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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
Now you must make a cloth cover for your pail in the 
shape of a tall hat. The rim of the hat must reach out 
to the edges of your case and be tacked there. Take out 
your pail, fit this cloth cover into the hole and tack the 
edge evenly to the box. 
You must now make a cushion to fill the rest of the 
box, packing it full of the crumpled paper. Make hinges 
for the lid of your box and put some sort of fastener 
on the front to keep the lid down tight. 
Now you have your fireless cooker. When your oat- 
meal or your stew, or your chicken, or your vegetables 
have boiled ten or fifteen minutes on the stove in your 
agate pail, clap on its cover, set it into the nest, push the 
cushion into the top of the cooker, clamp down the lid, 
and your work is done, for the cooking will go merrily on 
all alone by itself in your fireless cooker. 
While you are making your fireless cooker, remember 
that the thermos bottle is made on the same principle. 
And remember, too, that your non-conducting packing 
material will keep heat out just as well as it keeps heat in. 
In the summer time you may wish to keep your ice cream 
cold for a while in your fireless cooker. Perhaps you 
will see how this might help in a hot summer’s day and 
what a comfort a fireless cooker might prove in a sick 
room. 
The Ice Chest. How It Is Made 
In taking care of food we must be provided with a cool 
place, for the storage of milk, butter, cream, and all 
cooked food that may spoil. In summer this is especially 
important; in an apartment, and in most city houses the 
ice chest is needed all the year around; in the country, 
it is needed only in the warm months. 
The ice chest is built much as the fireless cooker is 
made. Its case is usually made of wood, its packing 
material must be non-conducting, and its lining must be 
