How a tenant may keep his cottage healthy and comfortable / by J. Corbett.
- Corbett, J. (Joseph)
- Date:
- [1879?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: How a tenant may keep his cottage healthy and comfortable / by J. Corbett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![comfort giving arts to which I shall call your attention. So let it be clearly understood between us that I don't presume to pro]x>se many new ideas, but rather to gather together the many practical hints that have been given me, from time to time, in various ways.- Let us take for example a cottage or small house, one of a row, with a small front parlour, a roomy kitchen, a scullery, andi yard, &c. The kitchen will be the usual dwelling-room, so ouii first attention must be given to it. It has, we will suppose, (i) j sash window, (2) an open fire-range, oven, and side boiler, (3) soma cupboards, and (4) a flagged floor. 1. The sash window should be widely opened for a while each day, and the doors also opened, so as to give the house a gooC blow through, which will clear away all smoky or foul air lurkinj. in the corners and behind the furniture. When a room has beei used for cooking, washing, or other such work, nothing so readil; and completely freshens it and makes it pleasant for one's dinne; or tea as to give it a thorough blow through for a few minutes Even in winter this is pleasant, for the room soon gets warm agai: after the doors are shut, because its walls and floors, &c., are a!.. warm, and they assist in warming the fresh air in it. The sas', window also forms the most convenient inlet for fresh air whil. the room is in use, sometimes by opening the top part of thk window; but in cold weather it is best to raise the lower part c 1 the window a little, so as to let air in upwards at the meeting ban: and close the opening below it by a slip of wood, or by one ( those sash-bags so often misplaced on the window. (See A i diagram.) . 2. The fireplace, oven, and boiler call for very special attention as on them depends to some extent the good or bad cooking, am also the quantity of coal used. I have seen very few good, neas economical cooking-ranges in cottages, and very many bad one; but I never saw one so bad that it could not be made tolerab. ' good by a little contrivance and care. Nearly all cottage fireplace have quite too large a fire space, and therefore burn too much fue.i but they can be easily improved by fitting two or three firebricl into the side opposite the oven. These bricks should be set slopin • so as to make the fire space narrower at the bottom than at tt top, then when you want a very small fire it will be kept close the oven ready to heat it, and when you want a large fire, to be two pans at once, the top width of the fire space will be ample !• the purpose. The side boiler would be cooled by thus narrowu the fire, and you would have to use a pan or ketUe for hot wate.;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21450225_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
