The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
Household Hints


Unless one is living in an apart
ment, where providing such neces-
sary item as heat is of no moment ex-
cept to the janitor, some considera-
ton should be given to winter heat
ing comforts.
Being a woman, my thoughts imme-
diately turn to the trials and tribula-
tions that are imposed upon US, or
rather on those OF us who live in sep
arate houses, by our friendly enemy,
the furnace. | have 1een told there
is a furnace which needs no attention
once the hopper has been filled in the
morning, but ours is not this kind
Instead, all my experience is based
on the small mouth and large stom-
ach variety. Such 8 furnace, if it is
not yawning for fuel, needs more
draft, or if it has fuel and draft, then
the latter needs to be checked. Never
day passed that did not make at
least three trips to the cellar.
So one day out of sheer desperation
went in search of relief. As is near
ly always true when one is truly seek
ing-I found it. I found an electric
furnace stoker which would solve the
problem, so far as / was concerned,
of coaling the furnace and also fur
Their eliminate trips to the cellar to
regulate the furnace. At the end of
my search l reached home very tired,
but very determined to convince my
better half of our need for both these
devices.
Inasmuch as the electric furnace
stoker, beside relieving ME, promised
to simplify Mr.. Davidson's furnace
work, it required even less skill and
effort to convert him to the advisable
ity of our acquiring one.
So far it has fired our furnace
throughout one winter and we have
found it altogether worth while, so
much SO, in fact, that thought other
housewives with similar troubles
might appreciate knowing about it.
The stoker is an electrically OPP
Grated device which performs all the
duties ordinarily done by the furnace
man-putting coal on the fire, keep
ing it burning brightly and clearing
ashes from the ash pit. This last par
ticularly appealed to Mr.. Davidson.
After it had been installed about q
week he remarked that this would
doubtless be the first winter since
We moved into a house that he would
go to business feeling clean.
But this is by no means all of the
electric stoker's accomplishments.
Besides reducing both of our work
with the furnace, it also makes posi-
because with it we can burn pea,
buckwheat, rice or barley coal which
costs a great deal less than the ordi-
nary sizes of furnace coal. For ex-
ample, our yearly coal bill, before
we acquired the stoker, ran about two
hundred dollars, while last year, burn
ing the same amount of Euckwheat
coal, fifteen tons only cost less than
500.
The Heat Regulator.
The effort the stoker saved us in
shoveling coal and emptying ashes,
the heat regulator amplified in ending
our trips TO the cellar. The device is
remarkable in that it not only elimi-
mates the necessity for having to go
down to the cellar to regulate the fur
mace, but also because it makes it
possible to maintain an even temper
allure. All that one is required to do
is to set the clock when heat is to be
increased or decreased and the de-
vice does the work. Anyone who has
ever pottan nm mt nf 4 warm had a4
5 or o'clock in the morning and
gone down to the cellar to open up the
furnace SO the house might be warm
when the kiddies and the wife were
ready to rise will appreciate the lux
ury of having this device.