The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24

of cooking to be considered in the mat ter of kitchen ventilation This alone is worth the small cost of the fan many times over for it is surely a poor com mentary modern home building that with all it's conveniences and comforts, it's refinements and extravagances, it IS still unable to protect itself against the cabbage and the caulflower, the saul sage and the steak. It has gone so far that we all have come to feel that we
 can only enjoy these good, honest, wholesome, sensible delicious foods sur reptitiously, when we expect no guests to enter the house. Yet all that is need ed to work complete and permanent cure is just electric exhaust fan in the kitchen. With it come two other bene- fits at the same time; first. better work
 ing conditions for the cook through i'm proved ventilation and less heat in sum- mertime, and second, a real saving to decorations. hangings and furniture throughout the house by eliminating the fumes, smoke and soot which inevitably work their way from the cookstove throughout the house and gradually de-
 posit film of grease everything on which, of course. dust settles and dirt clings, ruining colors, fabrics and wall- papers. Every one of us can recall tra- gic instances of kitchen accidents that took their toll in other parts of the house. I remember one time when car
 amel ice cream was cooking on our stove and boiled over, a cloud of black. smoke blew into the house and as a re- suit the dining-room curtains had to be sent to the cleaners In a friends house an oil-stove smoked and the greasy Soot was all over the house before it was dis covered. The coal range throws off dust from ashes that settles everywhere. Ceilings are blackened Paint is dulled. In short, it is bad in many ways It should be prevented. And it can be pre- vented in this very simple way.
 FAN EASILY INSTALLED
 , The exhaust fan may be installed in any kitchen. Sometimes square open ing is cut in the wall into which the fan fits. Sometimes a section of the up-
 per sash of a window is taken out 10 avoid the cutting of the wall, Often the fan is fitted into a direct flue leading from the hood over the range into the chimney, All three of these methods are shown in the pictures. To prevent the entrance of cold air into the kitchen when the fan is not in use, a shutter IS installed that opens automatically when
 the fan is in operation. blown open by the blast of air. This protection may be made doubly tight by fitting a little
 storm sash the outside but this is not necessary except in very exposed | locations. The fan need be running only tDOul tDItt IOuTS d Qdy-dH nOuT | the cooking of each meal-and the cost
 will not exceed three cents a day. On wash days. when clothes are boiling on l the stove. it will be running all the | time the clothes are on the fire and for this alone the fan will pay for itself, for the odor of boiling clothes is the worst | that comes out of the kitchen.
 I This is the only way to secure intel | ligent, effective ventilation in the home | You cannot ventilate a kitchen through | the windows alone. If the wind Is blow 1 ing from the wrong direction the opening | of a kitchen window means that every
 kitchen smell is blown into the house. or the draught interferes with the cook l ing, or the cold air is too much for the overloaded cook, or there is no breeze at all and the open window does not ventilate particle. An ordinary breeze | fan designed for cooling purposes does not ventilate, because it merely stifs the
 air about and does not carry it away
 unless 1t stands in an open window and