Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-05-14
Mr.. Anderson,s Column.
Stoves,

Nv """"' u"O Nhhb lhc pullnB tOBctntI W lNo
lengths Of pipe, Of cold morning. may be
made means Of grace If patiently ard silent
ly endured, | am Of the opinion that the test
ing, studying, and properly conducting our
modern Stoves Is hardly less So
Perhaps the unwavelng picty of our Puritan
fathers, (whose landing at Plymouth 250 years
ago we this year make a jubilee of,) may have
been owing partly to the fact that they had no
stoves, and never wept in church from smoke
Who doubts that our modern preaching must
be adapted 10 the temptations that assail men,
through railroads, telegraphs, hotel-c!erks,
and stoves with removals and sctling-up at the
usual and autumnal indoor equinox
The stove is a modern invention and nnova-
ton, and was stouty fought against by our an
cestors. AS early as 1909 Cardinal Polignac
published book in French, 0Fanslated into
English in 171G by DR.. Dcsagulers) on the ma
king of heat, the increasing its effect and de-
creasing its expense" His stoves were pom
derous as stoves and small as fre-places.
Franklin invented his stove in l745,-aH open
stove that can still be purchased, very much
modified. Since his day, brains hayc been ex-
hausted in inventions on Stoves down to
Stewart,-who exhausted his on them
The huge old-ashioned fireplace has gone
out in proportion TO the going out of wood.
Where the heavy first-growth still is found,
there are still the wide mouthed chimneys, be-
fore WHICH, on a cold winters evening one can
blister his face while the cold chils play about
his spine. In the South you find little else.
An old auntie who was my cook at one time
during the war looked up at me with the Sc
renest piety at one time, when asked her il
she preferred to cook by fireplace She
said, "Course / does !" suppose she thought
the only alternative was cooking in the open
field. She bad never seen a stove
In Iowa, once, as l rode by a house, the
woman who presided over its domestic econo-
my came running out, followed by thick
smoke which accounted for her copious tears
and the call for handkerchief; she said:
Hes fetched in that drafted thing, and list
know it will be the death of me, TO say nothin'
about bnrnin' the house down to the slls."
went in to see what all her trouble was,
and found new cook stove, and that she had
made fire in the oven.
"Whod a think it," she said as the draft
worked beautifully with the fire in the rirht
place, "that the fire should be in that pesky
little hole, and such big place 0he oven) be
wasted?"
Her troubles Qike those of cub,) were all
before her. No doubt the sweetness of that
woman's disposition was gone forever-though
from her looks guess the loss was small
Rut bpuop with NV tro,bl,,
housekeeping g. C. ace did, with modest lit
tie stove whose oven was up in the air,-an
admirable thing for dealers in fuel, and for the
consumption of chunks that defed the ak.
In time this gave way to a Stewart, tout of
resDect for Oberiin and the Indian Missions,) J
and here began the domestic discipline. A
new Stewart parloI came out Qor wood weigh
ing some less than load of brick; and then
an Improvement on the coal stove. Each of
these must be had in turn, to save fuel
Removals game which involved the selling
out of breakable things which would not bear
long transportation, and stoves costing from
$45 10 $75 must be sacrificed at low figure
Up to the times,-new Stewards must come,
and "a soon as new one was gotten well un-
be announced.
The kitchen was frigid In winter, and noses
in'the kitchen were blue. The draft was slow,
and the saving of fuel under the manipulation
of most girls, not clearly decernable. The in
tricate tlues cloggcd and the oven wouldn't
bake. In parlor and sitting room it was even
worse, after the frequent and protracted ab-
nna fAf ln e l, h,,,
sighed for the styles of primitive cookery.
One by one the Stewards gave way before
old fashioned (modcrniZcd) air-tght stoves of
the commonest patterns, and at last all were
gone but the one in the kitchen. Now Mdt is
gone and the last money has been expended
for a Stewart.
In place of it we have "Mansard," pur-
chased of my friend Talcott of Geneva. 1
want to tell you about this stove-a gem.
il is at once stove and n fireplace. Like
the Morning glory" it has mica windows
-four of them) in front, SO as TO let the cheerful
light of the fire into the room. 1t has two
reservoirs, SO that soft and hard water can be
heated at once, and these are of iron porce-
lain lined, and swing on pivots, SO they can
bS NuSiil hahhiNN' bahptIs lcl On OT Smut on
the fire from these at will.
The fire-boX Is so arranged that the old ash
es can be dumped into an ash box down below,
and the drafts can be quick or slow at will.
With the slow drafts the air oomes TO the fire
hot.
The broiling arrangement is nice thing,
enabling one to put the thing that you broil on,
q forget what it is called,) Immediately over
the Goals inside. The oven is fixed so that for
baking, or any other purpose for which ba-
king dish would need to be taken out with a
little wooden knob, crate on the bottom OF
the oven can be drawn out and pushed in, and
burned fingers be saved,
The stove is made of very heavy plates, and
is heavy enough in all conscience. But every
thing fits tight, and all danger of any escape
of heat from oven or reservoirs is thereby OBJ
| Waited
| don't profess to be much on the description
| of stoves, though somewhat experienced in
their varieties. But shall be glad TO demon
sIrate that as "thc proof Of the pudding is in
the eating" so the proof of stove is in its
cooking of the pudding. So We are ready tc
cry Eureka" Our vast expense in cook and
parlor stoves is at an end. The fuel bill will
be no larger than before, while the vast expens,
in stoves will be saved II in few wears nv
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