Evening star., 1935-10-26
BY LUCIE EBERLY.

be here, and judging by gos-
sip about his nimble son,
Jack Frost, who has been
reported seen committing between
country and town, he cannot be very
far away! And so, before we realize it,
the heating plant will be going full
blast and once more We will find our
selves coping with proper temperature
ventilation and humidification-or,
perhaps most distressing of all, wall
smudge. and the sight of our lovely
new drapes becoming soiled and drab
looking after a week or so of furnace
heati
OF course, II you are among the for
tunate home owners who have been
able to install one of those cooling sys-
TENS that controls the atmospheric
conditions of your home the year
around, you are not going to be dis
turbed in the least by any of the
aforementioned problems-you can
rest assured that you and your family
will have a comfortable" Winter-and,
may we add, a healthy one as we'll
because practically 80 per cent Of
Winter colds and ailments are con-
tracted in overheated and ill-venti-
lated atmosphere. Even your furni-
ture, plants and walls are going to
have an easier Winter-it is the drying
heat, you know, that makes furniture
crack and loosen, plants wither and
die and wallpaper crack and come top
pling down!
THERE is, however, no reason why
homes that have not been blessed
with such a modern and expensive
plant cannot be made equally COM
Portable and healthful. 1t can, as a
matter of fact, be very simply and
inexpensively done by equipping all
radiators with properly-built Enclosures
Enclosures that have small humidi-
f1ers secreted in the back, on the sides,
or underneath the top pieces of the
cover. This arrangement provides
an efficient little air-conditioning
plant for every room. With the rising
temperature the heated air Is supplied
with the moisture it needs to keep us
comfortable and healthy.
Installation of radiator covers to the
average person may still seem to- be
just another extravagance-aside from
the decorative beauty and wall pro-
lection, you may say, they are not to
be considered. Almost every one was
of this opinion until year or so ago,
when 1t was discovered that rooms
equipped with radiator Enclosures
seemed to be much easier to heat
and the temperature remained at d
more even degree. This discovery
prompted many experiments and it
was eventually explained that radi-
ator covers help to condense the heat
and reflect it into the breathing level
of the room rather than up the wall
and to the ceiling, as is the case when
no shield or cover Is used on radi-
ators.
TT WAS, however, at the same time
brought out by one of our fore
most research engineers at West
ern university that radiator Enclosures
to be most efficient must be properly
built. They must, to prove effective
and economical, be built so as to
allow the heat from the radiator to
escape freely. They should be so
constructed as to insure sufficient cir
inlet and outlet. That is why the
covers are, and should always be,
made with perforated grillework at
the front and on the sides. This al
lows the maximum amount Of heat
to circulate or reflect into the room.
A solidly built inclosure, aside from
its decorative beauty, is absolutely in
efficient-in fact, 1t is a real extrava-
gance, for It chokeS the heat and
therefore defeats its most important
purpose.
ALI custom built Enclosures should