ICE IN THE SICK-ROOM

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 19, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 40.

ICE IN THE SICK-ROOM.

To keep ice in the sick-room, cut a piece of flannel about nine inches square, and secure it by a ligature about the mouth of an ordinary tumbler so as to leave the cup-shaped depression of flannel within the tumbler to about half its depth. In the flannel cup so formed pieces of ice may be preserved many hours, all the longer if a piece of flannel from four to five inches square be used as a loose cover to the ice cup. Cheap flannel with comparatively open meshes is preferable, as the water easily drains through it, and the ice is kept quite dry.—Selected.