The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-24
COMFORTS OF
ENGLISH HOMES
Some Things the Returned
American Misses and
Copies.

a New York woman VINO has been
living a good many years in London
has come back to live in her own city,
which she delights In, but she frankly
admits that she wishes that 1t would
adopt certain oIo-country cosey
ways" Flowers. CRATE fires, after
noon tea, hot water bottles, she emu
merated in explanation
1T seems TO me that we New YORK
ers should cultivate cosiness IN our
homes. Our homes are comfortable anu
beautiful. but they lack what some
body has called the middle Of the heart
atmosphere
Nothing, for instance, gives a more
charmingiy homelike touch TO room
than a CRATE fire. vet in most New
York homes a fire on the hearth Is
thing unseen, or so seldom seen as 70
be a novelty over which the family
viii exclaim-
Il remember an English woman say
ing to me. oh, shouldn't like to go
10 New York in the winter 1t hasn
IRE. I'm a fire worshiper- All oiu
Country people are, from the youngest
TO the Oldest We were having AFTER
noon tea before her fire, orlshIAs
glowing little affair that gave q cosey
cheer TO her drawing room II was
midwinter. I remember my back rei.
a bit cold and I had loyal tnougnI
for furnace and steam heater-out l
could not do anything but admit IN tiie
face of that fire that I could under
stand her feeling.
LAS we slipped tea together my nos
tess several times tended the nre- Once
she inserted a poker through the ga
into a part OF the Goals that nao sIOMn
dark. giving il little hoist tl.ae
the flame pass through the coal
left the poker sticking into the me-
where she had thrust it
we English know the use or the
poker, she said. laughing at my IN
terest. It's a national trait TO use -
as have lust now. I'd use 1t that way
with a wo&d fire, too. Often ali q os
needs to tt-n more brightly Is 2 olc Q.
a prop "a Set q draught about Il 'h3'
viii carry &he flame around IL
Undoubtedly the Britishers oeit-
ness in fro making and his inslstenoe
upon every convenience for the proSeo
being right at hand are due TO the i1ct
that the open fire in his nome l.
necessity. without it he'd freeze
our clumsiness in making q nre anu
our badly appointed hearths are
plained by the fact that we DO not
need crate fires 10 keep warh-
,,sAd 70 he fire worshipers IN Ih4S
county Look ar pictures OF oio 49,
lean life and see the family ora~H
about the CHEEKY blaze Win al IS
benefits, the furnace has roooeo
something very precious in taxing INC
fires from our hea-tns-
Its so becoming, too-ntrul II
to any ago from childhooo 70 "
age. No light IS more oecoHihs :.
pretty women. and yet how se4uOIl4 a
the pretty American woman seen =
fr TN Law a wager that most British
wocing is done before the open II
Wen. determined on 3 IRE wnen
I returned TO my native city ana :
have -one-not only on very colo oaS
but on all goldfish days and on osLlr'
cherries davs-such as we nave oeeH
having in the new kind OF
weather We have been treated 80 80
year. A FIRE dispels the gloom
heavy. damp. chilly atmosphere .e
American has forgotten this use u ~
This is my rule-have fire IN Ile
living rooms whenever there i
slightest excuse for one ana nlaii&s
registers so that the rooms VIII nese
be too warm II is easily done-aiio =
pays I am paid by my own sense %
cosiness and by the delight OF my
friends
II found that my American 80
was rather large for coal IRE Ior oaE
that were not especially cold No ~
wants TO waste coal or 10 have : oe
fire unless the room that II IS IN Ov
very big one. I made my CRATE snlal l.
nv Iaying a brick in IL ar each size anu
Era hack. I build the fire between the
bricks