The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-03-25
German Stoves.

! IT is a proyerb in Germany that in
Russia you only see the cold, whereas in
Germany you feel it. In palaces, it is
true, the system of warming by Russian
fiues is much adopted, so that an equal
temperature prevails in the halls, CALLER
les and staircases, but such arrange
ments cannot be carried out in "home
life Fuel is immensely expensive in
Germany and is becoming more so with
every year. Formerly in good houses
nothing but wood was burned, but for
this the old-fashioned Be, liner Kdchelofen
was necessary and the hardest beech
wood indispensable This kind of stove
resembles uge'monument and is built
(of great thickness) of sort of con-
crete, composed of clay and gypsum, the
outside glazed with white porcelain;
the interior is so contrived that the heat
passes slowly through endless circum-
volutory valves, by degrees warming the
whole mass. The interior of the stove,
preparatory to heating, is well piled up
with wood, a strong drsught is created
and when the logs are reduced to ashes
" h~~al" is turned in the wall of the
stove, a. little door is drawn over the
grating at its mouth, and the draught be-
ing thus cut off the heated air rev; -t us
warm for MANY Ia 5, and to the remotest
corner of enc room an equalized heat
will result The drawback to this ar
angement lies in the fact that If the es-
Icape-valves be closed too soon thefumes
of charcoal will pass into the room, and
in sleeping apartment the danger of as
phyxiMion is great. During very cold
weather such casu alties are by no means
uncommon, especially among the lower
orders, who, unwilling to waste any of
the heat, are sometimes tempted to close
the escape-valves too soon, and, retiring
10 rest early, reap the Consequences of
their fatal economy. But the cast-iron
stove frequently replaces in modern
houses our solid old friend the Berliner
Ofsa.s These cast-iron stoves are I'M
healthy, hideous and unpleasant, while
their Intellectual, fires" alternately
scorch and choke you. They produce a
furnace-like heat, affecting taste, smell
and sight, the unpleasant consequences
of which are but very slightly counter
acted by the vessel of water which YOU
are advised to keep constantly boiling on
the hottest part of the iron. When the
water boils, the steam which passes into
the room slightly relieves one from the
distressing sensations produced. by the |
dry heat; but the moment the fire |
goes out the iron becomes coldsl
and the temperature at once sinks to
SO many degrees below as it was half an
hour ago above zero. Wood cant
not be burned in these stoves, as it'll
would flare away too quickly, without,
as IN the ease of the Berliale9- 9th, leay.
Ing any genial warmth behind; so coal or |
peat, or mixture of both, is EMPLOYED. |
producing results disastrous to cleanli-
ness. The thick brown smoke puffs ont
into the room, and the muslin curtains /
look grlmy as soon as put up. Some of |
my old-fashioned friends used to declare I
that the expense of washing counter.
balanced the cheapest kind of fuel. and |
they stuck to their concrete stoves with
affection. In some modern |
houses the Berlin stove will have an I
opening like an English fireplace, but
this is confessedly a luxury, concession !
to the eye, for the real business is done
by the useful concrete at the back. tits
almost saperfuous to observe how much
work is saved to servants by this institu-
Iion of stoves. No bright CRATES, no
polished steel Tenders and fire irons and
ormulu; no black-leai mysteries, no /
rotten stone and emery paper and
chamois leather. The wood is showed in
and piled up, light is set to it, the
lanes go roaring upward, the handle ia
presently turned, and the room will keen
warm Tor the next eight or ten hours
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