Show Aummn lveJ In putting up autumn stoves it ia well to recall the superiority of a zinc platform about an inch in thickness over the old fashioned flat piece of zinc When the stove is raised a little in this way the dust does not collect under it so easily There is no rough edgo to cut the hand of the scrubber and to spring up and to leave a crevice under which dust is sure to gather This method of mounting tho stove should certainly be insisted on in the kitchen and it costs but a trifle more than the ordinary Sheet of zinc In fact any clever workman can make such a platform It is merely made of one thickness of board covered firmly with zinc at the top and over all the edges It is well to avoid all zinc covered with corrugations or other places sunken in it for ornament sake The smoother and plainer the zinc is the better It IB well for housekeepers to remember in purchasing zinc that there are two qualities of this metal the light and heavy zinc |