New-York tribune., 1918-10-20

Gently installed plants for extracting
grease from garbage have an opportunity
to save enough in year to make 10,00o, ,0o3
pounds of nitro-glycerine. This is sufficient
for the powder charge of 100000 French
70 nm. shells. You didn't know, did you,
that the longest range gun in the world
is the garbage can? Yet, by turning your
kitchen refuse over to a grease extracting
plant you can strafe Fritz from distance
of 5000 miles. Neither, perhaps, did you
associate soap with garbage. At first glance
the two pretty far removed Yet
the years yield Of fatty acids from these
same cities would be enough to make some
200,000,000 twelve-ounce cakes of soap, two
for every man, woman and child in America.
THE system of extracting shells anil
soap from the hitherto -ery humble gar
bage pail is not yet fully developed.
Housewives who perhaps do not realize tho
patriotic necessity of separating differens
types of refuse continue to mix broken
bottles, tin and bits of crockery with
the food waste.
"The hard pressed manufacturers in this
country have turned at last to the peanut
and the pine tree. By mixing peanut OIL
terial is produced. Resin, though not
strictly an oil, behaves very much like one
when boiled with alkali The soap it pro-
duces has a fragrance that brings menor
les of dusk in deep pine forest But be
ware of rubbing it on your white linen
skirt or georgette crepe waist--unless voe
want them speckled with little brown spots
Resin, which is the cheapest of all the new
substitutes, is good servant anywhere
except in the laundry. Like many a pres
ent-day maid, it objects to cleaning house.
and doing the washing, too
when science called the soap roll among
the nations China came forward with three
gifts. The first is the talow tree, which
furnishes a substance very much like ami.
NAL fat from the covering on its seeds
Though naturally green, this vegetable tsl
low can easily be bleached white. The sosp
1t produces cannot be distinguished FROM
the animal tallow soap of other years.
"Her second gift is the soap nut tree.
which has almost as many different usss
as hairpin in the hands of the ayeraga
woman. The million or more of these trees
to be found in California and Florida Are
treasured almost solely because of then,
height and their graceful foliage. But few
OF their admirers know that their wood
when polished will make a high grade %
furniture, that the leaves are excellent fod
oer, that the nuts valuable because o.
thelr medicinal qualities, that the extrac.
iorhs oa is for foaring carbonate3 drinks
ano mat the hulls make as good a lather
as manufactured soap. The best pars
ABOUT them is that ehey require no pre-
iiminary treatment. When you wish t,s
WASH your hands you merely walk out il,
the garden and pick your SOAP from +he
tree.
"Chlnas third gift came in the form ~
rice bran soap The almond-eyed beauty
when she wishes to appear especially
charming ties bit of rice bran in n cloth.
DIPS 1t in water and rubs it over her ex
panslve face. People of the Occident have
mistaken belief to the effect that +h.,
cleansing properties depend entirely on thc
amount of lather. Rice bran makes mn
iather' but 1t removes the dirt very ef
fectively just the same America has adont-
cd TINS idea with surprising readiness. Al
ready several chemists have naten.ed
processes of boiling up finely ground corn.
peas or rice with caustc soda. The nrodur.
not only cleanses. but sterilizes. thereh,-
mcnlc01of
pest OF which are but mildly antiseptic.
while chemists are searchinr the cen-
turies and continents for soap substitute.
housewives can do their part in the four
walls OF their homes. And it is part %
considerable Importance, too No woman
who calls herself patriot should nselect,
1t, that is certain
First of all, SAVE FATS. sepyeeata
your garbage from ashes. cans. pspers
ETC.. and see that the food refuse reaches -
grease extracting plant. Secondly. don't
think that a thick lather is necessary for
Cleanliness 1t isn't AS matter Of fart
an excessive use of soap clogs the noros
and prevents the sweat glands from, doirg
their full duty. In many cases irritatino-
skin disease has been caused in lust this
manner when an inferior soap has been
used.
IF you have your dishwater very hot and
add little borax to it, you won't need
any soap at all for that part of the domestic
programme. The glassware and silver vii,
be all the more sparkling without its use ;,