Las Vegas optic., 1914-11-09
ELECTRIC FANS A
GOOD WINTER
AID
THEY CAN BE PUT TO MANY
USES EVEN WHEN THE TEM-
PERATURE is COOL

There is no excuse for the electric
fan to be idle during the colder days
OF fall and winter when cooling
breeze is not required. There is a
wide variety of useful work suitable
for every fan motor every month of
the year, winter as well as summer
II is now quite common for store
keepers to use electric fans to keep
frost from their display windows. At
a recent fire in a chemical store at
Boston, electric fans were used to
drive out the deadly fumes from the
cellar SO the firemen could success
fully fight the blaze. Dozens of new
and novel uses of the fan are an
nouneed every year
The electric fan makes one of the
best pentilators imaginable. Open
any window crack and place the fan
so it will blow the air outdoors and
it will free the living room of stale
air, the kitchen from cooking odors,
the cellar from mouldy, damp smells,
etc. 1t will drive out impure air and
suck in fresh air, it will effectively
stir up and revive the air in any room.
If the fam is placed so it will blow
upon the steam or hot water radiator
! it will distribute the heat to all parts
Of the ROOM and insure an even tenn
perature.
Kidding the bath room Of damp and
odor after bathing is another useful
task that the electric fan will perform
for the housekeeper. The window
should be open and the door shut
while the fan is in operation so that
the stale air is not driven into the
other parts of the house. In winter
this process is especially beneficial
The steam and vapor arising from the
water will condense when the temper
ature of the bath room falls and this
moisture will soil, tarnish or other
wise damage papering, fittings or fur
niture.
The mustiness of pantry or cup
boards may be eliminated by the same
means. Let the fan run for a few
minutes on the sill of an open win
dow to bring the supply of fresh all
into the room Then set it inside the
pantry or cupboard to blow outwardly
In brief space the odor or mustiness
that may otherwise communicate
themselves t. ones food will disap
pear. nj
Some people owningga hot air heat
er have experienced trouble at times
in obtaining sufficient warmth in one
room or another. 1t may be due tC
the direction of the wind or to a fault
in the inclination of the distributing
pipes. To open the cold air duct only
m1nlmizes the difficulty. A 12-incI
fan, placed where it will blow into
this duct, will force the heated all
through every pipe and solve a very
unpleasant problem. While the far
is thus operated the outside inlet oi
the cold air duct may be closed, as
the air of most Easements is suffic
iently clean and fresh to be used, with
occasional renewals from out Of doors
The woman who has an electric fan
wash and dry her hair in less thar
half the time that required to do ii
in the old way She simply. wrings
the water from it, rubs her head
brisl1ly with a towel and then slts
comfortably in front of the fan, which
should be set so that it will blow over
and across a radiator or register.
Do not store away the electric fan
for the winter. There is plenty oi
work for it and the cost Of current
is insignificant.
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