The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-15


soap msn sweeps and scrubs the deck A
simple recipe. namely, to get the discarded
grease Of impTovident families and come
pound It With : little I'VE and potash.
makes I'll the difference between the
sOap Ling and poverty. The soap king
sometimes adds the candle business to his
other trade. He deals In wax from the
bees, and somewhat in coal oil. rs IN as
sistant TO the home fat business But
everywhere he compounds advertising
with thrift If he would succeed. and il
must be confessed that nothing suits man.
KIND 30 much IS good soap. Cleanliness
being next to godliness. soap Is the priest
Of that cleanliness. There is . smell about
hne soap which hardly anything in this
world has.
As people 60 forward in the social and
ciyilisrd scale they do not draw nearer 10
the the sIgels. but nearer to soap. The bub-
all the tints Of The rainbow. There is CO.
herence about soap which holds Q little
drop of water together so that IL can ex-
pand under the breath until il is as big as
your head. Some men love their toilet
and get good dividends ont of atten-
ton 10 il in white teeth, white
hands, excellent complexion. and often the
attention to the toilet ia man is assisted hy
clean appttites- he who washes himself
we'll Is more apt to love champagne than
wills Ky and in the course Of time. from
very love of his compls xion, he may love
water better than champagne.
The women 20 through Q discipline to
preserve their beauty, which also preserves
their virtue. A man, BY resps ctine his
physical nature, may become more than
. gentleman. and may draw bis lie OUT to
long and patriarchal conclusions. It is
the easiest thing in the word 10 make
soap, but it is hard thing to make the
best soap; and having made the
best soap 1t Is one OF the triumphs of life to
those cheap little cakes, hich cost but the
price OF . newspaper or the blacking of
Your shoes, disseminating among the
100000 of people, until there il .
cry IS wide as the continent and
hardly bounded by the ocean. OF "Giye
US Jones' soap and no other" The
wives swear ny Jones' soap. as in other
author, or actor. Your have the soap
which scrubs and will not wash Yon
have again the soap which wash and viii
not scrub. They favor this dicarded
grease with perfumes collected from The
tropics. from the palms beyond the sea.
perceive these SOAP kings around me at
the watering places. Some of them are old
men Others are bright young fellows.
with young wives and mere children, who
have caught the ambitious spirit of the age
of soap. have spent their 10000 al
really IN advertising. and expect 10 reach
the day when they shall spend one-half MIL
hon year 10 iel the people that there
is no soap like like Brooks, no soap ike
Smiths Tue soap man Is generally good
liver. h delights to have q fine cottage
by the seaside. In the city he likes TO
have fine turnout. Meantime the infinite
ramificaiions Of collecting soap-grease go
on, and on one side of life he looks like q
magician who never dabbled in anything or
binary. ana on the other side bis laboratory
is q mass OF old kitchen grease COM
pounded by the chemist, so that all seems
vanity.