74 THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF HEAT 



it still was true that a short distance from the fireplace the 

 room was so cold as to be quite unendurable to us today. 

 There are plenty of records to show that it was not uncommon 

 for ink to freeze upon the pen even as the recorder wrote his 

 diary at the chimney side. "One noted, that when a great 

 fire was built upon the hearth, the sap which was forced out 

 of the wood by the flames froze into ice at the ends of the logs." 

 " President John Adams so dreaded the bleak New England 



FIG. 65. A winter's service at church. 



(Copyright, 1900, by Curtis Publishing Company, and reproduced by courtesy 

 of the Ladies' Home Journal.} 



winter and the ill-warmed houses that he longed to sleep like a 

 dormouse every year, from autumn to spring. " (Home Life in 

 Colonial Days, Earle.) 



All through the days of the colonies and for a half century 

 following the Revolutionary War, the churches of New England 

 were entirely without heat. The men sat throughout the long 

 forenoon and afternoon services wrapped in overcoats and 

 wearing their warmest mittens and footwear. The women 



