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closely around the smaller dish to hold the freezing mixture. The 

 principle is the same as in any ice cream freezer. It is best to use 

 for freezing, water that has been boiled and allowed to settle. The 

 water and the vessels should first be made as cool as possible in the 

 coldest water available in the well or wherever convenient. 



It will require from two to four times as much (by weight) of 

 the chemical as of the ice desired. A pound of ice will require from 

 two to four pounds of the mixture, but the chemical may be used over 

 and over again, by simply evaporating the water. If a large piece of 

 ice is wanted or the ice is to be frozen sooner than otherwise, provision 

 must be made for lifting the small can containing the water to be 

 frozen out of the surrounding mixture and immediately placing it in a 

 fresh mixture. It may be necessary to repeat this a third or even a 

 fourth time, to hasten the freezing, The outer vessel should be in- 

 sulated by wrapping it about with blankets or comforters, or by 

 numerous thicknesses of paper. 



Water at 32 Fahrenheit will freeze, but not at once. No mat- 

 ter what the outside temperature, the temperature of water will re- 

 spond proportionately until a temperature of 32 Fahrenheit is 

 reached. Then a thermometer in the water will show no further de- 

 cline, neither will the formation of ice begin, until the latent heat has 

 been absorbed. This factor, of course, must also be taken into con- 

 sideration when making ice by means of chemical salts. The latent 

 heat of ice amounts to 142.5 thermal units, a thermal unit being the 

 amount of heat necessary to raise a pound of water, one degree, 

 Fahrenheit. 



THE APPLE. 



THE JAPANESE FOUNTAIN OP ETERNAL YOUTH AND BEAUTY. 



The apple, the food of the gods, the mainstay of life in Eden, 

 the most luscious, the most precious, most health-giving food on earth. 

 No wonder poets in all ages have sung its praises It is the most uni- 

 versal fruit, being found throughout the temperate zone of all countries 

 of the globe. 



The secret of its power lies in the malic acid and the picric acid it 

 contains. The malic acid, which no chemist has been able to reproduce, 

 has a marvelous power of awakening to healthful activity all those 

 secretions of the body that tend to cleanse the entire system, hence ita 

 great value in many diseases, and in preventing diseases. 



Obtaining Beauty of Face by Means of the Apple. It is 

 recorded that Cleopatra, of Egypt, the most renowned beauty of aacient 



