• 1906. 
299 
The Rural Patterns. 
The Eton coat and circular skirt shown 
would combine to make a very attractive 
Spring suit. The Eton is made with the 
fronts and the back, stole fronts and vest 
and is closed at the front. The turn-over 
collar finishes the neck and the tiny re- 
vers give a distinctive air to the whole. 
The sleeves are mounted upon plain lin¬ 
ings, which can be faced to form the cuffs 
when full length is desired. The quan¬ 
tity of material required for the medium 
size is 3^4 yards 21, 3 yards 27 or 1$4 
6294 Tucked Eton with Veit 
32 to 40 bust. 
» 
yards 44 inches wide with 1% yards of 
velvet. *4 yard of lace for revers or 54 
yard if long sleeves are used, and 3 yards 
of silk for lining. The pattern 5294 is 
cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40- 
inch bust measure; price 10 cents. 
The skirt that gives a circular effect yet 
is divided into gores, is a well deserved 
favorite. It gives all the graceful lines 
and folds of the circular model while the 
fact of its being cut in sections does away 
with the tendency to sag, that is the one 
objection to that favorite model. The 
skirt is cut in six gores with an additional 
piece at the center front, over which the 
fropt edges are arranged. These front 
edges are turned under to form hems arid 
the closing can be made at the back or 
beneath the right front as may be liked. 
The quantity of material required for the 
medium size is 8 % yards 27, 5*4 yards 44 
or 52 inches wide when material has fig¬ 
ure or nap; 7 yards 27, 5 yards 55 or 4 
yards 52 inches wide when it has not. The 
pattern 5305 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 
26, 28, 30 and 32-inch waist measure; 
price 10 cents._ 
Soap and Laundry Notes. 
We make a nice soap with one can of 
potash dissolved in one quart of cold 
water, add five pounds of clean grease, 
pour on to the potash, stir, heat hot, turn 
into tub; add four quarts of boiling water, 
53U-J Six Gored Circular Skirt, 
22 to 32 waist. 
mix, repeat until enough is made. It looks 
bke thick cream when cold; grows hard 
enough to cut out as wanted. We like it 
that way, as it keeps well and takes less 
rcom than soft soap. For laundry cut in 
bits and dissolve in hot water. If soft 
soap is preferred add nine quarts of hot 
water to above quantity. The soft soap 
of years ago was made with lye leached 
from ashes boiled, with fat; a hard job. 
Perhaps the way we wash may interest 
some one.. Rub the soiled spots with the 
soap, put into cold water, heat, but do not 
boil, as that sets the dirt. Put in a barrel 
and pound with the same water; have the 
boiler full of clean hot water, wring out 
the white clothes, put in tub of clean 
warm water, do the colored clothes in the 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
suds; turn out, rinse barrel, put in warm 
water and pound again after being rubbed 
in the first. Use plenty of soap in the 
first water in boiler, and with soft water 
washing is not as hard as the old way, 
and the white clothes need but little rub¬ 
bing. The underwear goes in with the 
white clothes (but don’t boil.) a. b. 
Making Soft Soap. 
Exact recipes were not common with 
our foremothers, and the making of soft 
soap was more common in their days 
than in ours. But any of us like a barrel 
of old-fashioned lye soap, and though the 
manufacture of the soap is hard work 
the process is not very difficult. Secure 
a strong large barrel and remove the 
heads. Have a platform built with wide 
board in the center slanting towards the 
front and high enough so that a pail or 
large jar will stand under the edge to 
catch the drip. I use a five-pail brass 
kettle. Set the barrel in the stand in such 
a way that there will be a little space be¬ 
tween barrel and platform through which 
the lye may run. Cover the bottom of 
the barrel with clean straw, throw in a 
peck of slaked lime, and then fill with 
good sound wood ashes, which have been 
kept under cover, and which have not 
been mixed with coal ashes. As each layer 
of ashes is put in pound it down hard, so 
that the water will not penetrate too eas¬ 
ily. When the barrel is full, scoop out a 
place in the top of the ashes which will 
hold two quarts or more. Fill this with 
water and have a pail of water and a dip¬ 
per near the leach, so that water can he 
put in at frequent intervals. When the 
lye begins to run, which will probably be 
within 36 hours, watch it, and if not 
styong dip it back into the leach. It is 
usually strong after the first two quarts 
run out. When two large pailfuls of lye, 
which will hold up a potato, have been 
secured, pour it into a potash kettle and 
add the soap grease. It is not necessary 
that this should be rendered fat. Scraps 
from lard trying, meat rinds, etc., will 
be dissolved by the strong lye. Stir the 
mass a few times and leave it in the kettle 
a day or two before boiling. In the mean¬ 
time keep water on the leach and save the 
weaker lye which it will produce. Choose 
a pleasant day for boiling the soap, as it 
must be done out of doors on most farms. 
Boil until the grease is all dissolved. If 
any free greases rises on top after an 
hour or two of boiling skim it off and 
save it for another boiling. Take a tea¬ 
spoonful of the strong soap in a saucer 
and add weak lye to it, a teaspoonful at 
a time, until the soap thickens nicely. Re¬ 
member the proportion required. Make 
a bag of mosquito netting and strain the 
hot soap, measuring it by pailfuls and to 
each pailful put into the barrel add the 
required amount of lye, stirring it well 
before putting in a new supply. If the 
supply of weak lye is not quite sufficient 
rain water may be used for part. 
New soap is very penetrating, and re¬ 
quires a strong barrel. Many a tired 
soap-maker has gone into her cellar the 
day after the soap was made to find that 
a treacherous barrel had allowed the soap 
to flood her cellar floor. It is wise to 
keep a supply of old soap on hand, as the 
new is likely to irritate one’s hands and 
give unnecessary pain, as well as to take 
the color from calico and other colored 
clothes. SARA A. LITTLE. 
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BARGAINS IN 
MEDICINE. 
A woman once wrote us 
that she was not going to 
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more because it cost too 
much. Said she could get 
some other emulsion for less 
money. Penny wise and 
pound foolish. Scott’s Emul¬ 
sion costs more because it is 
worth more—costs more to 
make. We could make 
Scott’s Emulsion cost less by 
using less oil. Could take 
less care in making it, too. 
If we did, however, Scott’s 
Emulsion wouldn’t be the 
standard preparation of cod 
liver oil as it is to-day. 
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They make dresses whose appear¬ 
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