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Show By France Ainsworth i One of every home-maker's primary pri-mary concerns is to keep her home safe . . . and I know you'll be interested in-terested in what I learned recently when I met Mr. Hayes Quinn, color consultant of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Color can be used for safety! Mr. Quinn explained that industry has long used color to help reduce accidents ac-cidents and raise morale in plants. Well, it is certainly logical that we housewives can do the same, isn't it? For instance: Bright colors may be used as danger signals other colors used to induce cleanliness cleanli-ness and good housekeeping. I'd like to tell you some of the new uses, for paint that we found after thinking over this idea. First, we painted our basement steps a light color. As these steps are generally not lit as well as others, oth-ers, the light color paint helps to see better and saves dangerous falls. Then we painted the electric switches andx the furnace door handle in bright red as a danger signal. After we had accomplished these safety precautions, my husband decided de-cided to paint each one of his tools with a different color handle to help choose them in a hurry . . . and, not to be outdone, I did the same thing with my kitchen utensils. uten-sils. You'd be surprised how much time I actually save by knowing which handle is painted what color! We're planning to outline our house numbers and mailbox in a deep color which harmonizes with our house and we are going to use our new safety paint idea in dozens of other places, too. I think that all of us should use every method we know of to insure home safety don't you?. |