The Refrigerator

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Aug 25, 1904

A TRAP for the thoughtless housewife at this season is the refrigerator. Always a menace because of the habit too often formed of keeping food too long, its dangers increase with the hot, humid, sultry days. Once a week at least, take everything out; make a strong suds of boiling water and soda and ammonia and go over every inch of the inside surface. Have a pan of clean hot water with a few drops of some odorless but powerful disinfectant and go over the whole with this; see that the drain has a cloth pushed through it, with clear, hot water, dry thoroughly, and set a saucer of crushed charcoal on the shelf. Charcoal is a perfect absorbent, and a refrigerator can be kept sweet and fresh if these few precautions are observed. Never put anything in hot; never leave anything decayed; always wash the ice.—Selected.