Milford chronicle., 1891-10-16
&c CHIMNEY QUESTION.
BE sure That the Main FIue Is Free from
Troublesome Angles.

BE Sure That the Main Flue Is Free from
Troublesome Angles.
The chimney question is still an unsatis-
factory problem in domestic architecture.
How absolutely essential it is that the
flame on the family altar" as some one
not unaptly calls the central open chimney
around which the inmates Of the house
chiefly congregate, should burn with o
clear steady brightness, undimmed by
Rinoke or inadequate draft Of air Yet
how often it occurs that the very fireplace
that the new householder fondly fancied
would be the centre and attraction OF the
dwelling has proved to be smoky, cranky
and altogether unmanngeable-a chimney
that must be humored managed, worked
over and helped out with this and that de
vice for stopping the smoky turns TO which
il is liable, until the owner is fairly yexed
to death over the peryersity which really
seems an intelligent maIiciousness and
fully accounts for the kObolds and house
hold spirits Of the old legends.
One very obvious and practical reason,
however, for smoky chimneyis a crooked
flue. Make 1t straight, right up to the
blue sky, and II there Is no roOfage to in
terfere you will never have any trouble
Your architect or builder will constantly
tell you that to adjust itself to this Or that
bit Of architecture your lue may be car.
ried this way or that way with perfect
safety and yet, in nine cases out Of ten,
where this Is done It will smoke.
In one very handsome house that cost
many thousand dollars the main chimney
was thus carried away from its course to
suit some picturesque angle in the floor
above. and every time a fire was lit In the
noble fireplace in the great hall the whole
house was filed with smoke, so that finally
~ tlse-;1le -s-tls ts from the second story up
had to be built over again. This, Of course,
involved taking down almost the whole
chimney.
If however, it Is simp4 impossible, as is
sometimes the case, to run up a straight
and perpendicular hue, remember at all
events that there must be no angles, that
the fue must be curved in the direction in
in which it is to 20.
Architects are frequently great tyrants
in the matter Of placing and construction
Of chimneys and many one who is build
ing new house has had to give up some
cherished fancy about n particular ingle-
nook on account Of the pros and cons
raised by the architect. "We are going
to build our house." said a young woman
to an old aunt of the family who lived in
one Of the few memorial houses left stand
ing on the Hudson. I'VE are leaving It
all to Mr. R., our architect, but there is
one thing wish to copy eEactly, and that
Is Ghe great fireplace in the hall here"
And so she brought her architect, took
all the measurements Of the ample hearth
and chimney seats and departed. A year
later, when she was living IN the com
pleted house her aunt paid her visit, and
her first thought on entering the hall was
70 look for the fireplace There she saw
small tidy affair, pretty, it is true, but the
very reverse Of the dear old family gather
ing place in her own house. why, Belle"
she said to her niece, ''where Is your fire
placer Il never got it, after all, )" pouted
the other, half laughing. 'Mr. R grad
ually talked me out of it, said this would
be so much more in keeping, and so on,
and now have got what do not want at
all and have not got what do want"
The number is legion Of just such cases
as this, and it is very seldom in building
house that one gets just what he most de
sires to have.-New York Tribune.
HI tempered Women, Read This.
10 is a common thing for person to
apologize for an irritable, i'll tempered
woman, on the ground that she Is nervous,
as II an unseemly display Of temper was
perfectly consistent with Christian charac
ter, providing the individual could offer
the plea Of NERVES" There are, as every
one knows abnormal conditions of the |
physical system, when the nerves are not |
under the control Of the mind, and the suf |
ferer Is to be excused for all kinds fs1h