Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1911 — GETTING ALONG WITHOUT ICE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GETTING ALONG WITHOUT ICE

Old-Fashioned “Coolers'* Will Take the Place of the Modern Useful Receptacle. It will come ah a surprise to a good many housekeepers to learn that toe, however desirable as n luxury, is by no means a necessity for preserving food in warm weather. Experienced campers know how to get along without it very well. They have several methods of constructing iceless refrigerators, all differing more or less in appearance, but alike in being based on tbfe principles of the old-fashioned “coolers," with which the cooks of our grandfathers' and grandmothers’ time were familiar. . A peach crate makes a very good refrigerator; or any box of openframe construction, with slats for sides Instead of solid boards, will da Arrange in it as many shelves as yon need, or have room for; provide a door, with hinges and'a catch, and cover the sides, back and door with burlap. Place an enamel pan on top, and from this pan hang wicks made of strips of flannel four or five inches wide. These wicks Btart from the inside bottom of the pan and hang over the edge of the crate until the

ends come in contact with the tfcp of the burlap. The refrigerator Is to be placed outside In the shade, but where the wind can blow upon it, and the pan is to be kept foil of water. This water is drawn up by the wicks and distributed through the mesh of the burlap by capillary attraction. The breeze causes the moisture to evaporate, and the evaporation reduces the temperature inside the refrigerator. It will keep butter firm on the warmest days In summer.—Youth’s Companion.