The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-23

Next to ones husband, the most I'M
portant thing about the home Of 2 prac-
teal wife and mother is her refrigerator
or ice box, says Dorothy Maddox IN the
Philadelphia inquirer SOMETIMES sac
stands for one, sometimes for the other-
Both. according to modern notions, de-
mand the purity of a white satA waist
Quite an exhaustive article was printed
not long since which rather upset my
nreconceived ideas. This writer thought
evidently she had thoroughly mastered
the art of pantry exuisiteness when
she urged that food receptacles be seaad-
ed once a week.
That depends. Refrigerators might be
neglected in this fashion without serious
results, but how about the ice box2 Ine
ice drainage is bound to get mixed with
bits Of food that lave sifted to the DOL
tom of the chest
In the refrigerator. where there is no
danger of this. risks taken are not quite
SO great. Both, however, had better Dc
scrutinized with equal care. h butter
crock may be tightly closed, the cream
or milk lar be covered. There are seri-
ous chances against any such attention.
Every morning an ice chest should be
sudsed "A scalded with due regard LOT
corners. 1t Is a good rule to follow when
there is a desire to keep eatabies IN
healthy condition
Not one cook in fifty is willing TO take
This trouble. She considers the every
morning cleaning process time wasted,
and growas accordingly Insist that there
be no omission.
The safest plan is a direct trip from
the breakfast table to the pantry Mnen
a housekeeper gets above STAIRS SO many
matters tend to lead her NINA away
from food hygiene.
The ten minutes, for it VIII naroiy eaAe
longer, need never be gruosansis sNs'
for 1t starts the day with rne Kno"teoRs
that no bad edors finger ABOUT tNe ph~ss
where the family proyender is kept
A refrigerator has this Il Is
tidier than an ice box IL one can aiLoiu
1t, the latest mode in refrigerators !. d
most seductive piece. Of furniture ine
porcelain lining can be kept as cream as
the inside of a china cup, There are no
unhealthy cranniesl to be overlooked
Everything about n OF these pantry
luxuries is a delight to the eye
I wonder more families are not poisoned
by the careless management OF food re-
cepsacles. Housekeepers will fuss over
three sets OF window curtains, fume II
every lamp is not in order, talk themselves
into prostration because busting and
sweening are not faithfully carried out,
and vet the place of places receives a
spnarscial attention chat needs e~ensure
from tbe BOARD Of aHealth.
r wauld re well If these gentlemen
,o,,,a ,ss,,a rnon-h,v a refrigerator warn
mo to eare,sgs housekeepers. The health
~ an entire family IS -aeusndent1 upon the
narsact svste,n controlI;nr hvgienic food.
hsva r+orv a. raj, II il not a Meas
~ ~ n,ar sarva as . warninp
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creu pounus u iee, ees.' "as
one "ouin 30 aAeo Az ApeAeu ai'el
breakfast and says
Mary nave you tnoroeenly eis@"so ehe
zee eox tnas morning:
wary anyways answered yes Win q
race as honest as uae sun. 90 MARY nau
s"asheu ABOUT IN q way sneipes ana @inc
bottom. it looked an rlght on the SUIT
race. ms was 2 case OF Keeping the
OUTSIDE OF me piatter clean-
One Gay Mary IN nigh ieft,
ana the hltie laoy NAG 70 taKe up kllcnen
duties Inc very nrst place sne lnvesta-
gated was Fhe zee chest what oad she
40 but SIT down and cry, ard then she
actually offered up a prayer OF
ness that her dear ones were stin In the
land OF the hvin@
A careless glance at the box revealed
nothing, but when drain pipe and drip
pan were inspected there was a chance
for a man to use some OF the incest
scuss" words, which he would promptly
have done instead of either crying or
praying
Slime filled each part of the drain pipe;
slime. a black, unhealthy secretion, lined
the bottom Of the sides of the drip pan.
Neither one nor the other could have been
scrubbed for days.
"And to think walled this housekeep-
er, that girl had san soap. ammonia,
everything she needed to clean with. To
think she always vowed she kept nay ice
box beautifully. I should have known,
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