Show Snow an Effective Substitute for Ice lee J JIn In some foreign countries where J natural difficulties have stimulated human Inventiveness It It is quite usual I 1 Ifor for snow to be collected during the t f l coldest part winter and buried 1 well pressed presed down in specially dug pits So Intensely cold do these blocks of ot compressed snow become under under un- un f 1 der tills this treatment that after a fe few J f hours the they freeze Into solid lumps of or j j 1 Ice which keep almost Indefinitely and can be dug dUJ up when required says the i Detroit News Especially In very hot countries these pits pHs are frequently situated on mountains Macedonia is one of the countries which adopted this method of Insuring nn an adequate supply of Ice during the summer It Is a u remarkable remark remark- able fact that an Ice supply laid down downIn In this way at nt the beginning of the I winter will last right up to the end of n a summer consisting of many manyI months of almost unbearable heat beat I |