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Show A Simple I'rononiy. If natural gas consumers wish to ha economical they will keep their fltovea full of paper ashes. Just put a handful of jiaper into your stove, and after it is burned observe the result. The burning burn-ing of the paper doesn't add perceptibly to the heat of the stove, but the ashes of the paper inako the gas go further, because be-cause the gas is then entirely consumed. Some peoide use broken tire brick, which is better than nothing, because the nn-consumed nn-consumed gas which comes out of tha burner encounters tho hoatt-d surfaces of the brick as it rises upward, mid mora of it is consumed. But paper of any kind is better, because it contains more or loss of kaolin or clay, which is incombustible. incom-bustible. The ashes of paper are nearly I oil clay. In a natural gas stove they form a kind of Fponjrious filter through, ' which all the gas must pass and bo consumed con-sumed bidoro it goes into tho clumney. Use paper ashes iu your stove and it will ' inako a difference of 10 per cent in tha heat evolved. Detroit News. r . . |