In each apartment a set of dials enables the occupant to adjust the temperature and the degree of humodity at will. Thermostats and humidistats do the rest. The air, which is driven through inlets placed near the ceiling, has been washed free from all dust. It is heated in winter, and cooled in summer. Raditors have thus been eliminated and there are no fireplaces.
Kitchens are equipped with refrigerator, which are always instal-lec in New York flats by the landlord, and cooking is done by electricity.
The building is the first one in New York to be wired for television, That is to say, wires leading from antennae on the roof to plugs in the walls of each apartment have been elaborately shielded from all possible outside interference, and though television is not yet available to Americans, this system will make it easy to listen to European shortwave sound programmes, Great attention has been paid to try serving grilled pineapple and bananas with the chops and sausages. Veal stuffed with prune forcemeat is unusual, and beef olives spread with apple butter and a piece of bacon have a very good flavour, Orange With chops gives-a new angle to an old friend. Put a piece of orange peel on the chops while grilling them, then grill the orange pulp and serve the chops with two or three pieces of orange on each.
Instead of apple sauce with goose baked oranges can be served. The oranges are first simmered for half an hour in boiling water, then cooled. Cut a slice off the blossom end of the fruit, take out the core and put a small spoonful of brown sugar mixed with melted butter in each.
Put in fireproof dish with a little water, cover with greased paper, and bake for 1% hours. scund-proofing. Floors are covered with' cork, doors are specially insulated, ceilings are covered with a patent asbestos preparation imported from England. Walls are treated in a similar manner. The ceilings, incidentally, are not spoiled by: the ugly steel girders which protrude in most New York rooms, for they are mede of reinforced concrete. This has the effect of making the rooms look very spacio
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