If you have no refrigerator, it is possible to buy a refrigerator which has in it the ice-making machines. But before you buy the outfit you must be very careful to know whether this refrigerator comes up to the most stringent tests of the ordinary first-class refrigerator, for this reason: The average refrigerator in which ice is used has to be efficient because it must keep itself dry with actual ice evaporation going on, it must keep a cold chest with an actual diminishing ice supply, it must keep ice melting yet staying in spite of weather and surrounding atmosphere. To make the circulation of air effect these processes a refrigerator requires fine construction. The refrigerating manufacturers have put the most superb effort into making a first-class refrigerator, and if you are not convinced that the combination outfit has as good a refrigerator as you can get with the installed outfit, it is wisest to buy the refrigerator and install the ice-making machine. There are excellent refrigerators on the market; apply rigid tests and accept nothing short of the best. The machinery can, in some instances, be put on top of the refrigerator or in the cellar or in the next room or right next to the refrigerator. In some cases the machine, consisting of pump and condenser and motor, takes up no more room than 1¹⁄₂′ × 1¹⁄₄′ × 3¹⁄₂′. This can be put in place as simply as installing a new gas stove. In the best of the iceless machines the refrigerator maintains a lower temperature than the iced ones in both winter and summer. At a cost of ten cents per kilowatt hour, and with ice at fifty cents per hundred pounds, it is cheaper per day to use the iceless refrigerator. There is, too, less dampness in the iceless refrigerator than even in the best iced ones, due, of course, to the absence of the ice itself. This lower percentage of humidity should not be taken as a reflection on the low percentage of humidity that can be maintained by the iced refrigerator of the best make, which is a percentage low enough to dry towels and keep matches dry. The iceless refrigerator does these things: 1. Reduces the cost of refrigeration. 2. Maintains a constant low temperature regardless of weather and automatically starts up “cold making” when you raise the temperature by opening the doors. 3. Operates automatically when once installed and is reliable, clean and noiseless. 4. Permits you to make neat little cubes of ice for your tumblers, which give your table distinction. 5. Gives you ice of which you know the clean source. 6. Operates by electricity. 7. Needs no refrigerant for years. 8. Is oiled very seldom. 9. Is easily kept clean. 10. Obviates the uncertain ice man and his dirty boots trailed across the kitchen floor. 11. There is no ice-box drain to clean, no water dripping to worry about and therefore no extra effort.