1864. 



THE ILLmOIS FAKMER. 



243 



Cold Water Laundry Soap. 



The abeve is the title of a quack specific for 

 washing, and which smacks strongly of h-u-m-b-u-g. 

 We have never known one of these quack receipts 

 of any value, and should the thousandth one in this 

 line falsify our expectations, we shall soon begin 

 to look for the dawning of the millennium — of 

 washing day. 



Read the following and then hold on to your 

 five dollars until you know that it is actually all 

 that it is represented to be. Remember, these 

 extracts are from the semi or special advertising 

 departments of the city papers. It will be seen 

 that the extract from the Prairie Farmer is very 

 guarded, just enough to save the advertising fee, 

 and just as little to overlook the bad effects to 

 the fabrics by the use of soda and other injurious 

 material. As we put in this advertisement for the 

 benefit of our readers, no charge is made to the 

 soap man. — Ed. • 



"Sate tour Fuel — ^Interesting to Housekeep- 

 ers — Cold Water Laundry Soap — Patent Ap- 

 plied FOR. — Any person can, over an ordinary fire, 

 make in twenty minutes, sufficient soap to last any 

 family for three months, taking any common soap 

 as a base. It is not injurious to the finest fabric. 

 Read the following opinions of the press. 



[From the Chicago Evening Journal.] 



Housekeepers will be interested in learning that 

 the principal objection to the recurrence of wash- 

 ing day that has hitherto prevailed is done away 

 with by, to them, one of the greatest discoveries 

 of modern times. Dr. H. Huntington has discov- 

 ered a compound in the form of soap, which obvi- 

 ates the necessity for fire, hot water or boiling the 

 clothes. This soap has been tested by the family 

 of a gentleman in connection with this office, and 

 found to be perfect in its work. Our readers in 

 city and country will be visited by Dr. Hunting- 

 ton or his agents, who will offer the receipts for 

 saie. 



[From the Chicago'Daily Tribune.] 

 H. Huntington, of this city, has invented a soap 

 which is destined to work a revolution in the old- 

 fashioned methods of washing as now applied in 

 the domestic economy. By the use of this soap 

 the housekeeper saves the fuel, labor and expense. 

 No fire is used at all, thus saving coal and wood, 

 which is no small item in these days of high pri- 

 ces. The labor is reduced at least one-ha&; the 

 clothes are not injured, while in the long run it is 

 an immense saving in expense. Mr. Huntington 

 has certificates — some of which are published in 

 our advertising columns — the chai;acter of which 

 will convince any one of the merits of the article 

 in question. Mr. H. is now supplying recipes, and 

 wie understand that arrangements are about being 

 made for the manufacture of this soap. He may 

 be addressed at present at the Hevete fiouse in 

 this city. 



[From the Prairie Farmer.] 



"We liave tried the new soap in our family for 

 two weeks past, and can second all that has been 



said of it. It is an advantage both in the saving 

 of fuel and labor, enabling a washing to be done 

 much quicker and equally as well as by the old 

 way. 

 The following Certificates speak for themselves :; 



Ghicago, June 20, 1864. 

 Dr. H. Huntington — Sir: — Having given the 

 'Cold Water Laundry Soap' a thorough practical 

 test, I have no hesitation in saying thai it will 

 wash as well, if not better, than by the old me- 

 thod, without the least injury to the clothes, sav- 

 ing all the fuel and one-half the labor. I would 

 confidently recommend its use to all families doing 

 their own washing. If properly used, it is cheaper 

 at double the price of ordinary soap, and cheaper 

 than soft soap at one dollar a barrel. 



W. J. Ellknwood, 

 Proprietor of Chicago Laundry. 

 J. K Bottsfoed, 

 Of the firm ofBottsford, Kimball & Co., 109, 

 Lake street. 



Chicago, June 21, '64. 

 The washing qualities of the 'Cold Water Laun- 

 dry soap' have been tested at my house, and I 

 cheerfully admit that the results were fully equal 

 to those of the old system, thus saving fuel and 

 labor, and being enabled to do the washing in a 

 cool comfortable way. 



Thos. Wilson. , '._ / 

 Cashier Chicago Evening Journal. 

 H. Huntington, M. D. — Sia : — I have used your 

 'Cold Water Family Soap' in my kitchen with the 

 most satisfactory resnlts. It is a vast improve- 

 ment upon the soap in ordinary and general use. 

 Not an ounce of fuel was used in doing a week's 

 washing on the occasion referred to, and the work 

 was accomplished with less than one-half the labor. 

 I can confidently recommend this compound. 

 : Yours very truly, 



A. H. BODMAH, " 



Ass't Ed. City Department ChL Trib. 



The undersigned will sell Rights for Counties 

 and Towns. Agents wanted in every Town in the 

 West, to sell Rights for family use. Address 



H. Huntinotok. 



P. 0. Box 2107, Chicago. 



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Wht Hogs Eat Ashes. — Mr. Mechi, of Tip-Tree 

 Hall, England, has discovered that pigs, when 

 shut up to fatten, are fond of cinders, and improve 

 in condition by eating a certain portion of them 

 every day. Some persons are unable to account 

 for this singular propensity in swine. Poultry are 

 very fond of egg shells, lime, sand, &c., and it is 

 well known the substances are necessary in order 

 to form the shells of eggs, and to furnish material 

 for the bones of fowls. Now it is reasonable to 

 suppose that swine eat ashes and cinders for the 

 purpose of supplying material for their bones, and 

 this singular instinct in animals so low in the scale 

 of intelligence, is truly wonderful, for ashes con- 

 tain the ingredients which are necessary to form 

 bones, viz : clay, silicia gelatinized and made solu- 

 ble by the fire. When hogs are at large, they take 

 in clay and silicia with their food, and eat bones ' 

 and roots which contain the necessary ingredients; 

 but when they are pent up they endeavor to sup- 

 ply the material necessary for keeping up their 

 frames by devouring ashes and cinders. Let them 

 have plenty of them. — J^oek Journal. 



