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© Clinedinst
it doesn't take long to get it hooked up
At the left is the antenna wire, flung out of the window, and at the extreme right, the ground connection on the radiator. The plug and roll of wire in the jaws of the traveling bag are an alternative aerial appliance
A Portable Set for Lonely Hotel Hours
By J. T. N.
SOME cynical person has said that love of home is chiefly expressed and upheld by the homeless. However that ' may be, I am one of those to whom days and nights at home are a luxury, and days and nights in hotels the all too common experience. To relieve the monotony there have been always, of course, various expedients, theatres, movies, books. None, however, as good as modern radio. At least I find it so. I am often too tired for theatre or movies, even if there is an attractive offering. Also my mind is generally too full of the day's work to favor the concentration necessary for profitable reading. Radio makes fewer demands. No matter how tired or preoccupied, you can listen. Sweet voices sing for you, bands play, violins, horns, orchestras, organs. Besides there are frequently broadcasts of banquets and public meetings. Even lectures and speeches do not tax your tired energies
when you know they can be turned off without disturbance (or discourtesy) the moment they fail to hold the attention.
The advantages of radio under such circumstances are obvious enough and do not require elaboration. My purpose here is to tell how 1 manage my hotel radio.
My method is simple. After years of experience in regulating luggage — the problem is to carry all one needs but not a scrap more — I have settled down to a suit case for clothing, a small bag for toilet articles, pajamas, books, etc., and a brief case for documents. The brief case frequently travels in the suit case, leaving only two articles of hand luggage. To add radio to the outfit was more or less disconcerting to one of settled habits. I considered having a small case made the size of a set, with the panel just inside the lid. But at best this involved a third thing to carry and a fourth when the brief case could not go inside. So I