The Catalog was an exuberant compendium of resourceful possibilities for laid back, but self-reliant living: wood-burning stoves, home remedies, mail-order moccasins, durable tools.

For heat, there is one silver cylinder-shaped grate, perforated evenly with holes the size of children's fingers.

Or more precisely, I think the heat works well, but the cylinders aren't enough to heat a space with six-story-high ceilings.