Show snow an effective substitute for ice in some foreign countries here natural difficulties have stimulated human inventiveness it Is quite usual for or snow to be collected during tile the coldest port part of the winter and bulled well pressed down in specially dug pits so intensely cold do these blocks of compressed snow become under this treatment that after a few hours they freeze into solid lumps of ice which keep almost indefinitely and can be dug up when required says the detroit news hews especially in very hot countries tl aliese i c s e p pits i t s a are r e f frequently r e q u t I 1 y situated 1 t u a on U ein so ted m mountains 0 u n t a 1 n s 3 macedonia 1 a e e d 0 n a Is one n e of I 1 the h countries which adopted this method of insuring an adequate supply of lea ice during the summer it Is a remarkable fact that an ice supply laid down in this way at the beginning of the tha winter will last right up to the end of a summer consisting 0 of many months of almost unbearable beat |