The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-04

knocking at the zero uoor anu the pees work of the home furnace is required to keen the house comfortable, the sugges- fions of the Philadelphia Ledger will be read with interest by those who have the chief care of these comforts to mod- ern civilization, though it might be re- marked that in Connecticut house wives'' are not the persons customarlly burdened with this care.
 As the Ledger well says, ''the econorn- icaI management of a furnace is an art in itself." and much of the playful en- joyment of home depends upon the 'ar- tist" who is unfortunate enough to have entire charge of it. The article follows: It is a common experience with house. wives at this season to find themselves with smarting eyes and choking breath. All this because of the smoke, dust and sometimes gas that pours through the registers when the furnace fires are first lighted.
 If the furnace isAin good condition this annoyance will not rise, it being caused by some crack or faulty seam in the inner lining of the furnace. Dust and fine ashes escape through such cracks and fill the pipes that convey the heat ed air to the registers. The easy reme- dy for this annoyance is 3. clean cellar and 8 furnace in perfect ondition. 4 room in which there is no escape for | the air will always be hard to heat. The more closely the doors and wirl- 1 dow easements fit, the greater the diffi- culty, unless there is in the room some other outlet-a fireplace or transom over the door The warm air from the reg ister will not freely enter a room where there is no such opening to cause a ! draught, and cold rooms may often be cured by applying the principle of not to rigidly barring all entrances for the I cold.
 It used to be that the careful house. wife regarded filling the water-pan as a daty imperatively necessary to the health of the household. The water pan is placed in the air chambers of the furnace, the evaporation of the water | in it supplying to the air issuing from the register that moisture supposed to be hygienic necessity. This theory has been largely discounted by modern authorities n matters of this kind. t Ilie WdTIils IflOlSL dtlllOSPl1CIE pIGNdiilttSs in houses where the water-pan is al- ways filled tends to keep opened the pores of the skin, thus causing q ten- dency to cold. and being liable to pro- duce the enervating effects inevitably found in hot, moist climates. Dry warmed air is more healthy, providing always that 1t is free from dust and is supplied to the furnace from the outside of the house--not owing to leaks or bad fly adjusted fittings supplied from the cellar.
 | The economical management of a fur naee Is an art in itself. An imperfectly
 heated house may too often prove an
 expensive luxury when the amount
 spent upon doctors fees is placed against the money saved upon the coa
 bill An extremely hot house is equal. Fly unhealthy, however; parsimony and
 extravaganza in this respect may bt
 bracketed together as things to be reli-
 giously avoided during the winter.
 he thrifty housewife has long appre.
 ciated that to secure the most ejcien
 results the firepot should be filled witt
 coal which is kept burning under z ' IllQAGIdLC 0IrtG ( AtskA tstl s oli1e@At moderately heated will warm greater
 quantity of air passing over 1t than 2
 small space, which, though 1t be rec
 hot. can inuence only an amount of ali in proportion to its size In addition tt this, a small hot fire may prove {
 sourde of additional expense by crack
 ing the firepot or other breakages oi
 this description,
 A old hall on the first floor is very of
 ten the result of misplaced register
 The cold air, entering by means of doors
 or staircases, blows over the iron place counteracting the force of the warm cur,
 rent from the furnace below A hal
 register should always be built under
 the staircase, where it will be protected
 from draughts coming from any direc.
 tion When 1t is impossible to change
 the opening to such a sheltered posi-.
 ton, the warming of the halls may bs
 greatly helped out by placing chair O
 a table before it to protect it as far al possible from the draughts from dool
 and stairs.
 European tourists have seen and prob
 ably wondered at the curious "gil
 stoves" used to supply heat for tn,
 English cathedras. No simpler ol
 more satisfactory device can be fount
 to solve the problem of warming larg,
 house, for which the heating capacity Q
 the average furnace is inadequate Tn, heated air which blows through tn
 registers of our houses is made by tn, contact of cold air passing over a ho | furnace The Iarppr tfa s11rfane f1,l