Milford chronicle., 1934-02-02
Women To Demonstrate
Soap Making At Home

A group of &c women representing
the several Home Demonstration
Clubs of Sussex county met in
Georgetown, in the Office of the
Home Demonstration Agent. Laura
b. Rutherford, Friday, January rs,
for the purpose of learning how to
make the hard "cold water soap"
for laundry purposes. These women,
whose names follow, will in turn
give the soap making demonstration
10 their respective Home Demon
stration Clubs at their regular meet
ings in February.
Names are listed according to club
community represented: Columbia,
Mrs. Pratt Cooper and Mrs. Mark
Cooper; Reliance, Mrs. Ada White
and Mrs. o. J. Wheatley; Owens Sta
tion, Mrs. Joy Hamstead and Mrs.
VIM. A. HOchstedler; Cokesbury.
Mrs. Granville Lambden and Mrs.
Linden Isaacs; Sycamore, Mrs. Da-
vid Boyce and Mrs E.-E Dukess
Hollymount, Mrs. John Stevenson
and Miss Cornelia Hurdle; Harbe-
son, Mrs. Ed. Veasey and Mrs. Sal
lie Thompson; Georgetown, Mrs.
VIM. Brumbley and Mrs. Miles Isa-
acs; Delmar, Mrs. c. c. West and
Mrs. f. Guy Hastings, who gave the
demonstration to the leaders. Other
women attending the demonstration
were: Mrs. r. +. Montney and Mrs.
Flossie Rust of Stockley; Mrs. A. T.
Redheffer, Mrs. Cora Prettyman and
Mrs. C. E. Locates of Harbeson;
Mrs. Nora Howard of Hollymount.
Two other women whose names
were not obtained also attended.
Many women, feeling a need for
saving, whenever and wherever
possible in their home management |
problems have decided that soap
making is one way, to help the saw
ing fund. 1t was estimated at this |
leader meeting that the amount of |
soc can be saved on every IS cakes |
made at home. This is true because |
rural women have excess hog and |
beef fat that can be used for the
soap making which costs them moth
ing. All they have to buy is the lye
which is 10c can. One can OF lye
will make Is cakes of soap In COM
bination with 6 pounds of rendered
fat. This makes the soap costing
less tina none cent a cake while
most laundry soap sell for five cents
except on special days. Women who
have been using home made soap
find that one cake of ii will wear
at least two cakes of the CONNER
cial soaps. which means that the
saving is double in such cases. Dur
ing the course of a year this saw
ing would mean quite a bit, espe-
cially in large families where a lot
Of soap is used.
These facts are being given be-
cause they are Of economic value to
the rural homemaker who can make
soap of good quality with very little
cost. II would not be recommended
In cases where excess fat Is not al
ready ON hand and the fat would
have TO be bought.
Some women may object to the
dea Of using home made soap be-
cause of its strOngness Of lye and
being hard on the hands, but fortu-
lately we do not use the old fash
oned recipes that were so strong of {
ye, but better proportions Of fat and |
ye are used which makes for a mild
soap which does not harm the hands /
Is the soaps of long ago did.
Women who are not members of {
lone Demonstration Clubs and are
in the soap making will {
lave the privilege of learning how,
they will attend the nearest Home
Demonstration Club during Febru-
iry. I
A meat canning demonstration I
vas also held, this week at the home 6
4 Albert Messick at COkesbury. Mr.. O
Iessick killed beef and decided to h
an most of it in order 10 have It '
for table use at o lower I
ost than 1t might be bought at dur n
ng the spring and summer season. a
10 a demonstration was made of the i
aiming and fifteen women attended s
he demonstration to learn the best
lethods for doing meat canning. 1t
as been recognized that canning Of G
ONE produced meats Is Of decided il
economic value to the rural home. Il
0 many people are using II as a L
leans Of saving for the financial u
udgets and increasing the balanced s.
,od budgets. S