A Personal Experience.
The following personal experience is related by an old friend of The Insurance Monitor :
“A few weeks ago while recovering from a serious illness, I was aroused at an early hour in the morning by the voice of a servant in earnest conversation with my wife just outside my bedroom door. I caught enough of the conversation to learn that a fire had been discovered somewhere about or near the house. Forgetting for the moment my sickness, a few clothes were hastily donned, and 1 quickly descended to the kitchen, which was filled with smoke. There in a closet under a wash boiler was a mass of burning rags, and the woodwork around them was already on fire. A pail of water sufficed to extinguish the incipient conflagration which if it had occurred an hour or two earlier would probably have involved a serious loss. It turned out that on the previous day some flannel cloths had been used to give a fresh coating of oil to the floor of one of the rooms, and in ignorance of the combustible properties of combined linseed oil and flannel, the cloths had been temporarily laid in the closet to be washed.
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