Fireplace Was the Center of Family Life and Activity;
Chimney Sweeps Common

by Egbert T. Bush, Stockton, NJ, March 20, 1930

Mr. Bush has good advice for those of us who enjoy a warm fire in winter. Note that the illustrations were not included with the original article.

“The great fire up the chimney roared.”  Indeed it did, and how could it be otherwise? There was so much of greatness around that fire that it could not help either being great or roaring with its own greatness and that of its surroundings. That fire was not built on the economic Indian plan: “Injun make little fire—go close by;” but rather according to the Indian’s description of the uneconomic way of the paleface: “White man make big fire—go ‘way off.”