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Show wood fire in the cook stove and sit around as in his old boyhood days on the farm. "What memories it recalls," re-calls," he would say, "to hear the crackle of the wood and sniff the smoke that seems to be purifying rather than oppressive! ""Affairs and Folks," Joe Mitchell Chappie, in Joe Chappie's News Letter. j 1 i The Old-Fashioned Fire. Could anything be more refreshing than the smell of the old-fashioned wood fire in late spring or early autumn? au-tumn? There Is something grimy in the reek of coal, and the odor of gas Is nauseating. Modern Inventions aiay have brought their "convenl-inces" "convenl-inces" but a staid old senator, who lately passed beyond, insisted that -when he wanted a real night of com-'lort, com-'lort, after the family had all gone touth for the winter, he would hie "ilmself home, build an old-fashioned |