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Show . ".JT, " " t " 1. 'Jl REFRIGERATOR IIIjYT. I T was a friendly grocery clerk who I suggested a remedy for the possible Odor in an iccbOx affecting prints of butter. but-ter. It so happened that the purchaser had only an Ice chest of rather contracted proportions in which to keep her provisions, pro-visions, and in order to delay the meltiug of the Ice (partly owing to a piece of the valve having conie ort) she used heavy brown paper to keep the chilly block from touching the Bides of tho box. So far, the idea worked well, but It Is hrird to find paper that Will be absolutely without a "refrigerator smell" when tho confttOf with the ice hn8 mr.de it damp. hor a titfe this did not matter, as the milk w.-ls in closed bottles, nnd the butler she was used to buying cailie in sinitary waxed pasteboard boxes. But when she. wnB no longer able to get that brand and had to take ordinary one-pound prints, without other protection than waxed paper, the grocer boy met her objections by suggesting) sug-gesting) the use of tho oblong tin boxes lb which hdlf poundsof American tens are packed. They arc good tcris, too, but she did not even have to purchase them, ns he offered to save her a box, dud Into it the pound print fitted with just (he little margin to spare that would make it easy to slide tho butter out when wnutcd. Since then she has also learned that a good lump of charcoal in the cdr"-net1 cdr"-net1 of the Icebox helps td keep the air in It sweet quite a3 much as it keeps fresh add odorless tho water in which cut flowers arc placed in vases or other receptacles. |