Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-19

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mas there's going to be something
With the setting in of cold weather
Jane was seized with an attack of
contraction" She took the dining
room for kitchen and the sitting
room downstairs. where had a library
table and a comfortable chair and d
few books, and which was my retreat
and place of refuge, is now the family
sitting room. Two bedrooms. instead
of three. are being used. Jane con-
tended. with unanswerable logic, that
it was foolish to heat so many rooms,
when each room heated had to have
separate stove and involved the
building OF separate fire.
Limit on Wood Stoves.
We thought we had never found any
thing in the heating line quite SO con-
venient as the air-tight wood-burning
stoves. which neither of US had ever
seen until we came to the country.
They are convenient. there isn't any
doubt of that, when you want to start
a fire and get room warmed UP quick.
But they have two drawbacks. One
Is that they have to be replenished con-
stantly all day long and the other
is that they don't keep a room warm
over night. When ] got chance to.
buy secondhand hard coal stove at
bargain, therefore, l snapped it up.
AS 1t is base-burner, 1 can fill the
hopper in the morning and Jane doesn't
have to bother with the fire all day
long. Another advantage is that it
heats an upstairs room almost as well
as 1t does the one downstairs. There
is second pipe which carries the heat
up through hole in the floor and it is
radiated from a drum in the room
above. This keeps our bedroom COM
fortably warm all night, and it is con-
siderably different from crawling out
IN the cold these mornings and build
ing f1re. As a matter of fact, so
far as the dining room and our bed
room are concerned, we are as COM
Portable as we ever were in a steam
heated fiat.
from so much fire building in the morn
ing. The boys have no stove in their
room and we don't start fire in the
sitting room stove until evening, so the
Kitchen range Is the only thing to which
have to give attention now. Part Of the
time we keep fire in that over night, and
then don't have any morning fire build
ing to do at ALL
Question Of Heat Important.
If you are wearied by these apparent
triviahties. you are at perfect liberty to
skip them. 1 have discussed the matter
in detail because 1 find that, since the
gardening season ended and the weather
has grown cold. more people are interest
ed in the subject of heat than in any
other phase of country life. About every
second person we meet asks how we
manage to keep comfortable in a house
which has no furnace; and isn't it a
terrible hardship to get up and build
fires on cold mornings?
Nor, to me, is there anything strange
in this interest. person who lives In
the city and is thinking of ever going to
the country certainly wants to know
about heat in the winter. No matter
how manifold the pleasures of country
life in the summer. they couldn't be
Of absolute discom ort from cold
I'll say frankly that it's lot different
from a steam heated fiat, where all the
man OF the house has to do is to grum-
Bile at the janitor. 1t is different, too
from city house with furnace-espe-
cially If the furnace conducts itself as a
well behaved furnace should. When you
get up on zero morning and find the
urnace fire has gone out-weil, that's
something else again" l reckon most
any man, under such circumstances,
would hail one Of our wood burning
stoves as a blessing.
Egg Basket Is Full.
If eggs keep up to their present price,
Jane is simply going to be rolling in
wealth pretty soon. The way those pull
lets of hers are laying is caution. She
is getting sixty cents dozen for all
she has to sell, and she could sell sew
eral times as many more at the same
price.
Since we trapped the possum that had
been stealing our hens we have no fur
Their losses In that direction. but the pride
of our flock, handsome Plymouth Rock
cockerel. is no more. When we took an
inventory Of our stock we had valued
him at SIS. several times as much as
any other single bird. but that didn't
save his head from going to the block
When I got home the other night he
was in solitary confinement, condemned
to death, and I was instructed to go
straight forth and execute the sentence.
demurred and pleaded for pardon.
or, at least, a stay Of Judgment: but the
court was adamant. He had to die, Jane
declared, and he had to die that very
night.
one and well merited death. Margery.
it seems, went to the chicken house I'M
hidden IN search of eggs, and was at
several times, once SO close to one of
her eyes that it was by the narrowest
of margins that she escaped being blind
ed. Jane heard her screams, and when
she went to the rescue the cockerel
turned on her, flying up at her face and
trying to hit her with his spurs.
/ Had Been Family Pet.
It was the first time had ever heard