The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-10
How to Treat a Stove In
Winter. q


How to Treat a Stove In To-.
Winter. e'-s
Wensan q wood steve First build q
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 few small sticks. Get this in a
full blaze, aade let it burn for q few
minutes. BY this time your room is pref
ty well ventilated I: for stove with q
good draft ia the best Of ventilators.
Your room is not yet warm. This is in
consequence of the ventilation going on.
Not only shat, the air which is drawn up
by the stove is cold and cools the stove,
thus preventing it from heating with hot
lair. 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 a4great measure, accounts tor the
tardiness Of warming . room in the
morning. The ventilation is good, but
the GOODNESS, of the. room is not0 good,
Especially tor an Invalid. ga aes
But close up the stove and in a short
time this will be remedied. There is
heat enough. now to retain fire. There
will be the radiation of the Goals and q
thin difused flame, while most of all, the
air in the stove will be, not as it was
before, cool, as 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 Gre
|ating current That is the secret Of the
thing-no current and hot stove.
No r4yor Ia to 70
ticularly by a stove pipe in the. front
apartment of aonr buildings, which we
found warmed greater space sooner
than the stove in the room we occupied.
At first we could not account for it. Why
a stove-pipe should warm a room (and
larger one at that) sooner than both a
stove and a. pipe, was beyond our com
prehension. BY careful noting we found
that the pipe. in the other room threw
Que the heat without getting up a cur
rent-without drawing off the warm air
in immediate, contact with it, and fetch
ing in, from without, the cold air to fill
the vacuum 1t was simply process of
heating. In the other room it was Venti-
lation. VIZ ssTaIfaA s.5 pI y e. 3 4nr
A good bed Of Goals with few large
dry sticks partly burned, and the stove
shut tight, is the best way of heating
room. It is also lasting; besides, it is
saving of wood. In order to heat a room
quickly with stove say in the morn
lng-the draft, or front part of the stove,
should be outside Of the room. But still
the stove would not be SO hot as when
filled with confined hot air, in addition
to the radiuting heat. The best way is
to close your stove on going to bed,
with a. large dry, stick in it, laid on a
bed of live Goals, IF your stove is air
-tight-with just sufficient draught to
take off the srnoke--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 a few midutes,
then close the draught.J In. a few minutes
more your room will beginto feel com
Portable, though. there seems to be a
dead stove. For ventilation, lett burn
longer before the damper is turned with
less wood. The ventilation and warm
ing may thus be done at ally time by
turn Of the damper. 6t"5
Another advantage is, to have the fire
IN one end ofathe stove. toward the place
where you most are, thus throwing the
heat upon you Each housekdeper should
have pan of chips or small wood to
feed the fire when needed. Distribute
few small sticks among the pile or,
better, throw a 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. It would pay to make a
kilndry to dry your wood. If you do
not believe this, try a piece of wood that
has long beer near a stove, or IN some
other hot place for long time. 1t will
at once take fire, and burn like an in
fammable gas. There's a hot, white
light that will do the business at once.
Above all things avoid green wood.
Burn it not; suffer; throw it out go from
home, rather than be pestered.r But do
a good deal to get dry wood. Do more
to get dry maple, and more still 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 snappish wood, as it is |
sure to make the cook snappish.--
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