Show an ky easy way of hurrying the fire it if a gre does not burn well says the old household superstition and yo you u want it to draw you should set the poker across the top bar of the grate 11 this is supposed to placate the gnomes whom it was formerly believed were very jealous of th the robbery of 0 their underground count country ryot ot its coal treasures and were very apt to take their vengeance out in preventing mhd fire from burning it was the mystic form of the cross thus made which was w as supposed to drive them away nevertheless it would not do to use the shovel in this charm or the fire would be sure to go out it would be possibly a happy thing it if all housekeepers who bo fall to make their fires burn could attribute it to the witches ot the chimney to the gnomes of the lower world or to some household fairy who had haa cast a spell 11 over the house but there are no gnomes fairies or witches now to inter fere with the fire it if only the dampers are right and some judgment exercised exercise LI new york tribune |