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Show Stoves Brought Here by the Early Dutch Stores Are supposed to have been Introduced Into Colonial America by the Pennsylvania Dutch. The earliest earli-est were of curious design. A particularly par-ticularly odd one used In churches was of sheet metal. It was shaped like a box ; three sides were within the church; the fourth with the stove door was outside, which made it possible pos-sible to stoke during religious services serv-ices with a minimum of disturbance to the worshipers. Possibly the winters In the North Atlantic Rtntes are as severe as they were In the 1000s and 1700s, but modem mod-em progress had reduced their terrors. ter-rors. The present generation would fancy It could not have survived the discomforts and inconveniences of an early colonial home. The biting winds poured down the great chimneys, sifted sift-ed through crevices In walls and floors and rattled the loosely fitted windows. Cotton Mather and Judge Samuel Sewali recorded In their diaries that frequently me hik iroze on meir pen? hs they wrote not far from the chimney chim-ney side. One of them that when logs were brought Id from outdoors and laid on the fire, the sap oozing from the freshly sawed ends froze into Ice drops. Seldom were the bedrooms warmed Deep feather beds and heavy bed curtains were the only things that made these sleeping apartments endurable. en-durable. ' Warming pans, and later sonpstones and hot bricks were employed em-ployed to mitigate the first frigid entrance en-trance to bed. |