Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-07-22

comes along asking impertinent ques- tons as to how many children I have, and my maiden name before I was married, and whether there's insanity In the family.
 'Tm sick and tired of answering such questions. If my old friends want to dig into my family history, I'll give them all the information they want, although I may consider their cOnundrums in bad taste, but when a perfect stranger comes along and asks me if do my own washing, I feel that the line must be drawn somewhere. Every jack in ofiee asks questions. It used to be that the assessor would come to the door politely, and inquire how many dogs we kept and take our, estimate of the value of our prop erty without looking as though he knew we ought to be prosecuted for perjury. But now he must know the color of your grandfathers side whis- kers, and if you tell him that you keep no dogs he goes out and looks under the house, and in the barn, and when he comes back he warns you that the penalties for giving false information are severe.
 'Mr. Curfew says that the next time the assessor comes, he Is going to throw him over the back fence and kick him down the alley for dis tance of seven blocks, and hope he'll keep his word"
 'T didn't mean to offend you" said the stranger. 'Tm introducing wash ing powder that saves half the labor and dispenses with soap altogether With this marvellous powder woman can do the weeks washing and have her clothes hung on the line, inside o1 two hours"
 SWell, mister, you take . packag' of your marvellous powder down tt the creek, and give yourself goot scrubbing, for you look as though yol had been fishing out of someDody'' dustbin. Your whiskers are fun O sawdust, and your face Is covere' with grime. If you were introducinl bituminous coal, there might be som excuse for your appearance, but man who Is selling washing powde ought to be like the driven snow, o nobody will have confidence In him.
 sAnd wouldn't have anything t do with your washing powder 1T yo offered to bring me wagopload 10 twenty cents. I make my own soa of I've and grease. and although isn't indorsed by the crowned head of Europe, or by prelates or vice pre- idents, it's the best soap ever mad and know the ingredients are who'll come. even if they don't compris barks and buds and healing herbs.
 "When use my own soap. kno the things I wesn won't be any u worse for #, 5ut the washing powde' sold by agents are made of dynami and lunar caustic, and a garment on washed with them will never be to use again.
 aLast spring ! was feeling too pot ly to make the usual batch or soa 50 ! DOuSuI Po~N0eS va powder from an agent who had rockets full of testimonials showi that he was a man of high moral chi acter. It happened that week. u all of MT. Curfew's white shirts we in the wash. MT. Curfew is very p' ticular about his shirts. They m' be as white as arctic snow, or the W he raves around the house Is a q grace. We'll, I wish you could ha
 seen those shirts after they w
 washed. They had an old gold col
 and have been getting yellower e'
 since, and MT. Curfew never sits oo
 but he speaks about 1t and maj
 things uncomfortable.
 "So you had better toddle all
 and sell your washing powder to 50
 woman who doesn't know how to ms
 good soap."
 WorId's Supply of Nitrates.