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Show The Furnace Fire. Consider the furnace fire. Its season has begun and continues, barring mishap, mis-hap, until some time next spring. It smokes, sulks, catches cold, goes on sprees, leaves without notice and is ad-dieted ad-dieted to most of the vices to which flesh is heir. It demands almost as much attenllon as a small child, and is far less grateful. Tt becomes the ruination, of many a good smoking jacket and many more poor tempers. tem-pers. It gases more persistently than a German offensive on. the western front, with an effect only a little, less deadly. In patriotic; verses and the 'like, citizens, citi-zens, all and sundry, are exhorted to perish, if need bp. for their altars and their lives, or their hearths. What is exactly ex-actly meant is that citizens should lie willing lo perish for their furnace fires. Could anyone imagine asking us to perish per-ish for anything more unworthy of a bio w? More likely we perish by our furnace fires. And perhaps find ii a happy release from the serfdom of tending them. Boston Daily Globe. |