Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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IEVIRIEKEBIEE- contains a heating and water system and is completely furnished with im- mobile furniture, which I'm sure will please the Mr., whose back has had more than one ache pushing heavy sofas and ten ton pianos here and there. This tiny box of a house is sure to increase the trend of nomadic living already becoming more and more popular. Even the poorest of us will be able to spend our vacations in Florida or California, thanks to this amazing creation. As the collapsible home becomes more popular through- out the states, renting grounds will be established at which these homes for the footloose may be set up. Tomor- row 's homeowner will no longer worry when the house rent falls due - ground rent will be his problem. How different, too, will be the school of tomorrow. Each light-flooded room will contain a television set and radio bringing to students current events, operas, or art exhibitions on the hour and within the hour. These latest in- ventions will supplement hooks in the instruction of pupils. Finally, let us preview one day in the life of tomorrow 's family. I shall choose a family well-known to all - the Jones family. The time is 19605 the scene, the Jonses' kitchen, an expanse of white porcelain and shining glass. The characters - just Mrs. Jones. She is preparing breakfast while humming the 1960 version of 'tlllairzy Doatsf' Ham and eggs are literally cooking themselves on a regulated stove while QEIEBEIE-E-NIUE! P 9 coffee is bubbling merrily in a plastic percolator. Fortunate Mrs. Jones is peeling oranges with a knife whose edge will never dull Cimagine itll. Then into the garbage pail drop the peelings where they are automatically washed, disinfected, and ground up The mice are certainly worried abou1 that pail. Then through a television set Mrs Jones discovers that her husband has rolled over and is fast asleep. Of neces sity she calls him again with a -lusty voice that neither time nor science if able to change. NVhile Friend Husband showers in 1 plastic bath empty of steam since con densation units have been inserted i1 walls and shaves with a never dulling razor blade Clucky fellowj before a non-steamed mirror behind which a low voltage unit has been installed his wife is taking the butter from he new model refrigerator. She smiles tl 1944 ant the riddle a duck behind two ducks two ducks in front of a duck and 4 duck between two ducks that had ti be solved before finding the butter i1 her old crowded ice box. Her presen refrigerator has a glass door and is . revolving unit which she spins arounl with the touch of a finger. No prob lems here. NVhen the golden butte Cyes, butterj appears behind the glass the door is opened. herself as she thinks back to After themorning meal the dishe placed in a device that washes, di: infects, and air-dries them. Scientist 30

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IEUEKIEBEEQEBEIEK fabricated house. Construction is a matter of minutes. If l were to drive through the outskirts of Rowley one day and come back the next a huge city of such houses spreading from end to end over this now small town could be constructed within the few hours of my trip. VVith the introduction of the prefabricated house how fast the now speeding earth will spin. Manufactured on mass production the walls, ceilings, and partitions will be uniform and complete with heating systems and water pipes, insulation, and electric lighting. Of course the homes will be copy-cattish. but this allows the talents of the modern house- wife to show up. Pop won't have to drag out of bed in zero weather to shove coal in the old block furnace. There won 't be any. A vestpocket fur- nace hung from a rafter in the ceiling will be available after the war accord- ,ng to its present promise in drying aoldiers' laundry. In cold weather I ahould think it would be possible to 'arry this H 'tby Sl heater in one's woeliet. No more cold feet - or eold loses. Another amazing advantage of our luture home is its semi-porous walls. vhieh absorb all sound. lVhat a bless-- ng will be the peaceful sleep undis- urbed by eternal cat tights, a fretful Kjunior'l, and even the rooster's fa- miliar cock-a-doodle-doo. These very same porous walls will Ie the answer to the picture hanger 's irayers. Many enjoyable hours will I-Blllllllllil be spent moving pictures and nails from one end of the wall to the other since all holes disappear when the nail is removed. lf in a fit of rage, you bang your head against the wall the only dent will be in your head. You see such walls do have their advan- tages. From the prefabricated house with its vest pocket walls and semi-porous furnace we turn to the solar homes, the revolutionizer of the heating sys- tem. lts walls of sheer glass will allow the sun to till its interior with heat and Eaves built out from a flat roof regu- late are warm in the winter and eool in the summer. And with the introduc- tion of the solar home that old proverb people who live in glass houses light from morning 'til night. the sun rays so that the rooms shouldn 't throw stones will come true. This type of dwelling also has its sanitary and economical advantages. first. sinee abundance of light aids the eyes. and the sun 's healthful rays are shining constantly through the panes of glassg and. secondly, sinee the coal bill is discarded and the eleetrie light bill is cut in half. However, the solar house will have its greatest sueeess in regions nearer the 'South where the sun is in a more favorable position. The third type of future dwelling, then, is the collapsible home - an amazing contraption that can be put up and pulled down as neatly and quickly as a tent. Constructed along the lines of the prefabricated house it

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llllllill-I are now racking their brains in search of a device to put the dishes back upon the shelves. Meanwhile, the mechani- cal nurse has been watching Junior. At his awakening, she immediately warns Mrs. Jones, who attends to him at once. After Mr. Jones leaves for work in his streamlined car containing a police radio and a television set, Mrs. Jones cleans her home. Should I dust to- day! she wonders and tries to think back to the last time she dusted. lt must have been three months ago. With air conditioning the necessity for dusting is eliminated. For relaxation in the morning hours Mrs. Jones reclines on the roof terrace and an odd terrace it is. During the coldest December morning one is able to take a sun bath on this open roof while the winds whip about and the thermometer is hovering near zero. Such a remarkable phenomenon is pro- duced by high frequency waves con- tained in the partitions. llowever. it is impossible to live on this ideal piazza since water freezes solid and butter melts. The shopping problem for the belle of the sixties is etfectively solved by television sets which record the latest bargains in meat cuts and millinery. Not satisfied with merely seeing such bargains, Mrs. Jones must feel the tex- ture of the material and model for herself. NVhile the invisible man, Elec- tronic , answers the phone and records calls, Mrs. Jones, without a care in the world, boards her little flivver plane and shortly arrives at the downtown department store several hundred miles away just as its roof is rapidly filling up with more little flivver planes, also containing early bargain seekers. NVhile Mrs. Jones busily shops in the crowded stores for shoes of plas- tic, a stylish spring frock of rock wool, and a new bonnet, a ravishing thing composed of glass, supper is cooking at home - that is if all the buttons, badgets, and clocks have bee11 set cor- rectly. At length. after an enjoyable eve- e through the tele- vision sets, completely exhausted thc ning spent in Rom Jonescs prepare for bed after a luxuri- ous bath in water than mixes itself to the correct temperature, and after drying with towels that are heated on their racks. As for the twenty-tirst century, if you and l are lucky enough to last that long. we shall be zooming through space carried and propelled by a rocket belt clasped about the waist, and visits to the moon will be very co1nmo11. There will be no delicious steaks or fried foods - just pills. VVheu guests conie in for dinner. the menu will read like a doctor's pre- scription: l. First course-white pill 2. Second course --yellow pill 3. Third course-blue pill And for dessert a red Zfilltl green pill. On second thought, l'm glad that l shan't live that long since T loathe taking pills.