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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 28, 1022 
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Everyone loves an open lire. It ts 
companion, comfort nut! ,‘-friend: Yet 
there are innnv who think they cannot 
enjoy an open tire because they fear the 
house has no place for it, Our old friend. 
Clark Allis of Orleans County, X. Y., 
thinks he has solved this problem, for 
he has built a liroplaee under conditions 
which the wise men considered impos¬ 
sible. We are till the lookout for novel¬ 
ties that will help our readers, and so we 
asked Mr, Allis to send a picture of his 
fireplace and tell us about it, The pic¬ 
ture is shown herewith, and here is the 
description : 
My wife had always wanted a fireplace, 
but there was not a place in the house 
where we could get a foundation for one, 
or a place to take a chimney. I never 
was very enthusiastic over a fireplace 
until one time we visited the Tresutjuu 
flue across to the chimney in the corner 
through the sideboard, which is built in. 
Were l to build another, I would not put 
in a damper. I have a damper. This 
tireplaec is (i ft. long and 5 ft. high. The 
opening should be about .‘5 ft. long, 20 in. 
high, ami the fireplace 20 in. deep. I 
have one row of bricks high at the bottom 
to hold the ashes in. There should be no 
bricks or any projection above the fire¬ 
place for several inches. The nearer 
smooth and straight Up, the better the 
draft. This fireplace has an oak mantel. 
If otic should use a marble or tile instead 
of wood, this could set directly on the 
flue, and would utilize lots of heat. We 
have the Hue covered with 8 in. of mor¬ 
tar, and no heat ever comes through the 
top. 
This construction proves anyone can 
have a fireplace anywhere in a house and 
carry the smoke Hue up or across in any 
direction. It is not necessary to have a 
chimney direelly over the tire plow. Were 
I to build another one. L would have two 
or more swinging cranes built in to use 
whim young folks are having a good time. 
It is one of the best places for popping 
Farming success 
depends largely on good 
A Built-in Fireplace Without Direct Chimney 
Indians in New Mexico. Everyone had a 
fireplace, and most, of them a fire in them. 
All the wood was staudiug endways. It 
was so attractive I began to wish we had 
a fireplace. I woke up in the night after 
I returned home, and by morning I had 
this fireplace all built—in my mind. I 
told the architect what I wanted. He 
said it never had been done and doubted 
whether it would work or not. After we 
had it built he said : “You have one thing 
different from any tiling in the world." I 
put a hoard in (lie fireplace to show how 
we have the wood stand endways. Hack 
of the wood is a frame made at a black¬ 
smith shop. Almost to the ends of the 
space there is a leg straight down, and 
Diagram of the Fireplace 
about 0 in. from the .floor a brace leg 
comes over towards the front to hold the 
frame in place. This frame is about 18 
in. high. From each, corner post there is 
a heavy strip of band iron \yi.th a piece 
in the middle sticking out the front about 
G in. This is to keep the wood standing 
up Straight. From each corner is an arm 
bent a little to pull around and hug the 
sticks and hold them in place against 
the center piece. We stall'd the wood up 
against the center piece and throw the 
arms up against it to hold the wood. 
You will sec the arms on each side. It 
is not necessary to have any foundation 
under the chimney, but we have several 
thicknesses of asbestos paper on the floor, 
a coat of mortar to set the bricks edge¬ 
ways. Have this layer of bricks come 
out in the room as far ns is desired for 
the hearth of the fireplace. T had the 
corners beveled instead of being square. 
This makes a foundation that will never 
heat through, 
Hack of the fireplace I took the wood 
out of the partition, leaving no wood 
hack of the fireplace at all; neither lath 
nor studding. The room above this hail 
a built-in dresser across the entire end 
of the room, so we could not take the 
smoke up, but I took it in uu 8-in. square 
corn and evening fun of anything I have 
ever known. I like this form of holders 
for shovel and tongs, because they are 
out of the way. and never get knocked 
over. On the top of the holder, where 
the shovel is. are two small forks, made 
after old-style forks for toasting bread. 
We use these to handle the tire with much 
of the time, instead of the tongs. 
CLARK ALLIS. 
“January Snow” 
(Continued from page 103) 
hut I let her have her own head, and she 
finds the track somehow. You see. it’s 
not packed down very good yet. In fact. 
it’s only a little better sleighing than it 
is wagoning. I’ve got a lunch here in the 
('Utter, but I can’t cut it. It’s too cold. 
Hut you call bet I’ve got an appetite. 
Well, I’ll soon be up to where I eat my 
dinner So long!” 
They move on slowly up the road. The 
plucky, short-logged Jenny meets the 
head on wind by holding her nose low to 
the ground, and they are soon out of 
sight behind the snowflakes. I wonder 
sometimes what Jenny thinks of the whole 
performance. She seems to understand 
and feel a certain sense of responsibility, 
else site would turn about and run for 
home. Yet site wears that frost on her 
nose and eyelashes as if it were a badge 
of honor, which it is to thoughtful people. 
Here comes daddy with the mail. Lit¬ 
tle Jane is hoping that there will lie a 
niis* magazine with colored pictures, and 
if Chore is. it will quietly disappear while 
the grown folks are looking over the 
newspapers. When mother arid father 
miss it, n good place to look will be in 
under mother’s bed. where a certain little 
miss may be found Iving on her stomach, 
heels in the air. busily turning the pages. 
“Ob. here yon are!’ is just like saying 
“1 spy !” A very bashful, red-faced little 
girl wiggles out and runs for daddy. “Ob. 
see. daddy, the kewpie!“ Daddy finds 
himself staring at an advertisement of 
canned soups, but he is very apt to pick 
up child, magazine and all, and go into 
the rocking chair, where little Jane will 
show him the pictures fro-n cover to cover. 
Daisy has scrubbed the red tile In front 
of the fireplace until it glows with the 
flame: but now site is rending a budget of 
letters front home, and her pleasure is 
very good to see. A book lies spread 
open on the table, an invitation to travel 
in far countries, and there are tiinnv more 
in the bookcase. I feel quite rich as I 
glance round our little group. The little 
house does not even quiver as the gale 
roars about the corners. It fits into the 
picture of contentment. 
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A Fireplace in Any Home 
