The acme magazine . lders do not understand theproper construction of this pit. It iseasy to make it with a draft that willsend the ashes out into the room above,but this is a stupid inexcusable is necessary to have an opening in thebottom to remove the ashes once or twicea year, but it is very easy to put in anairtight door to shut this opening. Ifthe air cannot enter at the bottom therecan be no draft. Of course it would be easier andsave a great deal of annoyance after-wards to see that a proper door is pro-vided when the chimney is built; but ifa person is determined to have c
The acme magazine . lders do not understand theproper construction of this pit. It iseasy to make it with a draft that willsend the ashes out into the room above,but this is a stupid inexcusable is necessary to have an opening in thebottom to remove the ashes once or twicea year, but it is very easy to put in anairtight door to shut this opening. Ifthe air cannot enter at the bottom therecan be no draft. Of course it would be easier andsave a great deal of annoyance after-wards to see that a proper door is pro-vided when the chimney is built; but ifa person is determined to have comfortin a house they will find some means tocarry out the provisions to secure it. Theprice of comfort is forethought with con-siderable subsequent determination. Such houses as this may be built toadvantage in any of the smaller a place gets a population of halfa million or so there is no room for cot-tage houses except in the suburbs, andthese places sometimes are not as accessi-ble as they should
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