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Show Moistening the Air. "Why, whatever is that for?" asked a caller of a Harlem housewife, as she sighted a deep pan, holding about two quarts of water, which was steaming merrily on top of the steam radiator in the parlor. "That is to keep the furniture from falling apart and the piano from going to rack and ruin," repliel the housewife. house-wife. "It is something I learned In the natural gas country, and if other people peo-ple did the same they would not suffer so much with headaches when they are shut in hot, steam-heated apartments apart-ments these cold days, nor would their furniture warp and crack or the glue dry up and fall out of the joints. Steam heat is as dry almost as natural gas heat, and where natural gas is used a pot or pan of water must be kept on the stove or fireplace, the steam arising aris-ing from it keeping the air moist." |