The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-08-16
a. THE CELLAR.
Some Valuable Hints About Its Arrange.


Some Valuable Hints About Its Arrange
ments.
Agnes b. Ormsbee in Harper's Bazar
When the housekeeper has bought, built OF
hired her house, after due consideration or the
family needs and tastes, and after careful ex-
animation of the locality and construction of
the chosen home, her earliest attention should
be directed to the cellar, as that part Of the
home which is most often neglected, and where
order and convenience combined add no small
amount to the comfort and healthfulness Of
all parts Of the house.
The arrangement of the cellar takes time.
and attention rather than any great outlay of
money. The windows should first he seen to-
stuffy. unventilated cellar, full of dead air
is an abomination. The windows should be
so hung that they can be removed from the
inside, and during all but the extreme winter
months should be taken out, and even then in
mild days they should be opened in the middle
OF the day. The outside of the windows
should be protected by galvanized wire win
dow netting, costing two and half cents the
square foot A heavier, coarser- r-meshed quail
ity can be used instead, if great strength is de-
sired. This quality costs six cents the square
foot. The hatchways of city houses are
troublesome in cold weather. Both the rear
and front hatchways admit great deal of
wind during the winter, In spite of the wooden
covers that are fitted to them, and make the
kitchen and dining-room floors draughty and
cold. This can be remedied by covering the
iron grating over each hatchway with several
folds OF old carpeting or furniture sacking,
and then fitting the cover down tightly. Tho
hatchway on the sunny side of the house must
be frequently opened for air. The cellar cell
ing and walls should be thoroughly white
washed, two heavy coats being enough.
All city cellars, and many in the country
towns and villages, are cemented, which un-
der most conditions is the safest and cleanest
hooring But in the country where the ground
is not poisoned from leakage of sewers or the
foul gases OF cesspools, and where, yet further.
the ground is dry and sandy, a cellar bottom
OF well-beaten earth is not unwholesome, and
mas mysterious capacity of keeping fruits
and vegetables beyond that of cemented cell
lars. Such a cellar should have boards for
Walks TO bins, barrels and cupboard, to keep
the house mother from fretting over the dirt
tracked up" II these boards are OCCASION
ally turned over when swept, there will be no
trouble from dampness or E'saw bugs.n Rails
ing them up slightly from the ground by inch
cleats nailed to the under sides of the boards
is another and better method.
In cellar where there is a furnace it is
great help TO household management to have
portion OF the cellar divided from the fur
mace portion by tight board partition, with
padlocked door opening into it. The boards
USED may be rough and cheap, costing two
cents toot, but the partition must be tight,
SO as not 10 admit the warm air from the fur
pense need not be over $40, and in many cases
even less.
In this cold cellar the vegetables and ap-
pies, butter and preserves, may be kept, and
even in the city the uncomfortable habit of
living from hand to mouth might be changed
TO great degree Here the time-honored vim
egar barrel or keg may have its place, giving
out its supply of "pure cider'' vinegar when
ever needed. Near by should be the swinging
shell and cupboard, and the old time feeling
OF plenty and comfort, which the memory of
the well-flled cellars of country homes always
brings, would return to the household.
quorum of the board of directors of the
District Real Estate Association, of this city,
being present in Atlantic City last week,
regular monthly meeting of the association
was held in the eparors of the Kuehnle's Hotel.
Besides the transaction of routine business
the sale OF their property in square 924, in
Ihls CITY, at 81 20 per square foot, amounting
70 $4,000, and the purchase OF the premises
24e Eighth street, at $5,000 was authorized,
and their agents, Weller g. Repetti, requested
70 carry il into effect. Those present were A.
b. Cooper, A. j. Clark. H. w Sohon, Henry
Busher and George r. Repett.