The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-08
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The Stove VS.. the Fire Plaee.

1uo Stove VS.. lut Il ldNCs
Substantial chimneys to two-story
houres will require each about five
THOUSAND bricks, and cost, when com
pIeted, sixty dollars ea6h whether in
side or outside, it is mere accident il
they answer the purpose for which they
are built, for Ttc IA there that has not
scorched his shin in front OF roasting
fire, while his back was freezing, IL
very cold weather? Ordinary planta
tien fre-places will consume weekly
cord of wood, and withal leave the room
as cold as il there had been no fire
kindled. Hourly during cold days,
the fire hes to be replenished and the
hottest part of the chimney is its top,
for Cloths of the heat escapes up the
hue. The chuncks may be drawn to
gether, and fresh wood thrown on, but
all to little purpose half the time, foI
we southerners are proverbially expert
in leaving doors open behind us in cold
weather. Possibly, cheerful fires may
have partially heated the sitting room,
for instance a member of the family
wishes to retire, "only for minute y
the minute is prolonged to an hour
the door stands ajar all the while, until
the draft of fresh air chills the room
and inmates, when on must so a few
more logs to resupply the lost heat.
This policy, so Universally practiced at
the south, costs moreJ. I care not if
the wood is burned to get rid of it..
The tree must be felled, the branches
Topped of, the wood hauled, then cut
again to suit the fire place, and the fire
built every one of which acts has to
be done by hired help. True, farmers
say, the land had to be cleared, and the
farm hands cut and hauled the wood,
and others bRild the fires =hen they
having nothing else to do, etc.
Against just such fallacious ideas I
am contending. Clearing land may
at a future time be composed as ques-
tionable economy, and surely hands
that are hired by the year should never
be so idle as to have time to do work
to cost nothing.
But am asked, what substitute have
you for the chimney? Ianswer unhesi-
tatingly the stove. AS the cooking stove
has supplanted the Dutch oven, so
should the heating stove supersede the
fireplace in most of our rooms.
To-day is cold and icy, :he wind
blows briskly from the northeast.
Three hours ago entered the room in
which am writing, and for the first time
this fall, kindled fire in a stove that
an able-bodied man might carry under
his arm, using three small sticks of oak
wood twelve inches long and two
smaller pieces Of dry pine. In fifteen
minutes 1 had to move off from the
stove. and to this time the remotest
corner of the room is perfectly comfort
able.
Yesterday morning, at daylight cd
November, white frost), with a few
splinters and gnarled stick of pine,
probably 20 inches long and inches
square. I kindled fire in a stove at
9 A. NJ. three or four small oak sticks
were added at II NJ. as many more,
and again at P. NJ; at P. NJ. this
room, sixteen by twenty feet, with a
ceiling twelve feet high, was warm and
comfortable, and had been go through
out the day. Had either of these ex-
periments been tried in a room with a
fireplace, would have written with
cold fingers, and eaten my meals with
discomfort
The objection to stove Is trite, that
it dries as we'll as heats the air of a
room, and produces headache, There
is science in using a stove as there is in
the use of all implements, and it may
be to resupply the very moisture it de-
stroys. A tea-kettle, saucepan, boiler,
or any open vessel filed with water and
placed upon the stove will furnish by
evaporation the necessary moisture as
rapidly as needed. Exchange.