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A Useful Item

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
February
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

-Perhaps one of the nost aggra vating üimculties ever encoun;ered by a busy housewife is that of atiending the lighting of fires on still, damp mornings. The stove at first won't draw; even vigorous "blowing" wül not suflice; and then when it does start, it is with a sort of explosión or outward rush of air which filis the room with ginoko and gas, oftentimes puffing the unpleasant fumes in the face of the operator. The trouble is caused by the difficulty encountered in overcomingthe inertia of the long column of air in the pipe orchimney, by the small column of air that can be torced up thro' tho interstices of wood and coal, at tho bottom of which tho fire is kindled. All this may bo remedied by simply putting a few shavings or bits of dry paper on the top of tho wood or coal, and first lighting that. It immediately bursts into a blaze, because tho air has perfectly free access to it from all sides, the heated air forces its way in the chimnoy, ond establishes there an upward cavrent. The match can then be rpplied to tho kindling under the fuel, which will readily light, and, if dry.burst into a brisk rlam!

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus