1886.] on the Principles of Domestic Fireplace Construction, 353 



of artificial asbestos at the bottom of an asbpan would render any 

 heartb safe. Sucb an asbpan may be named a " Hearth Protector." 

 Another caution should be given against erecting one of these im- 

 proved fireplaces where there is no projecting chimney breast, lest 

 there should be insufficient depth of brick between the back of the 

 fire and the woodwork of a room at the other side. 



" Kitchen Refuse.'' — In some households there are certain portions 

 of kitchen refuse which are apt to find their way into the dust-bin, 

 instead of the pig-tub. You here see the remains of refuse, con- 

 sisting of celery stalks, potato parings, &c., which have been roasted 

 in a wire cage underneath my kitchen fire in the chamber closed by 

 the " Economiser." The wire cage is necessary to allow the heat to 

 reach the under surface of the refuse. 



Having now for four years done my best to persuade the public 

 to take measures in reference to fireplaces which will confer upon 

 them a saving in the cost of fuel, a saving in the labour of servants, 

 an increase in the warmth and comfort of rooms, a lessening of the 

 soot in the atmosphere of towns, and a i)ossibility of reduction of 

 scavsr ging rates, it is no little satisfaction to feel that my views are 

 at last making way, and acquiring a momentum of their own ; and I 

 an encouraged to hope that the time is not far distant when the 

 Committees of Public Institutions, and the Directors of Eailway 

 Companies, following the example of the Weekly Board of the 

 Leeds Infirmary, will feel it their duty to weigh their value, and, if 

 they prove true, to adopt them; and perhaps even the Smoke Abate- 

 ment Society may be induced, as discharging a function for which it 

 exists, to put them to the test of scientific experiment. 



It only remains for me now to bring my address to a conclusion 

 with the words of the Eoman Shakespeare, — 



" Nonfumim exfulgore, seel ezfumo dare luceni." 



HoR. Aks, Poet. 



— which I will translate in the words of one of our greatest Latin 

 scholars, the late Professor Conington, 



" Not smoke from fire my object is to bring, 

 But fire from smoke, a very different thing 



[T. P. T.] 



