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Show A Simple Fire Escape. A eimple, easily procured, inexpen-eive inexpen-eive and practical means of escape from npper stories may be found in a stout duck sack and a Btrong manilla rope. The sack should be deep and wide enough to hold several persons and have a rope well bound around the top to 1 which the rope bail is attached. -If no appliance be provided to hold a stout sail across the window on the inside, then Beveral wraps must be taken around some article of furniture, wife and children dumped into the sack, the husband hus-band paying out the rope and letting them down. The sack is then drawn np, when the remaining occupant goes into the sack with the slack end of the rope, and paying it out lets himself down. Rope and sack will pass unhurt past considerable sheets of flame from windows below, and if occasionally treated to a strong solution of alum water, wa-ter, or even strong brine, are of difficult ignition. The deep sack dispels the feeling feel-ing of fear in not beholding the dizzy height and also protects from flame in passing windows. Every window should have strong staples into which a rail can be inserted and which should be ever ready if needed. A cool head could" thus let down, in many cases, numerous loads, and for that matter there may be rope enough to allow all the paying out and pulling up to be done by some one on the ground. Private instructions should be in every room, and each occupant oc-cupant should be made familiar with the working. Pittsburg Dispatch. |