Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-02-10

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heat" as it is said, and truly
This, in great measure, accounts
for the hardness of warming room
in the morning. The ventilation
lis good, but the coldness of the
room is not good especially for an
invalid.
But close up the stove and
in a short time this will be rene
died. There is heat enough nov to
retain fire. There will be the ra-
diatiOn of the Goals and thin DIFF
fused fame, while, most CT all, the
air will be, not as it was before,
cool as it rushes through, but bot,
heating the stOve-pipe AID all, till
up TO the damper. The stove now
throws the beat into the room rap
idly without creating a current
That is the secret Of the tbing-no
curren. and bot stove.
| We were led to these facts more
pBticnlarly by stOVe-Pipe in the
front apartment 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 for it. Why a
stove-pipe should warm loom (snd
a larger one at that) sooner than
both stove and pipe, was beg ond
our comprehension. By careful no.
ting We found that the pipe in the
other room threw out the
heat without getting up a cur-
rent-Witbout drawing off the warm
air in immediate contact with it,
and fetching in, from without, the
cold air to fill the vacuum. 1t Nas
simply a process Of heating. In the
other room il was ventilation.
! A good bed OF Goals, with few
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very 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 a saving Of
wood. In order to heat a. room
quickly with siove--say in the
morDing-the draft, or front part
Of the stove, should be outside cf
the room. But still the stove would
not be 80 hot as when filled with
confined hot air, in addition 10 the
radiatiBg heat. The best way is to
close your stove on going to bed,
with large dry stick in it, laid
on a bed of live Goals. If yoar
store is air-tight-With just suGi
cient draught to take off the smoke.
/. you will have a bed of Goals in the
morning, and a warm stove. Now
fill with Wood--smsll sticks below,
large on top. Let it blaze a few
minutes, then close the drsught.-
In a few minutes more your room
will begin to feel comfortable, though
there seems to be q dead stove
For ventilation, let it burn longer
before 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 cad of the stove, to-
ward the place where you most are
thus throwing the heat upon you.
Each bOusskeeper should have a
pan of chips or small wood 10 feed
the fire when needed. Distribute a
few small sticks among the pile,
or, better, throw a handful Of chips
upon it. This Sill start up the
fire at once.
But few know the advantage of
seasoned wood-fewer still of
thoroughly seasoned wood. Ii
would pay TO make a kilndry TO
!. dry your wood. If you do not
believe this, try a piece Of wood
, that has long been near q stove,
or in some other hot place for a
long time. 1t will at once take
, fire, and burn like an inflamma-
BILE 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, rath-
er than be pestered. 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 thorough
]. ly-dried, not seasoned" wood
, What should be the text of every
housewife, first and foremost--dry,
hard wood. Avoid all snappish
wood, as it lie sure to make the
cook snappish.