The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-09
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The Stove vs.. the Fire Place.

The Stove vs.. the Fire Place.
Substantial ofiimne,s to two-story
houses will require each aEottt Ave
thousand bricks, and cost, when COM
pleted, sixty dollars each whether in
side or outside, it is mere accident if
they answer the purpose for which they
are built, for who is there that has not
scorched his shin in front of a roasting
fire, while his back was freezing, in
| very cold weather? Ordinary planta-
tien fire-places will consume weekly a
cord of wood, and withal leave the room
as cold as If there hal been no fire
kindled. Hourly during cold days.
the fire has to be replenished and the
hottest part of the chimney is its top,
for Cloths of the heat escapes up the
fue. The chuncks may be drawn to-
gether, and fresh wood thrown on, but
| all to little purpose half the time, for
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 q Minute :"
the minute is prolonged to an hour !;
the door stands sjar all the while, until
the draft of fresh air chills the room
and inmates, when on must 60 few
more logs to resupply the lost heat.
This policy, so universally practiced at
the south, costs money. 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 bald the fires when they
having nothing else to do, etc.
Against just such fallacious ideas
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? answer unhesi-
tatingly the stove. As the cooking stove
has supplapted the Dutch oven, so
should the heating stove supersede the
fireplace in most of our rooms.
To-day is cold and icy, The wind
blows briskly from the northeast.
Three hours ago entered the room in
which I am writing, and for the first time |
this fall, kindled fire in q 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 had to move of from the
stove. and to this time the remotest
corner of tho room Ia perfectly comfort
able.
: Yesterday morning, 1t daylight Cd
November, white FROSTY, with a few
splinters and gnarled stick of pine,
probably 20 inches long and inches
square. I kindled q fire in stove at
9 A. M. three or four small oak sticks
were added !; at IL NJ. as many more,
and again at 3 P. NJ; at P. NJ. this
room, sixteen by twenty feet, with a
ceiling twelve feet high. was warm and
comfortable, and had been so through
out the day. Had either of these ex-
periments been tried in room with a
Fireplace, I 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 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 filled with water and
placed upon the stove will furnish by
evaporation the necessary moisture as
rapidly as needed.