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air may have free circulation. In two or three weeks it 

 will be fit for use. 



Cider may then be added, from time to time, in small 

 quantities, taking care that no larger quantity of it be 

 added at any one time than there is vinegar in the cask. 



LABOR SAVING SOAP. 



To make it, take two pounds of sal. soda, two pounds 

 of yellow bar soap, ten quarts of water, or in like proportion. 

 Cut the soap into thin slices, and boil altogether two hours, 

 and then strain through a cloth into a tight box or tub ; let 

 it cool, and it is fit for use. Do not let it freeze. 



To use it : put the clothes in soak the night before you 

 wash. The next morning put your water into your kettle 

 or boiler. To every two pails of water, add about one pound 

 of the soap. As soon as the water with its dissolved soap 

 begins to boil, wring out the clothes from the water in 

 which they had been at soak during the night, and put 

 them into the boiling water, without any rubbing. Let 

 them boil one hour, then suds and rinse them, and they 

 will be clean and white. They will need no rubbing, 

 except a little on such places as are soiled, and for that 

 no wpjsh- board will be required. The clothes should be 

 rinsed in two waters. 



Colored and woollen clothes must not be boiled as above, 

 but may be washed in the suds weakened with water. 

 The clothes will last longer by the use of this soap, and 

 much labor will be saved. 



Six pounds of sal. soda, six pounds of bar soap, and 

 thirty quarts of water, will make about fifty pounds of 

 the soap. The soda costs about eight cents a pound, and 

 the bar soap eight cents a pound. 



A pint measure will hold a pound of the labor-saving 

 soap. This will save the trouble of weighing every time. 



