Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-14
" 40 INVENTED STOVES?
THE ROMANS AND GREEKS HAD
A HAND IN 1T.
IT.: Other Peoples Have Had to Hustle
around in @ Lively Manner to
Keep Out Of Jack FrOsts
Chilling Clutches.


the specimen of nineteenth century
elegance as we'll as any other one work
that has been done. If the stove men
Of the country were to get together
some time and place on exhibition
specimens of all the stoves that have
been in use in the families on the earth.
they would have a show beside which
the air ship would pale into insignific-
ance.
In the first place there were no
stoves. Savages had a way of keeping
themselves warm by building fires in
the outer air and gathering as close to
it as they could without scorching the
leather of their leggins or the scarcely
more sensitive skin of the legs. One
of the stories Kit Carson used to tell,
and one he told so often that he must
have thought it possessed some merit,
was OF an Indian who visited the camp
of white men, and ridiculed their idea
of keeping warm in the open air. The
untutored son of nature claimed that
his white brother built fire so hot
that he could not get near it without
being burned, while the Indian built
small fire crept close, and got all the
heat.
OF course. though, he did not get all
the heat. And the problem before the
mind of the man who started out in
the development Of what is now the
parlor stove was to get all possible out
of the fuel without allowing any of the
] ia 20 m 1of a
he has not q::te succeeded in solving
the problem. Even in the best Of
stoves fully rs per cent of the heat es-
capes through the chimney. and it is
doubtful If the time will ever come
when any heating agent that creates
caloric through the medium OF flame
or combustion will do for heating what
the Edison candle does for lighting.
The first step in the development OF
the stove was an open hearth. In some
nations it has never advanced beyond
that stage.
Warm as Greece and Rome and
Egypt are stoves were made there in
the dim and misty vistas OF the past.
1t was not just the pattern used at pres
\ ent, but was a metal basin in which
: charcoal was burned. It sat in the
middle of the room, and as the result
, | ing smoke was of the slightest nc
opening in the roof or elsewhere was
necessary. The same implement still
l called by It's old Greek name Of brazier
r is still employed in many portions o
3 continental Europe, where it is utilized
s for heating as well as cooking.
q But the progressive Romans i'm
, proved on that and made a hypocaust
1t was the germ of the present furnace
=. 1t was made under the house. in lit
tie cellar prepared for it. and the hea
was conducted to the rooms and bath
8 through crevices left in the floor ant
l. lower portions of the walls. Late
v flues were provided conducting hea
:. to any portion of the house. In SOM
of the old Roman villas in England tn
l. still found.
y The first chimney was built in
B. house in the fourteenth century.
"a was the fireplace of to-day wit
\ scarcely variation. In some case
the halls and lodges of the great lord
VI were provided with a banquetin
D. room in which one whole end Of tn
apartment was taken up by the chin
ney. This was largely for the pul
'o pose of cooking, and whole OK wa
T. often roasted in sight of the table Q
10 which it was later served. Distal
I'd portions OF the room were cold. but
a, as the people were warriors ar
roughened in fiber by constant expo
~ ure, they were supposed to get alOr
W with an occasional turn in the war
to end of the room while the feast WI
IT, preparing But il pilgrim, a paine
be man who had been to the Holy Lar
Il. should come along, he was a revere
guest and was allowed to sit in Il
" place Of honor at the side OF the gre
IT. fireplace and to regale himself on tt
nd choicest of the viands and the best
wine, repaying the host for the ente
tainment later by singing or chantil
IN an account OF his experiences in Il
=: land OF the Saracens.
DIS The old Germans, themselves ,
re- most as ancient rs the Romans, ma.
He the first metal stove. 1t was on t
nd outside OF the house to be warme
tc But, while that may seem like
cts curious place to put your stove, 20
~ smiles may vanish when you are
formed that one end of the stove pl
ao- iected into the room. The firing "
Jay done on the outside, and it must ha
IAN been IN unwelcome thing indeed, tn
his to get up first in the morning n
ury start fire in the stove. The asf
on were taken from the bed without bel
~, scattered over the carpet and I
VIII business end OF the continuance viii
reached into tho room did all the &c
our present stoves can accomplish
the cepting that they lost more heat tn
hat do these.
ere A little over century ago \
=, Street OF London took up the old
-. man idea of a hypocaust and made
49," furnace, which was warranted to wa
the all parts OF the house. to conserve
the heat and save the fuel and to Ov
hly. come all the objections against sto