The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-10
ANOTHER WAY TO SAVE.
Make Your Own Soap Like Grand
mother Used to Do and Help Gut
Cost of Existence In Kenosha.

Cost of Existence In Kenosha.
A new way to reb the garbage pail
and decrease the II. G. of L. is to make
soap-perhaps it would be more nearly
correct to say an old way revived.
Household soap has risen from $3.50
and SIS box to $3.50 and $3.50, and a
box contains but 100 bars. One young
woman who has an eye to economy has
figured out that she can save enough
to pay the extra charge per month on
flour if she will make her own soap,
and perhaps she can save more. Soap
making needs grease and grease may
be had in fair quantities at no expense
at all if one will save every tag end of
gristle and fat on the meat, the waste
that has heretofore gone to the gar
bage pail.
How to Change Fat to Soap.
To make soap out of drippings add
one quart of water to two pounds of
fat to remove the salt. Heat and add
slices of potato to clarity. When the
fat is cold remove it from the water.
For So pounds of this fat use 2 table
spoonfuls of borax, can of I've and
212 quarts of water. Add the borax
and I've to the water and when the mix
ture has become cold, after the chemi-
cal action, add it to the fat. Beat five
minutes and set aside. Next morning
cut it into pieces, add 21a quarts of
water and bring to the boiling point
Pour into boxes lined with cloth Git
sets quickly and after five or six
hours cut into bars. The soap will be
ready for use in three weeks, after the
I've has worked on the fat.
Soap is Quickly Made.
When flank fat is used, grind, try
out to separate the fat from the tissue.
and proceed according to the foregoing
directions.
1t takes only three hours to make
good soap which is less than half the
price of a poor grade.
In Days of Old.
Many a housewife of today remem-
bers how her mother or her grandmoth-
er made soap and has recollections of
the great iron soap kettle which hung
on the crane erected over an out of
doors fire where the soap was cooked,
IN quantities of many gallons at
time. They will also remember the
stone stabbed ash vat where the ash
deposits of the winter fires were dumped
ready for the spring soap making, for
In those days one did not get I've by
going to the grocer and demanding a
can, but by running water through this
ash filed vat, in manner known to
the thorough going housekeeper of
thirty and more years ago.
Room No Object Then.
Any who remembers the "soft'' soap
that stood in barrels in the woodshed
store room to grow "mild'' for the
years consumption will remember how
effective the molassessy mass was when
it was dipped up by the cupful and
allowed to drizzle into the dishpan, or
when it was put into the laundry tub
or on the kitchen floor when the time
came for the daily scrubbing. No
trace Of grease ever remained on dishes
washed with "soft" soap. Clothes
grew white when it was applied and
the floors never had spots that could
withstand its attacks. If Kenosha
housewives will try making soap, they
never again will resort to that from
the stores, for beside the value of the
soap as a cleanser there is the com
Portable feel that the article is clean
and is not manufactured from the fats
of the carcasses of animals who died
from disease and were turned over to
the renderers for soap making, which
is where the manufacturers of cheap
soaps often get their fats.