Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . Those who have dependedin cooking and heating on the alcohol orother fuel brought with them, haveusually omitted heating except as it wasincidental to the cooking. They hadcunningly devised means for concen-trating the flame of either alcohol orkerosene stoves against the bottom ofthe pot, and if any heat escaped intothe house it was in spite of them. Whenthe cooking was done the stove waspromptly extinguished. We, by contrast,take no pains to concentrate our fireagainst the pot and are glad to have halfthe heat escape into the r
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . Those who have dependedin cooking and heating on the alcohol orother fuel brought with them, haveusually omitted heating except as it wasincidental to the cooking. They hadcunningly devised means for concen-trating the flame of either alcohol orkerosene stoves against the bottom ofthe pot, and if any heat escaped intothe house it was in spite of them. Whenthe cooking was done the stove waspromptly extinguished. We, by contrast,take no pains to concentrate our fireagainst the pot and are glad to have halfthe heat escape into the room, but evenat that our houses are seldom warmenough when the cooking is finished andwe burn the stove for some time after-ward. If the house was built at fiftybelow zero, each block in the wall wasalso of that temperature and containedwhat we may unscientifically speak of asa great deal of latent cold. To neu-tralize this it is necessary to keep thehouse at a temperature of about sixtydegrees Fahrenheit for a considerabletime, which we usually do. The snow.
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