The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-10


Not like Bolt and Titles, with its half n
million of bricks, whose fall ia so graph-
cally described by Charles Readc in his an
nails of Hillsboro, nor those immense vents
for old-fashoned firc-paces, of which spec
linens still survive in Vermont. Nor yet
those modern denominations, the other ex-
IRENE in chimney architecture an oblong
brick box stuck on end upon plank stills
In the garnet, one extremity protruding
through the roof, and the other receiving
the pipes that meander their conflagraton-
inviting-way from lower floors through
ceilings ard partitions, exciting the Won
der of all sensible people not that now and
then house is burned, but that any of
them remain unconsumed, Nor do VIC re-
fer to shcet-iron chimneys, cylindrical
lanky, rusty, and surmounted with caps in
great variety, from the PLAN, suspended
pail-cover style to the ambitious vane which
helps the chimney TO draw by pointing out
the way of the wind, and continually re-
volving rotary air-pumps that seem en-
gagged, like some men, in tireess effort to
raise the wind in the form Of draft by
suction.
The chiinneys we mean are those whose
name dixie womans in poetry is frailty.
You buy them at the store any store will
do. They all keep them-it takes them
all to supply the demand, German stu
| dent" "sun burner" or "the old kind, -
you take your choice and pay your money.
The clerk grinning says, Better take a
half Dozen" You vince little, and will
| remember his remark again BY and by with
moro wincing and worse temper.
| ''rake 1t up tendery
Lift IL with care
Be sure you have a good hold OF il, les,
it slip from its paper wrapping before you
reach the door; and when the crash Of tho
smash resounds through the store you will
receive all that tender sympathy which is
ever accorded to one who when walking or
slippery places suddenly lies down to al
involuntary course of astronomical study
But sometimes you reach your homt
with whole chimney. AS You pass it tt
your wife saying. "lIerc's that chimney,
burden of responsibility rolls from youl
shoulders, and you apply yourself TO peru
sal of The GLOBE with all that peace which
accompanies the satisfactory completion OF
difficult work. But the wife feels differ.
emily. She scans it with feeling com
pounded of distrust and despair and won
ders where il will break. She burns it an
evening without Washington they say
that will prevent fractures. Or she get,
on the kettle, fills it with cold water, ant
putting in the chimney sets it over the fir,
until the water boils when it is set off tt
cool-an annealing process warranted tC
neutraize all potential tendencies to break
which may lie hidden in the vilrcous mole
cules.
Or, as is more likely having found tina
all chimney cracking representatives. ar,
like Mrs. Partington's signs, always sur,
some times" she carefully washes 'th'
thing, and il it does not break IN the op
Grafton she fits it on the burner and feel
relieved until.
"fyenng lets nights curtain down,
And pins 1t with star"
when new risks must be sure in the lamp
lighting process. These safely passed, i'm
merscd in dressing gown and the las
novel, or il may be half asleep over SOM
better book. you are suddenly recalled Il
consciousness by sharp crack, FOLLOWED
by a jingle of falling glass. Little scream
from the wife and girls, while the boy
with presence of mind sustained by thei
natural instinct of destructiveness shout
There goes another chimney.