Show when Stoves wore Were not common many people are living today who during their entire boyhood never saw a stove the writer of this article who was a boy in ohio from 1840 until 1850 remembers remember a distinctly the first stove ho he ever saw which was in 1947 of course there were stoves in existence there before that time but they were not common and were to be found only in the houses of well to do people and sometimes in the school houses houses were heated and meals were cooked at the old fashioned fireplace the boy who has seen an old smoke be grimed crane covered with hooks from which were suspended iron pots in which to boil meat potatoes or what not can ro re alize aiji te the beauty of Long fellows graphic poem of the hanging langing of the crane better than he who knows of it only by reading philadelphia press |