The weather strip not only keeps the cold air out but actually by not admitting the cold air allows the heated air inside to maintain the moisture necessary for comfort. With the admission of cold air the moisture is precipitated from the air and we have not got the proper humidity necessary to be happy. The moisture in the home comes from water evaporation in kitchen lavatories, air itself which comes in, etc. The warm air can carry the humidity, but the cold air does not do it as well, and when it strikes the warm air the latter is forced to condense. Comfort is the main thing in the home, even more sometimes than saving fuel bills. “Comfort,” says Professor Allen in an address, “is the prime consideration, more than maintaining a definite temperature. Getting the temperature right brings comfort. We should aim at 40% to 50% of moisture in the winter with 68 to 70 degrees.” The fact is that the heating engineer to-day allows for about ¹⁄₃ more heating area when the house is not weather stripped. And then, sad to relate, at this consequent extra expense the house will be probably unevenly heated, because some rooms will have big window and door leaks and other rooms little leaks, so there will be overheating in some rooms and underheating in others. Another engineer said, “I have caught snow in my hand at a distance of two feet from a tightly locked window in a house supposed to have better than ordinary construction. “What ... can better this condition? Weather strips, metal weather strips....” He also said in the same address on heating the home that the builder did all he could do, with the materials he had. So there is the dilemma! The storm window can often be obviated by weather strips. The storm window is much more of a nuisance than the appliquéd weather strips. Who wants to add another set of windows to be cleaned? And who enjoys the manipulation of them in rush moments of storm and wind? FOR WIND, DUST AND NOISE The weather strip is the solution of the gale exposed home, of the noise, dust and weather exposed home, of any home with windows at all. It is not subject to depreciation but increases in value, and as the house depreciates the weather stripping takes on the burdens of the ever increasing depreciation and prevents any more rapid fuel consumption, keeps down the dust infiltrations and lessens the cleaning bills. If, by chance, the woodwork is still obstreperous the defect can always be corrected, if a good brand of stripping has been used. In other words, weather strips are a good investment. Good weather strips, like any good material, are a good investment. Much of our trouble with the heat in our homes comes from the impossibility of even heating. Do what he will, the furnace man cannot seem to heat the house. Often you say: “Why do you burn so much coal and give us so little heat?” There may be other causes, but the lack of weather stripping is very prone to be one. QUIET AND CLEANLINESS