472 On the Construction of Kitchen 



It is right that the reader should be informed that 

 although I have made use of stoppers to close the 

 passage into each of the closed fire-places in my own 

 kitchen, yet very few persons have adopted this simple 

 and cheap contrivance. The reason why it has not 

 come into more general use might easily be explained ; 

 but I fancy it will be best that I should say nothing 

 now on that subject. Instead of recommending what 

 nobody would find much advantage in furnishing at 

 a fair price, it will be more wise and prudent to give a 

 short description of a more complicated, more elegant, 

 and more expensive contrivance, which has already 

 found its way into the shops of several of the most 

 respectable ironmongers in London. As this contriv- 

 ance has often been used, and has always been found 

 to answer perfectly well, I can venture to recommend 

 it to all those to whom an additional expense of a few 

 shillings or a guinea or two in fitting up a kitchen is 

 not considered as an object of importance. 



A short Description of a DOUBLE DOOR for a closed 

 Fire-place. 



The following figure (which is drawn to a scale of 

 6 inches to the inch) represents a horizontal section 

 of one of these double doors, and also of a part of the 

 brick-work in which it is set. 



A is the inside door, and B is the outside door. 

 These doors are so connected by means of a crooked 

 rod of iron/; and the two joints g and h, that when the 

 outside door is opened or shut the inside door is neces- 

 sarily opened or shut at the same time. The inside 

 door, which is of cast iron and near an inch in thick- 



