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Show DON'T LEAVE STALE--' FOOD IN ICE-CHEST, made and kept germ and Insect free. I Glass, pottery and metallic wares are to be preferred to wood. Have as few groovea and Joints as posslbie, a3 tbey harbor minute particles of food. Be-foro Be-foro receiving food the receptacles fhould be well washed, thoroughly scalded with boiling water, wipe perfectly per-fectly dry and then allowed to cool. If possible place them out of dcors lo the sun for a few hours. To renovate an old refrigerator all that is required Is a small can of white lead, a can of white enamel, a little turpentine and some varnish for the outMd Tho first thing Is to thoroughly clean the refrigerator Inside, then thin tho white lead with turpentine until it will ; spread evenly, and give tbo whole in- ' side a coat, rae;s and all. After it U dry give it the llrst coat of enamel. i If the enan'ol Is too thick to spread easily, thin t with a little turpentine, and after the first coat Is dry give It another, being careful to spread p ! e'enly and smoothly as possible. You will bo both surprised and pleased with the result, for It looks so invitingly, f clean and is easily kept dean. . I i I I I O VER-R1PK fruits and vegetables aro a menace to the health If left in tho icfrlgerator; nothing more rapidly taints other foods than cantaloupes. Charcoal is a great disinfectant, and a piece should bo put in the food compartment com-partment and changed once a week. If much Ice is used for the table and for other purposes, use a storage box for this extra Ice. Should ants get into Iho refrigerator a saucer of tartar emetic mixed with sucar and water will drive them away. Another method is to scour the shelvs with hot water and borax. Dry in the sun if tho shelves are po'tahle, thou tprinklo thickly with dry borax, which Is odorless and harmless and may bo used freely. The Idea of connecting a spring to a refrigerator door will be found very useful. Do not make a culinary junk heap of your refrigerator, and you will be saved many of the woes that inflict tho ueg'ectfui housekeeper wheu heat works havoc with aM food supplies. Substitutes. For people who have neither refrigerators, refrig-erators, ice nor cellars, a wcll-ventl-latcd safe or box at the north part of the house Is the next best thing Th!3 should always stand In a current of air. All the reccptaeles in which food is kept should, as far as possible, be |