Ordering Ice by Pounds
It is often a great annoyance to the busy housewife to accomplish the necessary household tasks and still keep a watchful eye for the ice man's arrival in order to tell him the amount of ice desired. I have eliminated this inconvenience in the following manner: I cut out the figures ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty, etc., from the large-typed calendar, and when I need ice, I attach the necessary figure to the ice card with a clip.
A. C. W., Mass.
Good Housekeeping Cookbook
To keep a timeline perspective, my maternal grandfather was an ice man in Philadelphia. He carried huge blocks of ice up tenement steps for refrigerators. Isn't it a wonder that our grandmothers had any time to quilt?
Until then, keep stitchin' . . .
