German Tiled Stoves and Their Makers 
IN THE MONASTERY OF KREMSMUNSTER 
IN THE LIBRARY OF SCHLOSS EFERDING 
possibilities of the fictile art applied to this use. 
Here might often be introduced the open fire¬ 
places in addition to the upper hot boxes, thus 
providing the happiness and 
content that always accom¬ 
panies the sound of the 
crackling and snapping of 
burning coal and wood, and 
picture-making might be 
indulged in without the 
usual accompaniment of 
burnt faces and cold backs, 
or what is almost more un¬ 
pleasant, the sickening heat 
of steam radiators or furnace 
registers. Twofine examples 
of stove and open fireplace 
combined are to be found in 
the Grand Ducal palace at 
Freiburg, and in the palaces 
of the Prince of Thurn and 
Taxis at Augsburg. 
One objection to these 
stoves is often and legiti¬ 
mately made; they heat 
a room, but do not ventilate it. What other 
stove, hideous though it be, serves this double 
function ? An open grate does the latter to an 
alarming and uncomfortable 
extent. American ingenuity 
could easily overcome this 
defect, introducing in some 
reasonable way, a current of 
pure air that would provide 
all the oxygen necessary for 
health, and a ventilator to 
carry off the used-up impure 
air, thus providing beauty, 
comfort and the much 
sought after hygienic condi¬ 
tions,—and all at a moderate 
cost. Many would hail the 
day that would mark the 
exodus of the furnace and 
steam radiator, and would 
crown the man who intro¬ 
duced a sane, economical, 
hygienic and, above all, an 
artistic manner of heating 
our houses. 
IN THE MONASTERY OF ST. FLORIAN 
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