Show when stove stoves were not common many people are living today who during their entire boyhood never saw a stove the writer of this article who was a boy in ohio from 1840 until 1830 remembers distinctly the first stove he ever saw which was in 1817 of course there were stoves in existence there before that time but they were not common and were to bt b found only hi the houses of well to do people and sometimes in the school houses houses were heated and meals were cooked at the old fashioned fireplace the boy who has seen an old smoke be grimed crane covered with hooks from which were suspended iron pots in which to boil boll meat potatoes or what not can realize the beauty of Long Ung fellows graphic poem of the hanging 0 of the crane cranes better than he who knows of it only by read ing Philadelphia press |