The Washington times., 1923-06-11
WIRES
TAKE PLACE Of
|CEMAN
Modern Refrigeration Is Less
Costly, More Sanitary,
Experts Declare.

home. Electric heat is another fea-
ture OF the home electric service;
likewise electric power for the
washing machine, vacuum sweeper
| and the like.
Another electrical convenience
/ that comes into the home over the
! electric system is refrigeration. This
is becoming increasingly popular,
and thousands are doing away with
the annoyance of getting ice from
| the iceman as a consequence.
A great deal of the popularity of
electrical refrigeration is due to
that very fact-that it is no longer
necessary to have the ice brought
| in every day or two, to hang up the
| ice sign, to mop up the floor after
the ice mans visit, to have him
come late and have the ice box
growing warmer and warmer, to
miss him altogether and have lot
of food, specially selected and spe-
cially prepared, spoil for want OF
refrigeration.
There are a. good many draw
backs, well known to all Of us who
have to depend upon ice, during the
warm weather, all these years. And
here is a funny thing about the
proposition. Using ice was accept
ed, and we made the best or 1t, as
long as there was no better, no
more modern way in which to Keep
the household, food supplies colo.
Is Ideal Refrigeration.
But along comes electrical refrig-
Grafton to keep the food supplies
automatically and continuously
chilled. Refrigeration with ice -
| Immediately an old-fashioned, out
of-date method and its failings are
more plainly apparent than ever De-
| fore. This is natural because one
never had this ideal refrigerator
before with which to compare the
established practice of taking ice:
For electrical refrigeration is ideal
refrigeration. 1t is just having a
cupboard whose interior is always,
automatically, continuously coid'
without any more attention than
good housewife would bestoW on an
ordinary cupboard.
In addition to providing ideal re-
frigeration, this electric refrigerator
freezes ice for household use ana
keeps supply of it always on
hand. 1t can be frozen in the form
of handy-sized cubes, just right 10
slim into a drinking glass, for cooi-
ing drinks. You can be assured OF
u,Ires ice. too, when you freeze II
in yo,rr own electric refrigerator, for
YOU can be sure of the purity or the
water from which the ice Is frozen.
You can not always feel easy ABOUT
this question of purity 81 the ice
that goes into your lcebox. Wnen
YOU think of the history OF an ice
cake from the time it IS frozen
Iiof it's travels through dusty streets
| IN an open wagon, of being dragged
across the sidewalk, or carried on
fhe iceman's shoulder and dropped
into the waiting ice chest. There y
always a possibility. it must be adj
mitted. of the ice becoming contain
mated and conveying disease into
the icebox.
Means Health Protection.
Electrical refrigeration for the
household food supplies means
health protection Besides insuring
pure ice and preventing the intro
duction of germs with the ICE II
preserves the food which Is kept
there. 1t is easy to understand inns
when You remember that an average
temperature 81 ~ or ." 'es'eeS
| Eabrenheit will be maintained con-
| This fs a colder temperature than
YOU can keep with ice, ana II WI WI
no q. drv air. Moisture is created
| naturally in the ordinary icebox, be
cause it's cooling is secured by melt
ing ice-and melting ice means
water Here in your electrical re-
! f,.ieerat tor. moisture is carried, along
! With the heat units. to the walls OF
| tho freezing chamber, where a tenn
| narat,,re of around 20 degrees above
zero ia found Here the moisture Is
/ collected in the form OF frost. ana
| y is easy to appreciate the dry
frosty air which must a"cord'hslN
nrevail around the food there IN the
food compartment.
! Tbere is a feature Of the freHzns
commitment. that chamber where
the ice cubes arc frozen. which we
,nus+ not overlook, This IS me
frozen desserts. OF course. place
that gets cold enough to freeze ice
| c,,has will freeze other substances
| housewives who own electric refrig
| orators take advantage of this fa"f
and freeze a variety of appetizing
desserts in these same ice trays
Parfaits. mousse, and those sherbets
and creams which are frozen with
mt stirring or heatin~ can he mad
easilv and conveniently in the cleo
trical refrigerator and be kept right
along. from day to day. ready to III
! served whenever taste or emergency
| dema nds.
! There is an economy for the home
in electrical refrigeration. There Is
AN economy in time There is the
time saved from hanging out the
ice sign two or three hundred times
p wear. from letting i'm the icenaT
and celaning up the evidences of his
coming there is the time saved
from taking care Of the ineboX 4nf
i,eeping it free from the damp
| mOnldv smells that are apt II
sprtng uD within its moist interior
Then there is the economy il
food saved. for foods won't spoil II
good electric refrigerator. The
constant. dry, cold air keeps foods
nure and sweet for DAYS. mucr
longer than the average housewife
would want to save them An6
food supplies can he bought ir
larger Quantities. whore they car
he stored IN the electric refrigera Tor
so there is the saving from gettine
y dnantitv prjce Finally. when ort
realizes that. with all these con
""niences. il costs no more to oper
ate orc If these electric refrieor
q 'n~s tEnu - d0as to t,lv ice nr
idea of tho hig anonouv Of modern
electrical !'~F~i~erat n fnr 1.-Two home
! begins 10 dawn Eor. let's nor yysr
sight o. N" fact that the hiy onnaa
- n all +haSo n1OHPrD hopoa co,xor