Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-16
HEATING A HOUSE.

Csnsumpsioa Of faci IL Not the Only
Consideration In Keeping Warm.
How best TO keep house warm Is
question that every cold and biting
"wave" forces upon the attention OF
many a housekeoper. People gcnor.
ally imagine that with those towhom
economy in fuel is no great object
the problem Is simple enough and is
only question Of using moro or less
coal. As matter Of fact, however
the consumption Of fuel is not tho
only chief factor; tho exclusion Of
cold and understanding how fully to
utilize the heat obtained by tho vari.
Gus fires Is quite IA important The
Importance of tho former aids 10
warmth In house Is well exempll-
fed In those northern countries where
necessity is tho law OF existence and
where we read OF tho Grrenlnnder's
hut with nn inside temperature of 90
dogs, the only fire being from piece
of walIus fat, while outside II 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 tho better, no doubt. Whole.
some ventilation is Of vast impor.
lance. but II should enter our houses
through the channels provided for
II, and not under tho 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 OK.
posed, have but a 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, tho subject is very serious
one.
In tho west II 10 n common custom
20 bank earth around the house to tho
depth Of several feet, and n single
foot Of manure placed in this way
adds greatly TO the warmth besides
aifording protection TO the vines and
plants. In old houses whose win.
dow castings and door lintels have be.
come loose and shrunlion tiny strips
of felt put on with long, slender
'brads" will be found very effica.
cious and IL cut extremely narrow
are quite unnoticeable and can be put
in many places where 1t would not DO
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.
sivoly that each one is the best.
People themselves, too, differ great.
ly as TO what is tho best method OF
heating house, some prcferring
the hot air furnace, which seems,
on the whole, to be more popular
than any other continuance, and
others finding steam or hot water
more satisfactory. There is. this al
ways to DO remembered, however,
no hot air furnace will carry heat sat
isfactorily through pipo running
any distance in n lateral direction.
For a rambling house, therefore,
where there is but one furnace, hot
WATER or steam viii give Il more diff
fused heat. The somewhat primitive
but most effective base burning stove
will DO found capital supplement to
the hot air furnace, and IL arranged
with "drum" and u register in the
floor above will be nearly us eflica.
cious as u second furnace.
Modern science has also managed
tc utilize tho waste heat from down
stairs open frcplaces in the rooms
above in the most admirable fashion,
making every fire heat second
room rs well as the one in which 1t /,
laid; and when one considers thG
amount Of precious warmth, not &c
say actual money, that goes up the
chimney in smoke, II would seem thai
there is n great field for further i'm
provement still in practically utiliz
ing escaping heat,