Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-12-09
HOW 20 Heal Houses.

Heating houses Is . subject which nc
doubt uples q considerable share Of
attention during the severely cold and
disagreeable weather We have had Tor
some days past, and how to get heat
the quickest and with the least trou Ole
and expense. Between stoves, open
crates, rot air and hot wafer the put
Ic mind IL divided and II has never
bean shown definitely which Is the
cheapest and best. The Popular
Monthly Science" for December has
made the heating OF houses Q subject
for practical thought and illustration
and from Its advanced standpoint In
science deals with the subject in such Q
manner rs will surprise moss people.
IL tells us that what we want 10 keep
a, warm Is heat and not hot cir. Bat
fs not hot air heating? will be asked
BY everybody who feel comfortable be-
side registers In the wall from which
radtate rays Of heat. This 10 very
natural question TO ask, and It 10 asked
90 cor Fl IDENTIFY that there would appear
as II there might be some difficulty In
aus yering H. The writer in the
"Monshly," however, approaches the
81 bject In an argumentative manner,
and what 10 said must be admitted TO
be more THAI uere abstract theories.
He informs US that what We want to
keep us warm Is heat, not hot air. He
illustrates his position by telling us
o netting which We all know, and
shat Is, that person can keep warm
standing in the sunshine in winter,
when The air around Is at the freezing
point Another illustration Is one
equally striking and not strange TO us,
aud that is that brick pavement In
the supsh me frequently has = TEN pera
ture twice as high as thai Of air. These
two illustrations form the basis OF thi
Monthly" writer's Argument IN iavol
of direct heal, aud be would have thi
principle applied 70 tue beating 0
houses.
B yond comfort, the argument
carried into physical science and tn
same writer Rscrioes The wonderful de
velopment OF lang and bron ;hiAl dis
eases to he changes from the no. air Il
do rs 10 the cold air out OF dooIs. Til
looks ike reasonable argument, an
we usy we'll ask the question, VIII
ahonld we frss heat the air and brin
it to MS through pipss, fines and regis
tsrs 70 keep us vKrn.' Why use hes
secouG handed? So far as keepn
warn lis concerned, We are not d.
pendent upon tine cir at all. Hei
does not travel on the dir, II has
route OF its own. II we we're depeD der
upon the air to bring as the heat OF u
sun a distance Of ninety-ive million
Of miles the heat would never reach u
Instead OF this, the first ray OF the OF
rs he appears from his eastern bed
morning, strikes MS full in the face al
we feel the celebrating warmth Ia
mediatsly. Heat, like light, has
own road to travel aud is hinder
rather than helped by the air. 1,
also argued, and not without stro
reason, that the healthy, iife-givi
power OF the air Is greatly red uced
heattng. The whole theory Of I
Monthly" scientific writer fave
open CRATES As against heaters a
at ,sm boilers, -hoH'ng thst the lat
are unnatural, unphIl sopbicsl a
positively dan gerous methods OF he
ing houses OF 80 much striking
portsnce are the Wri5er's vie rs tbs
give his con 3luding paragraph
"We make sn artificial clims,e in
houses. We i've indoors In an attn
phers heated by stovrs furnaces,
steam pipes, 10 10 or So and ~e =
from cur psrlur OF hall so heated I
the open air At q ttep, literally /
breath, the Il III perafnre Of tho mir
for US, dropped 81 or Il We Z
put on an extra coat or shawl
shie id The outside OF The body al q Oh
but We cannot shield the delIcate
inRg aud membranes Of the air passa
the bro chial tEtea, the lung c.
Hskeo, they receive tie full force of
cbsnge-the last breath a. 10,
next at freezing cr zero-and oil
prepared. We have been sittiug,
hsps for hours, Ia a tropical all
pber,; nay, woIee, in an atmosp
deprlvsd by hat IRON surfaces d
ozone and natura refreshing az /
ing qualities Our iunZs ara all
Taxed, debilitattd, nGstrBne; and
this condition the cold air strikes t
perhaps So below what they
graduated 10 and prepared for.
strange If pueuu ouia and bronze
are at hand"