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Show Keep Baby's Milk GoU and He Will , Not Be Cross Milk that Is not kept cold is a dangerous dan-gerous food for babies. Every minute that the milk is much above the temperature tem-perature of ice the germs of disease are increasing in it at an alarming rate Many mothers who have refrigerators refrigera-tors are unable to buy enough ice In summer to preserve the milk in them for twenty-four hours. This should not be, for anyone can make at home a cheap but excellent milk refrigerator, requiring very little ice. A simple refrigerator of this kind uses less than five cents worth of Ice every day, keeps the milk below forty degrees (that is, near freezing point) so .that mothers having one, may be sure that tho warm weather can not spoil the baby's, milk. Such an ice box is, therefore, economical and protects the baby. Get a wooden box, such as a sonp box, fifteen inches In dopth. Buy a covered earthenware crock tall enough to hold a quart bottle of milk. Also get a piece of oilcloth or linoleum about a foot wide and. three feet long. Sew the ends together to make a cylinder which will fit loosely around tho crook. Place the crock inside tho oilcloth cylinder and stand them In tho center of the box. Now pack sawdust or excelsior ex-celsior beneath and all about thorn to keep the heat from getting in. Complete Com-plete tho refrigerator by nailing a Sunday Sun-day paper or two other newspapers to the wooden cover of the box. It Is now ready for use. In the morning as soon as you receive re-ceive the milk, place it in the crock; crack five cents worth of Ice and place It about tho milk bottle. Place the cover on the crock and the lid on the wooden box. No mutter how hot the. .day has boen, you will find somo un-melted un-melted ice in the cicck the next u ,:n-ing. ,:n-ing. Kuin-ic the aocs every irorciuu to pour fff the tno'vu me. |