Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-11-19

HOW TO TREAT A STOVE IN WINTER.

We mean wood stove. First, build a
good fire. When it is burned down some
what, so that there is good bed OF Goals.
add more wood, and let it be heavier, with
a few small sticks. Get this in full blaze,
and let it burn for a few minutes. BY this
time your room is pretty well ventilated; !;
for stove with good draft is the best Of
ventilators. Your room is not yet warm.
This is in consequence of the ventilation
going on. Not only that, the air which is
drawn up by the stove is cold, and cools the
stove, thus preventing it from heating with
hot air. Thus there is current, not only
in the room but in the stove, which ''draws
up the heat, as it is said, and truly. This,
in great measure, accounts for the tardl-
ness of warming a room in the morning.
The ventilation is not good, especially for
an invalid.
But close up the stove and in short time
this will be remedied. There is heat enough
now to retain fire. There will be the ra-
diation of the Goals and thin ditfused
flame, while, most of all, the air in the
stove will be, not as is was before, cool, as
it rushes through, but hot. heating the
stove, pipe and ALL till up to the damper.
The stove now throws the heat into the
room rapidly without creating a current.
That is the secret of the thing-no current
and hot stove.
We were led to these facts more partic-
ularly by a stove-pipe in the front apart
ment of our buildings, which we found
warmed a greater space sooner than the
stove in the room we occupied. At first
we could not account forit. Why stove
pipe should warm room (and larger
one at that sooner than both a stove and
a pipe, war beyond our comprehension.
By careful noting we found that the pipe in
the other room threw out the heat without
getting up without drawing OIL
the warm air in immediate .coatsct with it
and fetching in, from without, the cold air
to fill the vacuum. 1t was simply process
of heating. In the other room it was ven-
tilation
A good bed of Goals, with few large
dry sticks partly burned, and the stove
shut tight, is the best way OF heating a
room. 1t is also lasting; besides, it is n
saving of wood In order to heat room
quickly with stove-say in the morning
the draft, or front part Ofthe stove, should
be outside of the room. But still the stove
would not be 50 hot as when filled with
confined hot air, in addition to the radiat-
ing heat The best way is to close your
stove on going to bed with large (dry)
stick in it. laid on bed of live Goals. Ii
your stove is air-tight, with just suffi-
cient drught to take off the smoke,-you
will have bed of Goals in the morning,
and warm stove. Now fill with wood
small sticks below, large on top. Let it
blaze few minutes, then close the
draught. In a few minutes more your
room will begin to feel comfortable,
though there seems to be dead stove.
For ventilation, let it burn longer than be-
fore the damper is turned, with less wood
The ventilation and warming may thus be
done at any time by turn of the damper
Another advantage is, to have the fire
in one end of the stove, toward the place
where you most are. thus throwing the
heat upon you. Each housekeeper should
have pan of chips or small wood to feed
the fire when needed. Distribute a few
small sticks among the pile, or, better,
throw handful Of chips upon it. This
will start up the fire at once.
But few know the advantage Of season.
ed wood-fewer still of thoroughly sea-
soned wood 1t would pay to make a
kiln-dry to dry your wood. If you do not
believe this, try piece of wood that has
long been near stove, or in some other
hot place for long time. 1t will at once
take fire, and burn like inflammable gas.
There's hot white light that will do the
business at once. Above all things avoid
green wood Burn it not; suffer; throw
it out; 90 from home, rather than be pes
tered. But do good deal to get dry
wood. Do more to get hickory; but most
of ALL exert yourself to get thoroughly
dried, not seasoned" wood. What should
be the text of every housewife, first and
foremost-dry, hard wood. Avoid all snap
pish wood, rs it is sure to make the cook
snappish.