1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
823 
A Good Homemade Soap. 
It is often considered that it does not 
pay to make soap at home nowadays. 
But in a household where there is much 
cooking, waste fats accumulate, and 
their use in soap is a distinct gain. A 
correspondent of the American Kitchen 
Magazine gives the following recipe for 
a soap of unusually good quality. The 
ingredients are three pints of cold water, 
one can of potash, one large tablespoon- 
ful of borax, one small cupful of am¬ 
monia. 
“I take every small piece of fat and 
grease and try it out; when I have a 
five-pound pail of it all tried out I make 
my soap. I put the potash into cold 
water; it will limmediately become hot; 
then let it cool. It will take about 30 
or 40 minutes to become cold. By put¬ 
ting the pan into cold water it will cool 
sooner. When it is cold put in the am¬ 
monia and borax. Strain the grease 
through a soft cheesecloth, and add it 
and stir slowly until thick as honey. Put 
a clean white cloth in the bottom of an 
old dripping pan, then put a piece of 
thick wrapping paper over the cloth. 
Grease this paper; then when the soap is 
thick as honey, pour it in, and when 
hard cut in pieces for use. You will be 
well repaid for making this soap. It will 
float on water, is good for shaving, 
chapped hands or face.” 
Children’s Christmas Gifts. 
In selecting presents for the youngest 
children, the Woman’s Home Com¬ 
panion suggests that at least three kin¬ 
dergarten balls should be included 
among the purchases. Small rubber 
balls may be purchased, and crocheted 
covers made for them of red, blue and 
yellow; orange-green and purple balls 
may be added if the child is not too 
young to appreciate them. It is well to 
have a string to each to swing it by, and 
a swing-bar to which the balls may be 
suspended to swing, which may be made 
easily at home. Children from iy 2 year 
upward will enjoy a box of the Hail- 
mann beads. These consist of spheres, 
cubes and cylinders colored red, orange, 
yellow, green, blue and purple. For 
stringing these there is nothing better 
than a round shoelace. For a child 2*4 
years or more a peg-board and pegs will 
furnish delightful occupation for many 
hours, besides helping to strengthen and 
train the little fingers. Many beautiful 
geometric designs may be made by chil¬ 
dren a little older, or they may make 
pictures with them—flags, houses, barn¬ 
yards, etc. Greater variety may be had 
in the designs by combining the beads 
with the pegs. 
Of course, every child old enough to 
use his fingers at all should own a pair 
of small, dull-pointed scissors. Very 
satisfactory ones may be bought for 10 
cents, though those at 25 are better. 
They should work easily, for the little 
fingers are not strong. Every child 
should also have a supply of colored 
paper (in circles and squares, of various 
sizes, so that they may be folded, cut 
and pasted in designs on sheets of paper, 
or used to decorate the covers of home¬ 
made scrap-books. These circles and 
squares may be bought already cut at 
any kindergarten supply store, or the 
paper may be bought in large sheets and 
cut the desired size. We all know how 
children love colored crayons and paint¬ 
boxes. The Rembrandt boxes at 50 cents 
are good, but one needs to buy a tube of 
Chinese white to tone down the dark 
colors. The Murillo boxes cost a little 
more, but they contain tubes of Chinese 
white and sepia. Set No. 20 of Prang’s 
models for form study and drawing, 
costing only la cents, is another thing 
that furnishes my children with a great 
deal of pleasure. 
Various kinds of blocks are always 
good, but I would like to mention the 
building-rails and the anchor blocks as 
especially desirable; only do not make 
the mistake of getting too large a box of 
blocks, unless for a very large child. My 
oldest boy had great delight in playing 
With his 35-cent box, but after a couple 
of years he was given a box costing $ 6 , 
and it proved so far beyond him, besides 
taking so long to put away, that he 
could not take the same amount of 
pleasure in it. 
