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By EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Rappahannock News ContributinR Writer
A recent biographical sketch of Archbishop Weakland of Milwaukee, makes a special point of the fact that the Archbishop, as a small boy, lived in a house in which the bedrooms were unheated, and that on cold mornings he would go downstairs in his night clothes to change in the heat which radiated from a central coal stove. This experience, among others, had, according to the article, formed the Archbishops positive character. 1 was reminded by the report that I had had the same experience, in the same kind of house, but have been unaware of its character building potential. I recall that it was rather pleasant, even exciting, to
change clothes, close to the coal stove in the living room, watching the flames through the ising glass windows of the stove, a pleasure which was lost when what we called “city water" was put in the town and a furnace and hot water heating system installed in our family house. The new heating arrangement was called “central heating" a misnomer, I think, since it was not central heat but distributed heat with radiators in every room. The old system, if it can be called a system, was truly central, and not much more than that. In any case, central or not, I was exposed to the character building of the cold bedroom and the hot coal stove during my formative years, and may have, without my knowing it, benefitted from the experience.
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