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Even the Boy Scouts have surrendered to the realities of the situation and rolled back their old Second Class require- ment that called for starting a fire with only two matches. But at last relief is in sight. Inventors have come to the res- cue and solved a problem that stone age man is supposed to have disposed of before the dawn of history. Homemakers who despaired of ever getting a part-time job in a blast furnace because of their ineptitude at starting a fire, can find comfort in a vari-} ety of do-it-yourself fire-making aids. Happily, none of them in- volves rubbing sticks together. KINDLING NO PROBLEM For a small investment, a fel- low can procure an imposing array of incendiary implements guaranteed to set his hearth to blazing and his barbecue pit to roaring. First, there's the matter of kindling wood, No need to dash about the backyard picking up twigs, old berry boxes and empty Scotch crates when sev- eral manufacturers now offer "concentrated kindling wood' ai 49 cents a package. The stuff is guaranteed to go up like a strawberry box, which also selis for about 49 cents, straw- berries included, And forget about old news- papers, too. The Cape Horn fire lighter, in the opinion of its manufacturer, 'eliminates the use of paper" and thereby qualifies. as 'the perfect com- panion for fireplace and. barbe- cue pit." Except for-its gleaming brass finish, the Cape Horn item jooks suspiciously like a loco- motive engineer's oil. can. H accomplishes its combustible purpose by squirting kerosene on your kindling. If your fire still refuses to light, it's time to try a soap- stone fire starter, a torch-like affair that looks like the origi- nal flaming shaft. The idea is to light the fire starter, hold it alotf for a moment shishka-bob fashion to get a good flame working, then thrust it into the middie of your kindling. FLAME COMES TO LIFE Failing that, you can proceed to an electric fire starter that is supposed to ignite your char- coal briquettes almost on con- Now, at last, a spark has been struck and a flame is leaping to life. Or at least we hope so. The next step is to keep it going. Since chemists define fire as the rapid combin- ation of oxygen with other mat- ter, there is a compelling need to rapidly bring more oxygen into the fireplace. -- But no need to blow your brains out or wear out your arm fanning the flames. Again several of necessity's ingenious offspring are on hand to help you. There is, for instance, the '"'blo-poke,". a long. brass. tube resembling a glass blowers rod. You puff gently into the tube and a virtual hurricane whirls out the other end. , If that doesn't do the trick, you replace your 'own breath with a synthetic product emitted from a battery-oper- ated fire blower, which looks amazingly like a woman's hair dryer. In fact, there's no rea- son why you can't haul out the little woman's hair dryer on a long extension cord or hook up the blower on the vacuum clean- er. No self-respecting backyard chef would ever settle for a plain old fire -- not in this age of scientific sublimity. Natural- ly, you'll want to dress up your blaze with factory - packaged hickory chips, store - bought birch logs and a sprinkling of special. fire powder called "chimney sweep." "Just sprinkle chimney sweep on your fire," the package pro- claims, "then all evening long - watch the flames sparkle 'a bril- liant rainbow of colors; giori- ous blues, greens, reds and yel- lows." The greens, presumably, are for ceremonial fires on St. Patrick's Day. 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