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FIRE PREVENTION IN THE HOME 



The danger from lamps comes largely from leaving them 

 for a time, from dropping them when carrying them about, 

 and from filling them when lighted. Never leave a burn- 

 ing lamp in a room by itself for any length of time. Use 

 only lamps with metal reservoirs. Always fill lamps by 

 daylight. Keep the lamp always in good order. Obser- 

 vation of these simple rules will do much to prevent serious 

 fires. 



Fire dangers from heating devices. Disastrous fires 

 from chimneys, stoves, furnaces, and portable heaters 



are common. Perhaps most 

 deaths from burning come 

 from kindling fires in the 

 stove. Match heads or 

 lighted kindlings set the 

 clothing on fire. Scarcely 

 a week goes by that you 

 cannot find in the papers an 

 account that some one who 

 used kerosene to kindle the 

 fire was seriously, if not 

 fatally, burned. Kerosene 

 burns so easily it is never 

 safe to use it for starting a 

 fire. Hot stovepipes, the 

 heater itself, or hot air 

 ducts, if close to woodwork, 

 are fire hazards. Ashes are never safe when left loose on 

 the cellar floor, or in wooden receptacles. Metal con- 

 tainers are the only safe ones. 



Miscellaneous sources of fire. All celluloid articles 

 contain oxygen necessary for combustion within them- 



She had used kerosene oil to start her fire 

 432 times without harm. The picture 

 shows what happened on the 433d time. 



