Consuming Interest
One-Eyed Monsters
By LESLIE ADRIAN One of the reasons for this is that a major technical change is due in the next month or two : the seventeen-inch screen is to be replaced by a nineteen-inch screen and the twenty-one- inch by a twenty-three-inch. One manufacturer, Ultra Radio, has already put on sale the first nineteen-inch set and the others will follow be- fore long. Ultra's nineteen-inch set costs £68 Ss. and this is only 3 gns. more than the seventeen- inch, which they have now dropped.
What this means to you and me is that, as soon as the nineteen-inch and twenty-three-inch sets appear in the shops in any numbers, the seventeen-inch and twenty-one-inch sets will have to be reduced in price very considerably if dealers are not to find themselves with over a million sets gathering dust in their store rooms.
Will the larger sets be any better? No doubt they will have some advantages, but a seventeen- inch screen (the measurement, by the way, is diagonally across the screen) is perfectly adequate for a medium-sized room, and a twenty-one-inch is more than adequate. Too large a screen is almost as bad as too small a one. Some dealers are already cutting prices for seventeen- and twenty-one-inch sets and many more will do so in the coming months.
The traditional Christmas tree, and the one most likely to go from Christmas Eve to Twelfth Night without shedding spikes all over the carpet and cushions, is the Norwegian Spruce. This can be distinguished from its Canadian cousin, the Sitka Spruce, by its dark blunted needles and russet-coloured shoots. Although the Sitka has managed to root itself as happily in the Christmas trade as it has in British soil, it is easily identified by the slate-grey of its flat and painfully pointed leaves. But whatever the nationality of your ChristO Spruce, its branches are highly inflammable. A° ammonium phosphate spray (4 oz. dissolved 11 2 gallons of water) will reduce but not entire') remove the fire risk. Do this job outdoors aisl let the tree dry out completely 1_ lore hang° it with decorations. And if everyone used PolYf°' ornaments for the tree, many more fir eirier would enjoy an uninterrupted Christmas holida? Made of aluminium and non-flam paint, the' have the glitter but not the flammability of tl traditional trinkets. Polyfoil decorations ca n bought at Boots, W. H. Smith. British Wilt Stores, Woolworth and most of the small which stock the tinselly paraphernalia of Chri51. mas.
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A few months, ago I mentioned a firm callcd, Nylons Unlimited, who, for a pound down half a crown a week, will replace nylons W. ever often and in whatever manner they come t° grief. My one complaint was that the choice ws5 somewhat limited. I am happy to say that thei, now do seamless as well as fully fashion nylons, and there is a bonus system for PeoPli who go for long stretches without laddering I pair. All details from Nylons Unlimited. Street, Bath.
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