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Show WA , . Molitenlny the Air. ' "Why, whatever la that for?" asked JL ; 1 3 caller of a Harlem housewife, as she K j sighted a deep pan, holding about two BfJ k quarts of water, which wbb steaming El l merrily on top of the steam radiator In pT-f 1 tho parlor. pl ' "That Is to keep the furnlturo from If t Xalllng apart and the piano from going ft I lo rack and ruin." repllel the house- Kj (" wife. "It Is something I Icatned In the W natural gas country, and If other pco- p ple did the same they would not suffer B ' ;' so much .with headaches when they r. i " r In hot, ateam-heated apart. !f. 3 'A. monta theso cold days, nor would their f- furniture warp and crack or tho glue )." dry up and fall out of the joints, Steam jtfi heat Is as' dry almost as natural gas a heat, and where natural gas Is usod a jr pot or pan of water must be kept on K the stove or fireplace, tho steam arls- E ' tng from It keeping the air moist." |