Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and HappinessBeecher, Catharine Esther
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Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Cooking; Home economics
The mode of accomplishing this is by placing coils of steam, or
hot-water pipes, under windows, which warm the parlor walls and
furniture, partly by radiation, and partly by the air warmed on
the heated surfaces of the coils. At the same time, by regulating
registers, or by simply opening the lower part of the window, the
pure air, guarded from immediate entrance into the room, is admitted
directly upon the coils, so that it is partially warmed before it
spreads through the room; and thus cold draughts are prevented. Then
the vitiated air is drawn off through registers both at the top and
bottom of the room, opening into a heated exhausting-flue, through
which the constantly ascending current of warm air carries it off.
These heated coils are often used for warming houses without any
arrangement for carrying off the vitiated air, when, of course, their
usefulness is gone.
The moisture may be supplied by a broad vessel placed on or close to
the heated coils, giving a large surface for evaporation. When rooms
are warmed chiefly by radiated heat, the air can be borne much cooler
than in rooms warmed by hot-air furnaces, just as a person in the
radiating sun can bear much cooler air than in the shade. A time will
come when walls and floors will be contrived to radiate heat instead of
absorbing it from the occupants of houses, as is generally the case at
the present time, and then all can breathe pure and cool air.
We are now prepared to examine more in detail the modes of warming and
ventilation employed in the dwellings planned for this work.
In doing this, it should be remembered that the aim is not to give
plans of houses to suit the architectural taste or the domestic
convenience of persons who intend to keep several servants, and care
little whether they breathe pure or bad air, nor of persons who do not
wish to educate their children to manual industry or to habits of close
economy.
On the contrary, the aim is, first, to secure a house in which every
room shall be perfectly ventilated both day and night, and that too
without the watchful care and constant attention and intelligence
needful in houses not provided with a proper and successful mode of
ventilation.
The next aim is, to arrange the conveniences of domestic labor so as to
save time, and also to render such work less repulsive than it is made
by common methods, so that children can be trained to love house-work.
And lastly, economy of expense in house-building is sought. These
things should be borne in mind in examining the plans of this work.
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