The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Ice Shortage and Primitive Refrigeration 
One of the most trying hot weather 
problems of the housewife is to keep the 
daily supply of milk from souring, the 
butter from running in an oily stream 
over the plates,-salad mixtures cool and 
left-over food from spoiling. This year 
Jack Frost has left her in many cases to 
face the problem without the aid of ice. 
Some ingenious person, however, has come 
to her rescue and presented her with a 
plan for a refrigerator which operates 
without ice. This simple homemade de¬ 
vice will help to solve the ice question in 
town apartments where ice is not avail¬ 
able this year, as well as rendering first 
lid to women in rural communities, and 
to camping parties, where ice is seldom 
available for Summer use. The principle 
involved is based upon a simple law of 
physics, that heat is required to change 
water to vapor. When water evaporates 
on a hot day this heat is taken from the 
air. South American Indians made use 
of this principle centuries ago in keeping 
their drinking water cool, by placing it in 
large round-bottomed porous earthenware 
jugs hung in a current of air. The jugs 
were so porous that the water seeped 
through, collected on the outside of the 
jug and gradually evaporated. This 
evaporation cooled the air surrounding 
the jug. which in turn kept the water 
fairly cool. 
The iceless refrigerator shown in the 
illustration makes use of the same prin¬ 
ciple. Water placed in a pan above the 
screened cupboard seeps through the cloth 
covering the screen, and evaporates, tak¬ 
ing heat from the air in so doing. It is 
stated that it is possible under good con¬ 
ditions to keep the interior of this icele-s 
refrigerator at a temperature of approx¬ 
imately 55 degrees, when that of the out¬ 
side air may be as high as 95 degrees. 
Rapid evaporation of the water through 
its cloth covering isiessential to the high¬ 
est efficiency of the iceless refrigerator 
It must he placed in a good circulation of 
air and away from the sun. The thick¬ 
ness of the cloth is also important. Too 
Interior T'icio of Icclcss Refrigerator 
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The Closed Refrigerator Ready for Use 
