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LOOK TO YOUR FREEZER
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of a platoon of convalescents. For a time she was faced with gorging herself with the stuff or letting it grow stale. Then she discovered that freeZ' ing preserved candy. So into the freezer it went. She still has some today, and finds it as fresh and flavorperfect as when it was stored.
Charlie has his own special use for the freezer. He buys his cigarettes 10 cartons at a time, along with a couple boxes of cigars to have on hand for guests. To keep them fresh, he pops them all into the freezer, where they stay fresh for months in their original cellophane.
Guthrie, Oklahoma, provides a testimonial on the use of the home freezer as a safe for storing valuables. During a flood, a freezer was under muddy water for 24 hours. When the water subsided, several inches of mud was found clinging to the sides. The freezer was hosed down and the lid raised. Not a drop of water had entered the cabinet, and the contents were in perfect condition!
Many models are, in fact, equipped with locks, so that the freezer becomes
— Currier
a veritable safe. Home freezers are fireproof, too. What a place to keep jewelry, insurance policies, income tax notes, deeds and other valuable papers and goods! The freezer becomes a safe deposit box right in the home.
Home freezers fit into the business picture. Many veterinarians use it to freeze small cans of water for ice packs in shipping biological specimens to testing laboratories. Hospitals frequently use the home freezer for storing crushed ice for packs and other medical purposes.
Bait salesmen have used it for storing fish bait. Kennels and farms freeze foods for dogs, mink, rabbits, and other small animals. Many stores use home freezers instead of commercial freezers for storing ice cream bars, popsicles, and other dairy products.
There are many other uses of the home freezer — both food and non-food uses. Homemakers the country over are learning new uses every day — uses that mean easier living, greater convenience, more economy and leisure. And these are uses that the homemaker doesn't even bargain for when she buys her home freezer.
A woman posed for a picture in front of the fallen pillars of an ancient temple in Greece.
"Don't get the car into the picture," she instructed the photographer, "or my husband will think I ran into the place!" ▲
Driving in the business section of a city, a man tried to edge his car past one driven by a woman, who was trying to park in close quarters. Suddenly the woman's car crashed into his.
Flushed with exasperation, she leaned her head out of the car window. "You could see I was going to do something, stupid," she said. "Why didn't you wait to see what it was?"