The Osceola times., 1881-03-26
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English OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Cause
OF fDisesse-HousehoId soap-Making
About Tea KettIes-Remc-
dies for Headache.

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surprise many American women Every
penny spent in the house goes down in
The "fousekeeper's book" with which
every mistress of household is pro-
yided. Every bill is filed away carefully
when receipted. In fact, a perfect sys
TEN of order prevails, which enables
every man TO know exactly what ii costs
him 10 keep up his home. In that coun-
try every expenditure is made to bear
lis proper relation to the income re-
ceived. House rent must be only such
percentage, table outlay go much, SER
wants wages so much, children's school
ing so much, aims giving so much, and
if at the end Of the year 1t is found that
the income has been exceeded these reo'
pie Immediately proceed to reduce items
in every department. The general style
of their living remains about the same,
but it is necessarily not quite so genuine.
IGNORANCE CAUSE OF DISEASE.
The more thoroughly the causes of
diseases are understood, the more and
more they are found traceable to vio-
lation Of the hygienic laws. If the rava-
ges of cholera, of yellow fever and ty-
phoid NAV be controlled in agreat meas
ure by the observance of such laws why
may not scarlet fever measles and
whooping cough-these scourges of in
fant life-be prevented, or very much
limited? The prevailing sentiment that
all children must necessarily have these
nature of physiology or in the principles
of hygiene. The fact is already well es-
tablished that the spread and violence
OF scarlet fever, by isolation, cleanliness
and ventilation, are very much modified,
and, in some instances, entirely prevent
ed. We believe the time will come
when measles, scarlet fever and whoop-
ing cough, which now destroy such null
titudes of children, will become, in
measure, things of the past. II is not
only the great amount Of sickness and
mortality occassioned directly by these
diseases but the impaired constitutions
and other complaints consequent upon
them, that may also be prevented.
When the community realizes fully that
the means of preserving health especi-
ally in early life, are placed, in great
measure. in its own hands, u far higher
estimate will be placed upon the value of
human life; and the responsibility for
its preservation will be found to depend
in great measure upon human efforts.
DR.. Nathan IHen.
HOUSEHOLD SOAP MAKING.
Mr.. w. Menzies gives in The Chemist
and Druggist the following practical re-
ceipt for making soap without boiling:
Take exactly ten pounds Of double re-
fined 9s per cent caustic soda powder
(Greenbank), put it in any can or jar
with forty-fve pounds -four and halt
gallons of water, stir it once or twice,
when it will dissolve Immediately and
become quite hot; let it stand until the
I've thus made is cold. Weigh ont and
place in any convenient vessel for mix
ing exactly seventy five pounds of clean
grease or tallow, or oil mot mineral
oil. If grease or tallow be used, melt it
slowly over the fire until it is liquid and
Just warm-say, temperature not over 100
degrees Fahrenheit. If oil be used, no
heating is required. Pour the lye slowly
into the melted grease or oil in small
stream continuously, at the same time
stirring with flat wooden stirrer about
three inches broad continue gently stir
ring until the lye and grease are thor
oughly combined and in appearance like
honey. DO not stir too long or the mix
tore will separate itself fagain. The time
required varies somewhat with the
weather and the kind of ta.low, grease
or oil used; from fifteen to twenty min
utes will be enough. When the mixing
is completed pour off the liquid soap into
an old square box for mould sufficient
~ large to hold it, previously dampening
the sides with water, SO as to prevent the
soap sticking. Wrap up the box well
with Old blankets, or, better still, put il
in warm place until the next day when
the box will contain block of $50
pounds of soap, which can afterward be
cut up with wire. Remember the
chief points in the above directions.
which must be exactly followed. The
I've must be allowed to cool. If melted
tallow or grease be used, il must not be
more than warm. The exact weight of
double refined 9S per cent. powdered
caustic soda and tallow or oil must be
taken; also the I've must be stirred into
the grease. not grease or oil added to the
lie. If the grease or tallow used be not
clean, or contains salt, it must be ''ren-
dered," or purified, previous to use, that
is to say, boiled with water and allowed
TO become hard again to throw out the
Impurities. Any salt present will spoil
the whole operation entirely, but dis
colored or rancid grease or tallow is Just
rs good as fresh for soap-making pur-
poses. If the soap turn out sticky and
uneven it has not been thoroughly
mixed. lfvery sharp to the taste, too
much soda has been taken. If soft, mild
and greasy, too little soda has been
used. In either case it must now he
thrown into a pan and brought to boil
with little more water. In the first
place boiling is all that is necessary: in
the other instances very little oil or
little more of the double refined pow
dered caustic soda must be adde Il to the
water. These things will never happen,
however, if the directions are exactly
followed, and after the soap has been
made several times with the experience
thus gained, the process is extremely
easy, and the result will be always a
good batch of soap. Beef tallow makes
the hardest soap, mutton fat n rather
softer soap; of oils, cotton-seed il the
cheapest and best, but the soap is much
softer, lathering very freely indeed
Ordinary household fat or drippling will
make u nice soap, and in many places
can be obtained at trifling cost, and
in exchange for goods sold. Such grease,
however, must be carefully examined,
for salt which it often contains. II will
be evident that any smaller quantity of
soap can be made at time, according to
the above directions, by taking the in
gradients in exact proportion. 1t is not
advisable to make more than double the
quantity prescribed, AZ il is difficult to
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