this and not just at the Lone egg on the floor. What would the taxpayers have done with that Mil lion if it Lead t been forced from them some would have been spent of food clothing entertainment liquor and Automo Biles and everyday expenses but also a lot of it would have been saved in Banks or credit unions or insurance companies. These companies would have loaned it to business men who would have used it to to build factories or new machines and equipment and to hire workers to work with and in them. So does the air plane factory really create jobs or just shift those jobs that would have been created anyway from something pro d u c t i v e and profitable to building air planes that no one wants anytime you see or hear about government spending Money to create jobs think about old de Dayton s Chicken Coop. Yes or Dayton clickers Aren t Loo Bright. Dennis Mcmahon Winnipeg Home for servicemen needs help sir the Star and Garter Home at Richmond near London has Many friends in Canada a Large number of whom have visited the Home. Indeed Over the years there have been a number of patients who served in the Ca Nadian forces and there Are Crany of our residents who have close ties with Canada including George Oakley who has been Here since 1924, wounded in the first world War at the age of 19. It is now 60 years since the Home opened its doors to seriously and permanently disabled sailors soldiers and airmen and our aim has always been to make the lives of these sex servicemen As Happy and comfortable As possible. We have men from both world wars As Well As others injured on. Active service or through illness. Their age Span is from Early 20s to just Over 90. Two of them a Sailor and a Soldier have just had parties to celebrate 50 years with us. It is now time to Moder Nize the wards bedrooms and All the sanitary arrange ments which is an expensive undertaking. The Home is an Independent organization registered As a Charity and is therefore dependent on voluntary financial help for tin s work. Should any of your readers feel that they would like to join our friends in helping us to modernize our facilities we should be immensely grateful. I will gladly Send particulars of the Home to any one who would be interested enough to write to me. Charles Harington chairman of the governors the Star and Garter Home for disabled sailors soldiers and airmen Surrey England Richmond upon Thomas absolute guarantee of income sir in your december 9 Issue Dian Cohen claimed she could t obtain the rate of return on an annuity con tract issued by a life insurance company. Apparently she did t try very hard be cause the information is easy to obtain from any experienced life insurance agent. The example she gave was a woman who has accumulated in an Hosp and wishes to convert it into an annuity commencing at age 71 and guaranteed for 10 years and life thereafter. I telephoned a life insurance agent and quickly received the answer. The annuity pay ments will be per month. This agent gave me the in Terest rate used in this actuarial calculation. It s 10.38 per cent. The agent also in formed me that the actuarial calculation was based on expected payments for 15.6 years. It s All quite Clear and straight Forward. Is. Cohen left her readers with two misleading inferences. First she suggested the interest rate was seven or eight per cent for All insurance companies whereas at least one com Pany pays 10.38 per cent. Secondly she stated that when the annuitant Dies the insurance company keeps the Cap ital instead of paying it to the heirs. That s not True either. The fact is the full amount of the capital and also interest total Are returned to the annuitant who lives the nor Mal expectancy of 15.6 years. The minimum Guaran teed return in 10 years is the insurance com Pany makes its profit if any out of the excess it is Able to earn beyond the 10.38 per cent less expenses. Like life insurance Are based on the Pool ing of risk. Some annuitants will receive annuity pay ments longer than the expectancy period established by the annuitants tables and other annuitants will die be fore attaining the average expectancy. The important fact is the absolute guarantee of income for life however Long that May be. Reginald l. Kayler . Executive vice preside it life underwriters association of Canada Don Mills ont. Stores too hot sir i am a 14-year old born in Winnipeg and now living in North Van Couver . This Christmas season i enjoyed part of the Winter in Winnipeg visiting my grand parents and other relatives. Because of the season i spent a lot of my time shop Ping for gifts at some of the interesting stores. While i was shopping i was wearing my warm Winnipeg weather proof clothing. Upon entering the stores i almost immediately found myself Flushing and beginning to perspire. By the time i began to get interested in the merchandise i was yawning and removing my outdoor wraps that were beginning to grow heavy on my hot shoulders. I found that All the stores i had been in had the tempera Ture Over 70 degrees f. Aside from this heat being uncomfortable for the employees and the customers it is sex t r e m e 1 y wasteful of our dwindling Energy Supply. I thank you for acknowledging my comment and Hope that my observations will Benefit future generations. Thea Pilutik North Vancouver , ;