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Show u RURAL RECIPES. , How to Keep Water Cold. "Having tried' it, I recommend the following mode of keeping ice water for a long time in a common pitcher,' says a writer in Woman's Home Companion Com-panion for July: "Place between two sheets of thick (brown paper a layer of cotton batting about half an inch in thickness; fasten the ends of the paper and batting together, forming a circle, then sew or paste a crown over one end, making a box the shape of a stovepipe hat minus the rim. Place -this over an ordinary pitcher j filled 'with ice water, making it deep enough to rest on the table so as to exclude the air, and you will be astonished as-tonished to see the length of titnc , that the ice will keep and the water T.cmain cold after all the ice has melt- ' ed " W ' ' n 1 |