Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-11-15

1t is Just about this time of year that
mothers begin to find one aud another of
the household sicllen more or less Baby's
digestive organs are out of order, papa has
low fever and the little girls seem emulating
mamma as to backache, while, worst Of all,
one or two of the family have "chills.'
There is remedy for all this, and, unless
the chills are mmistakable, it is not quinine
1t is simply to take out the square freboard
in your sitting-room, if you are blessed in
having an old-fashioned house, and, on the
bricks lighting each morning and evening a
few sticks OF wood, or lacking the open fire.
place, kndle the wood in a CRATE. You are
not chilly vet and the middle Of the day is
quite warm, but You will find every one in
the house enjoys the little blaze, and the
sickness disappears. For the Younger chill
dren you should also provide warmer clothing
in the early mornings. grant You it is
little troublesome to have to put Tots woolen
stockings and a warm dress on till ten, and
then change for the noontime, but ten min
utes day will save you great anxiety and
doctors bills. Another thing about a little
open fire at night the room where it is
grows wonderfully attractive; instead of
your little ones staying out doors in the
damp, which comes so insidiously that it is
not felt till its fatal work is done, they will
get their chairs aud sit round the fire to play
the Guessing Game, or listen TO a story, or
sing songs. Fires in April and October have
charm that belongs tono others; besides,
it may be you cannot afford to use an open
fireplace through the winter | know it
costs a good deal to warm good.sized room
by an open wood fire. from November till
May, and though, ii you can by any economy
] e. boz .Yl "A
! advise YOU to enjoy this luxury all winter,
vet at least You can enjoy a little of this
poetry of heat these cool mornings and even
ings You find your husband is down
hearted at night these hard times. Try the
effect Of bright blaze and an easy chair.
An open fire makes one feel coutented in
spite of troubles-giyes one strength and
hope the weapons of success. We all have
some great or little eXtrayagances, but is
! there any that is so healthful, so pure, and
such medicine 10 both soul and body as an
open wood fire, Are you lonely Draw
your chair in front of a bright blaze, and
even though you should be too tired to think
it will (and you will understand the express
sion if you have ever made n friend Of a
/ fire) think for you; it will suggest fancies,
aud warm your heart as IL does your
body. We spend many hardly.earned dollars
/ to beautify our rooms, and when the taste Is
for really beautiful things it is well, but an
open fire will furnish room far more beau
tifully than a single fine picture or lace cur
tains, or worst of all, but the hight of many
a housekeeper's ambition, "parlor set"
Let your sofa be old and your easy chairs
shabby with use, with bright wood fire
you have an ever changing, beautiful land
scape. Set plants in your windows, train
vines over your walls, aud laugh at hard
times touching your bonny " liying-room."
Your richer neighbors will exclaim, aud
envy, but-they won't have the sense TO
knock out their freboard---I long TO do il
for some of them But, perhaps, you OBJ
ject, "an open fire makes so much dust"
Not bit of 1t Wood ashes are to coal
ashes what n wood fire is to a coal fre--the
poetry Of ashes, light, clean, and harmless
TO furniture and lungs The fire will need
attention, but any child over three years old
can bring the wood, piece at time, and
enjoy the honor. Then everyone delights
in fixing an open wood fre--no two do
it alike, and each secretly looks down upon
any way but his as mere pretense OF mend
ing fire. Then there is no litter in room