Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-02
HEATING A HOUSE.

 Consumption of Fuel k Not tho Only
 Consideration in Keeping Warm.
 How best to keep a house warm is a question that every cold and biting "wave' forces upon the attention of many housekeeper People gener- ally imagine that with those to whom economy in fuel is no great object the problem is simple enough and is only question of using more or less coal. As matter of fact, however, tho consumption of fuel is not the only chief factor; the exclusion of cold and understanding how fully to utilize the heat obtained by the vari- ous fires is quite as important, The importance of the former aids to warmth in a house is well eXempli- fled in those northern countries where necessity is the law of existence and where we read of the Greenlander's hut with an inside temperature of 90 degs. the only fire being from q piece of walrus fat while outside it may be 40 degs below zero
 We would find, however, but few advocates of this degree Of exclusion of fresh air and ventilation, and the fewer the better, no doubt Whole some ventilation is of vast impor, tance, but it should enter our houses through the channels provided for it, and not under the doors and through the window joints People who reside in town and are protected by their neighbors on either side, with only the front and rear e&- posed, have but simple problem to encounter But to those who live in the country in frame houses, whose defenseless walls are exposed in ev- cry direction to the cutting wintry blasts, the subject is very serious one
 In the west 1t is a common custom to bank earth around the house to the depth of several feet and a single foot of manure placed in this way adds greatly to the warmth besides affordmg protection to the vines and plants. In old houses whose win dow casings and door hntels have be come loose ard shrunken tiny strips of felt put on with long, slender
 'brads" will be found very effica- cious, and if cut extremely narrow are quite unnoticeable and can be put in many places where it would not be possible to insert weather strips
 In heating, furnaces are of course the chief factors. Of these there are many kinds, and we are told success sively that each one is the best. People themselves, too, differ great ly as to what is the best method of heating a house, some preferring the hot air furnace, which seems, on the whole to be more popular than any other contrivance, and others finding steam or hot water more satisfactory There IS this al ways to be remembered, however no hot air furnace will carry heat sat isfactorily through a pipe running any distance in a lateral direction
 For a rambling house, therefore, where there is but one furnace, hot water or steam will give a more diff fused heat The somewhat primitive but most effective base burning stove will be found a capital supplement to the hot air furnace, and if arranged with q drum" and a register in the floor above will be nearly as effica- cious as a second furnace.
 Modern science has also managed to utilize the waste heat from down stairs open fireplaces in the rooms above in the most admirable fashion, making every fire heat q second room as well as the one in which it is laid; and when one considers the amount of precious warmth, not to say actual moSey, that goes up the chimney in smoke, it would seem that there is a great field for further i'm proyement still in practically utili2 ing escaping heat New York Trib une