Like a stove, a refrigerator requires careful watching and particular care.

See that the refrigerator is carefully cleaned before using. Then see that the drip pipe on the bottom is kept closed, preventing the air, sewer gas, or insects from entering the ice chamber through this pipe. It is advisable to look well to this point and prevent the unnecessary melting and waste of ice. If the drip trap on the bottom of the box is automatic, it will need no further attention than an occasional wiping out with a cloth. The drain pipe in the provision chamber should be easily removed and should be cleaned often to prevent its becoming clogged with dirt, which would force waste water back into the provision chamber of the refrigerator and would damage the contents. In case the ice should be consumed at any time and the refrigerator become warm, all of its contents should be removed and the refrigerator-thoroughly cleaned and allowed to stand from twelve to eighteen hours after the ice chamber is filled before any food is placed in the provision chamber. Wash the ice clean, fill the ice chamber and keep it as near full as possible all of the time. To buy fifteen or twenty pounds of ice for a box with a seventy-five or one hundred pound capacity is not economy, as ice wastes rapidly in small pieces, without producing the proper result. Ice is usually sold in fifty or one hundred pound pieces It is well to buy;a box which will hold at least ninety or one hundred pounds of ice One can then buy fifty pounds of ice at a time and have room for the piece that is usually left from the previous purchase. In a box that contains but fifty pounds it is necessary to let the ice melt almost entirely in order to have room for a new fifty-pound piece. The larger the piece of ice, the longer it will take for it to melt, therefore one may;as well buy a large refrigerator, and though more ice is necessary to start on, consideration should he given to the service that may be gained by the increased size of the provision chamber.

Never allow the doors to remain open longer than necessary, or to he left slightly ajar. Never place warm provisions in the refrigerator nor keep them in the ice chamber. With a good refrigerator, and following these instructions, satisfaction will be obtained.

The sweating of a refrigerator is usually due to an atmospheric condition, as is the sweating of a water pipe, and is no fault of the refrigeratorr its contents.