Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-30

tight stoves and furnaces; flreplaces are
seldom seen, or are made for ornament
and closed up with boards, and our
food is cooked in alright stoves. These
modern improvements cost us dearly on
the score of health, and will continue to
do so until we conform more closely to
the laws of right living.
To provide fresh air for a dweIlinu-
house in winter some would say knock
out panel from every door and a pane
OF glass from every window. But it is I'M
portant to bring in constant supply of
fresh air as we'll as to expel that
which is vitiated by use, and to introduce
it in such a way as not to let in also the
influenza and pneumonia. 1t is generally
unwise to open a window in winter upon
household or public assembly to let in
fresh air. In dwellings where CRATES are
used it is sometimes customary to bring
current of outdoor air into hollow space
in the chimney behind the fire, where it
becomes warm before entering the room.
But for the majority of country houses
CRATES are the exception and close stoves
the general rule; how, then, can we venti-
late rooms warmed by stoves? One SIM
pie method is this: Surround common
iron stove with a neat Russia-irOn case,
leaving space of four inches between the
two, and cover the whole at the top with
an ornamental grating. Connect this stove
with the air out Of doors by a tin conduct
or four or five inches square, leading from
a cellar window along under the parlor
floors, and UP through the floor into the
open space before described. A damper
should be inserted in this tube to regulate
the amount of air brought in By some
method like this we can introduce an
abundance Of pure air, which, when
warmed in the air-chamber around the
stove, will flow out in a genial current
into the apartment. To complete this ar
rangement, however, register should be
inserted in the chimney fiue to carry off
impure air as fast as the fresh is brought
in.
The CRATE, or the close stove arranged
In the above manner, will answer we'll
when only one or two rooms are to be
heated; but when whole house or large
public building is to be warmed and ven
tllated the hOt-air furnace will do the
work better. The furnace, properly con
structed, with gas-tight joints and large
copper pan in the air-chamber for evapo-
rating water, will furnish constant sup
ply of fresh, summerlike air, sending it's
wholesome tide hour after hour through
all the building.
1t is also an essential requisite of this
method that provision be made for a cur
rent of air to flow out of every room as
we'll as for one to flow in, for the original
body OF cold air must be expelled before
It's place can be supplied by a body of
warm air.
To properly ventilate house warmed
by furnace the rooms occupied should
be provided with registers leading into a
ventiduct starting near the floor and car
ried up by the side of the smoke fue.
The heat of the fue will furnish the nee
essary motive power for carrying up the
waste air in the ventiduct Sometimes an
interior chimney, in which no constant
fire is kept, will be so warmed by the heat
OF the adjoining rooms as to serve for
ventilating shaft. If apartments are not
provided with efficient escapes for the
cold air, not only will it be hard to force
warm air up into them, but that which is
forced up will soon be drawn down into
the furnace-chambe to be heated over
again, whence it will be returned to the
rooms above, and so be made to traverse
back and forth in continuous succession.
In order to force warm air up into a
room which has no aperture for the es-
cape Of the cold air, it often becomes nee
essary to heat the furnace red-hot. This
drives portion Of the air upward, but
cOmpels corresponding amount of cold
air to descend from the room above into
the furnace chamber below Of course
then, a portion of the register is INSTRUCTED
by the descending current of cold air,
while the other half carries up the warm
air. Anyone can satisfy himself of the
truth of this statement by holding a light
ed candle or match over such a register.
On one side the flame will be drawn up
ward and on the other side downward.
1t may be added, in this connection,
that the opening for the escape of impure
air, which had better be near the floor
than the ceiling, for impure air is heavier
than fresh, should be on the side of the
room opposite the register Of the furnace,
so as to insure the greatest amount of cir
culation with the least possible loss of
heat. Also, any chimney may be made
good ventilating shaft by kindling fire
on the hearth. Indeed, this arrangement
the furnace and fire on the hearth
constitutes the best known method of