We think probably the difficulty with the owners of refrigerators is that they have the ice box in mind and it is an inherited notion that the food must be in close proximity to the ice. This paragraph may seem a digression, but it is purposely put in to emphasize the fact that the ice box and the ice refrigerator are two very distinct and different things. Therefore, be it remembered that in the refrigerator you must not waste the ice by cuddling warm provisions next it, because your ice is like a battery. It, too, makes currents--not electric, but air currents. Now then, when we have the ice-making currents, what happens to the air of varying degrees of temperature? The coldest air is at the bottom of the refrigerator (of course we are always thinking of the best refrigerators) because cold air is heavier than warm air and the warm air rises. Therefore, if you have odorous things do not put them in the ice chamber because the air starting down will carry odors along. Put the odorous things and the things that should be kept coldest on the lower shelves. In some chests the currents of air are so good that onions and butter never exchange compliments--a highly snobbish society where there is little amalgamation. One buyer of an expensive refrigerator said that his refrigerator was a great disappointment because the ice chamber leaked. Now this was a strange thing, for these ice chambers are made of the best workmanship known to refrigeratordom. Everything was questioned: Did you keep your ice chamber full? The reply: Yes. Did you keep things other than ice in the ice chamber? The orthodox answer came: No. Do you close the door of the ice chest completely? Answer: Yes. So the repair man went to the house to give the erring chest a stethoscoping and found that the floor of the ice chest’s compartment was a little uneven and the water was forced from the melting ice into foreign channels and escaped through the front of the ice box, dropping in streaking lines on the front façade. This is but a minor point, yet the refrigerator or the stove or the vacuum cleaner or the anything is often blamed for misplacements, lack of care and ignorance on the part of the operator, and this article is meant to forestall a very few of them. Here, then, are some things to watch out for: 1. Keep the doors of the refrigerator closed always. If they don’t close easily, see to it that something is done to make them close. 2. If you have a refrigerator with a lot of movable parts it is well to remove them and immerse in hot water occasionally. But don’t buy one that has many outgoing parts; it’s unnecessary and a constant bother to adjust.