Health in home and town . have a dish of water on the HOW TO WARM THE HOUSE 45 top of the stove to supply moisture to the air. It is nowonder that stoves have been discarded whenever possi-ble in favor of a heating apparatus located in the cellar. Heating with aFurnace. —Probablymore city dwellingsare heated by hot-air furnaces than inany other way. Ifyour house is heatedin this way, you canexamine the pipes inthe cellar, and cansee exactly how theheating is done. Theentire system con-sists of a cold-airbox, a furnace, asmoke-pipe, warm-air pipes, and regis-ters. The diagramshows the general a
Health in home and town . have a dish of water on the HOW TO WARM THE HOUSE 45 top of the stove to supply moisture to the air. It is nowonder that stoves have been discarded whenever possi-ble in favor of a heating apparatus located in the cellar. Heating with aFurnace. —Probablymore city dwellingsare heated by hot-air furnaces than inany other way. Ifyour house is heatedin this way, you canexamine the pipes inthe cellar, and cansee exactly how theheating is done. Theentire system con-sists of a cold-airbox, a furnace, asmoke-pipe, warm-air pipes, and regis-ters. The diagramshows the general arrangement of the different parts ina single house. The Cold-Air Box. — Cold air is taken to the furnace,heated, and then rises to all the rooms of the cold-air box is the long wooden or metal box in thecellar which carries the cold air to the furnace. Theouter opening is in one of the basement windows, andshould be covered with iron netting to keep out catsand waste paper. The inner end opens into the base. Heating with a Furnace 46 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN of the air-chamber of the furnace at the side or the is a slide or damper in the cold-air box to regulatethe amount of air admitted. The Furnace. — The furnace should stand near thecenter of the cellar, so that the heat may reach all ofthe rooms of the house. The furnace is double, and liketwo cylinders, one inside of the other, but entirelyseparate. The cold-air box opens into the outer cylin-
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