The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-04-26
MAGNoLIA MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY, April 2c, 1883.

it bc tie walls and furniture of the room
or the person of the sitter, but they
leave the air itself cool until this is
heated in turn by radiation from the
walls. The occupant of the room does
not have to wait for this secondary radi-
alton; he is impartially and promptly
warmed, like any other solid object in
the room, by the direct glow of the fire,
while the air around him may remain
comparatively cool. 1t does not. in
point of fact, get 10 be quite as warm as
the walls and furniture, while by choos-
ing less or greater distance from the
fire, orby the use of screens, you can
adjust the heat of direct radiation eX-
actly TO your personal comfort.
This is not the case with any other
system of heating. Warmed pipes. q
stove at anything short of red heat, and
a hot-air register directly heat the air
itself, leaving the walls comparatively
cool. The room is full Of hot air, which
you can not temper instantly to your
comfort as you can temper the radia-
tion of the open fire, while the walls re-
main cooler than the air when these
heating appliances are used, and alb
stract heat from the occupants of the
room instead of supplying heat to them,
as they do when warmed by the open
fire.
The cheerfulness of the open fire re.
quires no eulogy. But the open flame,
whether of wood, soft coal rhard coal,
is q costly luxury. Soft coal is with us
one of the most expensive kinds of fuel;
but it is worth remembering that one
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will fill a room with cheerful flame for
hours.
For these reasons the open fire is the
most comfortable way of heating. As
to its virtue in producing ventilation, an
open fire lis powerful enough to draw
into the room all the air it wants, and
for this purpose will use indiscrmin-
ately all openings, whether inlets or
outlets, if necessary" If, as often hap
pens, when this is cold the house is not
tightly built, the fire may easily cause
too much ventilation, SO that the feet
become chilled, and the temperature Of
the room does not reach comfortable
degree of warmth. In such case Il
register supplying warmed air from
a furnace below is a necessary supple
ment to the open fires; Il similar COM
pensation is needed in large buildings
where hot pipes are used to warm the
halls. The open fire, indeed, is often,
in our climate, a luxury for n single
room, rather than sufficient means of
heating the house; but the open fire is a
great comfort. Other sources of heat
may usefully supplement it; hut no
other, ut whatever expense of money
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place of it. | have known more than
one builder of his own house who has
found out that its winter comfort was by
no means wholly decided by the height
of the thermometer
Of the heat furnished by an ordinary
open coal fire only about one-eighth is
utilized in room. This waste has led
inventors TO contrive various means for
retaining a part of the heat that escapes
directly up the chimney. The principle
is to warm an ascending current of air
in proximity to the fire, but not to an
excessive degree, and to disengage the
air near the top of the room. Galton
has devised one of the best of these
contriyances, but ii is little known in
this country. In any fireplace the
forms and materials employed make a
good deal of difference with the amount
of heat saved. Brick and tiles are bet
ter than iron for the backing; the CRATE
should project certain distance into
the room, and projecting chimney
piece absorbs and radiates consider
able amount of heat. The fashion, now
going out, of concealing the mantel-
piece with Il board, suitably trimmed
, Z "a tnfI fhf.iff fU
well as a pretty one, the fringes and
other coverings of the false mantel
piece serving to retain and distribute
the heat of the fire beneath.
The hob is an attachment that should
be found upon the CRATE Of every open
fire. Any one can make a good hob in
! five minutes. Take piece of stout wire
one-lifth of an inch in diameter and
twenty to twenty-fou inches long. bend
it into the shape of a long capital u
five or six inches broad put the points
of this . between the two upper gratI
bars and bend down the loop of it unit
it stays level, and You will have a con
venient movable lob, and quite as gooC
one as can be bought for money
The hob and kettle are very serviceablt
for evaporating water, according 4
the plan have recommended for keep
ing the air moist. A hob thus make;
the CRATE fire in the parlor NOR,
healthful, while the tea-kettle simmerins
upon it adds its own element of domes
tic comfort. - Titus MuaSoN C0dn, 1,
Hayper'S Weekly.
Brown struck an icy place in th'
I sidewalk, and down he went all in ;
| heap. a gentleman stepped up ant