For a little child of only a year or two 
large pieces of wood sawed by a car¬ 
penter linto blocks about the size of a 
bar of kitchen soap, will be better than 
anything you can buy. If you are think¬ 
ing of getting a tool-chest, my advice is 
don’t. They are usually a delusion and 
a snare, so far as any real usefulness is 
concerned. Get a real saw and hammer 
of rather small size, some nails. Strips of 
wood, and a box or two from your 
grocer or shoe-dealer, and you will have 
a much better outfit for the small car¬ 
penter than most tool-chests afford. Of 
course, a jack-knife, pencil, chalk and 
ruler should be added if the child hasn’t 
them already. 
Storiettes. 
Sowers of Sunshine. 
“Tellin’ folks, when 'they’re blue and 
down-hearted, to count up their mercies, 
'is all well enough,” said Uncle Silas, in 
the Christian Nation, ‘‘but nine times 
out of 10 the cure’ll act quicker if you 
do the countin’ yourself and tell ’em— 
not the blessin’s they have, but the 
blessin’ they’ve been. If the housework 
goes sort of crooked, and your wife 
comes to the table lookin’ tired and dis¬ 
couraged, it won’t cheer her half so 
much to preach that she ought to be 
thankful for a roof over her head and 
food to eat, as it will to tell her what a 
pleasant home she's always made, and 
that nobody’s cooKing tastes half so 
good as hers. When you meet your min¬ 
ister and he is feeling disheartened, 
afraid he is not the man for the place, 
and that sort of thing, don’t talk to him 
about Paul and Apollos. That’s the time 
for you to remember the little lame wo¬ 
man who says she gets something in 
every Sabbath’s sermon that helps her 
through the week, and how your oldest 
boy said he wouldn’t mind bein’ a min¬ 
ister if he ‘could be as good a one as 
ours.’ Then there’s your neighbor down 
the road, who always seems to have 
hard times. You can praise his garden 
if you can’t do anything else. It will 
cheer Mm, too; it always helps to find 
that somebody else holds you worth 
counting.” 
A Tragedy in Turnips. 
From a New England village, says the 
New York Sun, comes a true story of the 
depths of iniquity that sometimes find 
lodgment in the youthful masculine 
breast. A minister !in a country town, 
his son of 12 or 14 years, and the mem¬ 
bers of the former’s congregation are the 
dramatic personages. In the first scene 
the minister speaks of the coming dona¬ 
tion party. “We haven’t had anything 
given us lately but turnips. I hope they 
won’t bring turnips when it comes to the 
regular donation,” he sighed. Several 
days later James Albert, the son, stood 
tin need of correction. ‘‘You’ll be sorry 
if you lick me,” he said to his father. 
But the minister, refusing to be warned, 
did his duty in the chastising line. The 
day before the party James Albert was 
busy. He was taken with a sudden fond¬ 
ness for calling, and from early morning 
till late at night he kept it up, visiting 
nearly all the families of the church. 
As he left the last 'house he said: 
“Coming to the donation, aren’t you? 
Be sure to, now. O, by the way, don’t 
say anything about it, but Father’s awful 
fond o? turnips. There mightn’t be any, 
so if you’d just as lief, why don't you 
bring some.” 
“Why, of course, James Albert. Why 
didn’t you say so, first off? We’ve got 
plenty to spare.” 
James Albert went home with peace in 
his heart. The eventful night came. At 
the first ring of the bell the minister 
himself went to the door and met a lead- 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s SootMng Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
ing church member, who came accom¬ 
panied hy his family and by a large bas¬ 
ketful of turnips. The next family that 
came brought turnips, and so did the 
next. Each family as it came carried 
from a dozen to 20 turnips, and one man, 
who had extensive gardens, brought a 
wagonload. The entrance was the same 
in each instance, and the remarks varied 
little. “Well, Elder, I’ve got something 
here you’ll like. That son of yours tells 
me you know how to enjoy a good tur¬ 
nip,” was what 'the first man said, and 
that’s about what the last man said, too. 
The minister could have wept, if he 
hadn’t been so angry, when he looked at 
the results of his donation party—a 
small amount of cash and a cellarful of 
turnips. 
“James Albert,” he said, with a pecu¬ 
liar sepulchral ring in his voice. “You 
will eat those three times a day all Win¬ 
ter and as long as they last.” 
China Closet, 
*10.95. 
Sterling Match 
Box, 85c, 
Lamps, 
25c. to $25. 
JULIUS 
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