To get back to the Home Exhibltion, although the general. outlines necessarily remain fixed, itis won derful how every year, now 20 of them, produces some new contrail idea.' This year it Is glass—a glass house. glass for every article in the thouse, and the latest adaptations of glass to artificial lighting. Some of the latter are beautiful and striking, for example a broad gallery with its walls divided into panels by fluted glass columns from oer to" ceiling, glowing with a soft radiance, Glass dining tables, too, lighted from within, diffuse an' agreeable and novel illumination, very kind to the not so young. T believe you can get glass perambulators, too, transmitting only violet rays. The "get fit campaign" eanner be begun too carly. Hercules, it "may be remembered, strangled two serpents while he was still In his cradle, Of course the glass house wns the greatest attraction. The walls are made of glass bricks, like those one sees. set ina street pavement fMluminate subways, set in a. steel frame; the stairs are glass and the Dalustrades are sheets of frosted glass Gecorated with Bloomsbury. hierowlyphs. There was a large glass cocktail bar in the lounge Stairs and all the drinking and eating utensil were of unbreakable glass To my philistine taste nothing could be drearier or more unhomelike, should feel exactly like a goldfish in such a house." said one Indy. Nobody stayed in it very long, In contrast, the full-size models of ordinary houses, from a three-room bungalow with kitchen and bathroom. at £182,105, a really wonderful design, toa Georgian-style house of eight or ten rooms at about £2,000, fare really delightful, "The medium was mostly good plain, brick devoid fof meretricious trimmings (are really gelling over the psevdo-Elizabethan villa crat) while the Internal planning was incomparable, Kitchens especially, the walls. lined with cupboards sinks, let-down tables, concealed stoves and boards, the whole floor space eft clear, All one with envy. Oddly enough, servants do not like them. They regard the lubourving Gevices on which so much ingenuity, lavished as mean tricks designed to get more work out of them and imevedintely give notice.
Electric Guest Annoiincers 3 oe attractive device makes use of {tne electric light visitor instead of a boll 'There is no] bolt 'When the front-door button Is pressed, at dut all the lights in the house momentarily go dim, and in the day' they all suddenly For the half-hour after lunch' especially this method seems ideal.
Another novelty is a. front gate! which opens automatically as one approaches, remains open for a few seconds and then shuts itself. This feature lakes one into the wrought iron section, where gates and gate-heads. railings, balustrades, outdoor lanterns, door-serapers and' so forth are being. made nowadays of beautiful design equal to the great craftsmanship of Queen Anne's day. Aliempis are being made to produce indoor furniture of iron, but. these are a failure. Iron is essentially an
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