The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-01-20
How to Treat a Stove In Winter.

we mean wood stove. First, build
good fire. When it is burned down some
what, SO that there is good bed of Goals,
ed more wood, and let 1t be heavier, with
few small sticks. Get this in full
blaze, and let it burn for few minutes.
by this time your room is pretty well
ventilated; for stove with a 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
10 current, not only in the room but in
the stove, (which draws up the heat" as
it is said, and truly. This, in a great
measure, accounts for the tardiness of
warming a room in the morning. The
ventilation is good, but the GOODNESS of the
room 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 radiation of the Goals and thin diff
fused flame, while, most of all, the air in
the stove will be, not as it was before
| cool, as 1t 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. ..a..o
We were led to these facts more paticu-
| larly by stove-pipe in the front apart
ment of our buildings, which we found
| wramed greater space sooner than the
stove in the room we occupied At first
we could not account for it. Why stove
| pipe should warm room land larger
one at that) sooner than both stove and
a pipe, was beyond our comprehension.
BY careful noting we found that the pipe
| In the other room threw out the heat
| without getting up current-without
drawing off the warm air in immediate
contact 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 ventilation.
| A good bed of Goals, with a few large
dry sticks partly burned, and the stove
shut tight, is the best way of heating a
room It is also lasting BESIDES it is a
saving OF wood. In order to heat d room
quickly with stove-ssy in the morning
tile draft, or front part of the stove;
should be outside of the room. But still
the stove would not be 80 hot as when
filed with confined hot air, in addition to
the radiating heat. The best way is to
close your stove on going to bed, with q
large dry stick in it, laid on bed of live
Goals. Ii your stove is r-tight-with lust
sufficient dranght to take off the smoke
you Will have bed of Goals in the morn
Ing, and warm stove. Now fill with
wood-small sticks below, large on top.
Let 1t blase few minutes, then close the
dfaught In few minutes more your
room will begin to feel comfortable though
there seems to be dead stove For ven
tilation, lett burn longer before the dam
per Is turned, with less wood. The ven.
tilatlon and warming may thus be done al
any time by turn of the damper.9
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 ire 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. sal-s@,--
But few know the advantage of sea.
soned wood-fewer still of Mcrouo5tly sea.
soned wood. 1t would pay to make a kiln:
dry to dry your wood If you do not be-
lleve 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 an 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 1t out; go from home, rather than
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.-Erchanas. IN