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Show Grownups Play With Fire Hazards in Their Own Home By OtfVK KOBEKT8 BAKTON Mrs. Smith, on her way to the grocer's, heart the fire siren. The bif trucks roar past, but, not before her heart has missed several beats. Thank goodness, they have passed her corner. used for the clothes bolter. John had tapped a pips overhead, and put on a rubber hose connection, Mrs. Smith had warned the aw Hilda about it over and over, but half the time it wasnt turned off at the ceiling. If that hose ever slipped . Well Mrs. Smith would stop at the plumber's right now and leave word. And not only that, but the water beater had taken notions recently re-cently and blown out for no reason at alL I" "At the store she called HildeTBut Hilda couldn't hear the telephone. Another item to be corrected at once. Not another day would pass. Mrs. Smith resolved, until every fire haa-ard haa-ard in her house was removed. And this is why Mrs. Smith gets a column to herself. She is too food to be true But during the short Interval of uncertainty, a dozen things have had time to crystallise on the sensl-Uvaplate sensl-Uvaplate of memory. Hilda is Ironing In the laundry with put a finger In. "Bona day a spark from the furnace la going to work through. And It mav be when you're away or asleep." John had said every day since that he aimply must get the chimney fixed.. And It wasn't done yet. - Then there was always doubt bout the hearth In the living room, where aha and John had decided that logs would look more homey than the stove arrangement already there when they bought the place and moved in. A hearth has te a weU constructed construct-ed and reinforced, If fire la to burn on tt. fire lifted above flooring in baskets or stoves is a little different problem from fire burning right on a fllmaily built hearth. Before risking risk-ing It, Mrs. Smith and John both knew that experts should have been consulted. Every day John had said: "I really must send Petersen over to see if there is any wood under those tiles." But Petersen hadn't heard about it yet In the laundry, there had been no gas connection for the hotplate all the doors closed. Little demons of conscience continue to torment her, lung after In flrifpanlc has" passed. i She hurries on her errand, resolved re-solved that aa soon aa she gets home several things are going to be attended at-tended to at once. Right away, before be-fore another day passes. Menu la the Attic One la the loose brick In the attic chimney. A year ago, the men who repaired the roof told her husband that the ' mortar la the two old chimneys had fallen away, and that there were places where the flue went through the attic you could |